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Charter One Bank to launch Tools for School program in Ohio
Three-week campaign aimed at filling 1,200 backpacks with school supplies for local disadvantaged children in time for schoolCLEVELAND (July 11, 2006) - Charter One Bank will launch Tools for School, an initiative to collect new school supplies for 1,200 Cleveland children. The program will make going back to school a more exciting time this year for disadvantaged children.
Pencils, paper, folders, glue, safety scissors and a variety of other new school supplies may be dropped off at Charter One Bank branches in Cuyahoga County between July 11 and August 4. The supplies will be used to fill 1,200 new backpacks purchased by the bank. The backpacks will be distributed to Cleveland children in grades K to 6 through the Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers Association.
“Many of us are fortunate enough to remember the feeling of excitement and anticipation that came every summer from preparing to return to school,” said Ned Handy, President and CEO of Charter One Bank, Ohio. “Unfortunately, there are thousands of local children who never know that feeling because for them, school supplies are a luxury. Charter One hopes to make the back-to-school anticipation a little more exciting for 1,200 Cleveland schoolchildren by giving them the tools they need to succeed in school this year.”
Allison Wallace, Executive Director of the Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers Association, said: “This campaign will go a long way toward getting the school year off to a great start, certainly for our children, but also for the schools they attend and the neighborhoods where they live. Charter One is fulfilling a need that most people take for granted. The children we serve will definitely have an improved outlook on returning to school in August.”
The “Tools for School” program was launched by Charter One Bank’s parent company, Citizens Financial Group, which offers the program in several of the markets it serves throughout its 13-state footprint.
About Charter One Bank, N.A.
Charter One Bank, N.A., is a $41 billion bank operating in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. It has 480 branches and more than 800 ATMs. It has 166 branches and 210 ATMs in Ohio. Charter One is a subsidiary of Citizens Financial Group, Inc., a $155 billion commercial bank holding company headquartered in Providence, R.I. Citizens has more than 1,600 branches, approximately 3,700 ATMs and more than 26,000 employees in a 13-state retail branch network and has non-branch retail and commercial offices in about 40 states. Citizens is the eighth-largest commercial banking company in the United States ranked by deposits as of September 30, 2005. Citizens is owned by RBS (The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc).
About the Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers Association
The Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers Association (NCA) is a private non-profit umbrella organization comprised of 18 members and four associate members, all neighborhood-based social service organizations. Since 1963, NCA has worked collectively with its member centers providing technical support and assistance to strengthen the centers’ capacities. The member centers provide programs for the neighborhoods including early childhood education and head start, in- and after-school youth activities, senior centers and intergenerational programs, community organizing through street clubs and advocacy programs, housing and economic development, child abuse and drug abuse prevention programs, cultural arts, recreation, summer camps, adult basic education and literacy and summer employment programs. NCA’s mission is to strengthen greater Cleveland neighborhoods through social service delivery and public education, and to support the social, economic and political participation of its neighbors.
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