Bristol County Savings Bank Charitable Foundation awards $80K in grants to Pawtucket nonprofits

BRISTOL COUNTY SAVINGS BANK, through its charitable foundation, recently presented $80,000 in grants to 12 Pawtucket-area nonprofit organizations. / COURTESY BRISTOL COUNTY SAVINGS BANK
BRISTOL COUNTY SAVINGS BANK, through its charitable foundation, recently presented $80,000 in grants to 12 Pawtucket-area nonprofit organizations. / COURTESY BRISTOL COUNTY SAVINGS BANK

PAWTUCKET – Bristol County Savings Bank, through its charitable foundation, awarded grants totaling $80,000 to 12 Pawtucket-area nonprofit organizations last week during a ceremony at the Pawtucket Country Club on March 30.

The following organizations were presented checks: Blackstone Valley Community Action Program ($5,000); Friends of the Pawtucket Public Library ($5,000); Housing Network of Rhode Island ($6,000); Jeanne Jugan Residence of the Little Sisters of the Poor ($4,900); Leon Mathieu Senior Center c/o Pawtucket’s Business Development Corporation ($2,700); Providence Children’s Museum ($5,000); Reach Out and Read Rhode Island ($2,500); Rhode Island Nurses Institute Middle College Charter High School ($25,000); Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra & Music School ($2,500); St. Cecilia School ($5,400); The Learning Community Charter School ($6,000); and The Pawtucket Foundation ($10,000).

Awards were presented by Patrick J. Murray Jr., president of the BCSCF and president and CEO of BCSB, and Donald Grebien, mayor of Pawtucket. Also participating were representatives from the BCSCF-Pawtucket Advisory Board and the bank’s Pawtucket branch.

“Being a community bank, one of our core tenets is to invest in the neighborhoods we serve,” said Patrick J. Murray Jr., president of Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation and president and CEO of Bristol County Savings Bank. “We continue to be inspired by all the organizations we are supporting, specifically the good work they are doing in Pawtucket and the surrounding community.”

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Grebien said, “I want to thank our valued partners from Bristol County Savings Bank for being great corporate citizens in the Pawtucket community. Their commitment to education, literacy, economic development and affordable housing are evident and their efforts are greatly appreciated by the city of Pawtucket.”

BCSB established the Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation – Pawtucket Advisory Board at the grand opening of the bank’s Pawtucket office in 2001 in an effort to demonstrate the bank’s commitment to its new market. At that time, $1 million was contributed to the foundation to provide grants to 501c(3) organizations which operate exclusively for charitable purposes within Pawtucket.

The BCSCF has donated more than $2.5 million to organizations in the Pawtucket area since its inception in 1996 as part of the bank’s 150th anniversary celebration. Its purpose is to fund needs that contribute to the economic and the social well-being of the people and institutions located in the greater Attleboro/Taunton region, greater New Bedford/Dartmouth region and the Fall River region of Massachusetts, as well as the Pawtucket region, with particular emphasis on the areas of education and literacy, economic-development and housing for the low- to moderate-income population. Since the foundation began, close to $16 million has been committed to hundreds of nonprofit organizations.

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