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PUTNAM — In 2010 Putnam Bank and the Putnam Bank Foundation donated more than $75,000 to local non-profits groups, and the 2011 effort, titled “Defining Success,” is already underway.
Thomas A. Borner, Putnam Bank CEO, said, “Our effort never stops: we reach out to help in some way almost daily. Putnam Bank is a community bank, and we make it a priority to find creative and effective ways to help our communities. It is important to us that we take an active role in helping to make the lives of the people we serve better.”
The goal of Putnam Bank’s charitable giving program is to provide consistent and meaningful support to non-profit groups that work in northeast Connecticut. Among the dozens of local non-profits that Putnam Bank helped to support in 2010 are: Relay For Life, Day Kimball Hospital, the Deary Memorial Road Race, Nutmeg Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Putnam Parks and Recreation, Quinebaug Valley Community College, Performing Arts of Northeast Connecticut, The Last Green Valley, the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, TEEG, Little League organizations in Griswold, Plainfield, Putnam, Pomfret and Norwich, and many more organizations.
In addition to providing funding, Putnam Bank and its employees find creative ways to raise awareness and support for various community-improvement programs that help the bank’s friends and neighbors who need it most.
The 2010 effort included the whole team wearing pink to help raise awareness and funds for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, collecting and donating toys and cash contributions, which are matched, through the bank’s “Food and Funds” holiday efforts, and taking a chilly dip into cold water to raise money for local food banks. Staff at the bank also opted to pass on exchanging Christmas gifts among themselves and instead donated much-needed items to help Good Grief Children’s Bereavement Group, a support network for children and their accompanying adults who have lost a loved one.