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Citizens Bank donates 200 winter coats to Children’s Village in Philadelphia
Program serving working families in Chinatown to distribute coatsPHILADELPHIA (February 11, 2008) - Citizens Bank volunteers today donated 200 coats to Children’s Village, a childcare and aftercare program serving the working families of Chinatown. Citizens Bank volunteers distributed the warm, winter coats at the Holy Redeemer Catholic Church at 915 Vine St. in Philadelphia.
“We are pleased to be able to deliver these coats to children in need,” said Daniel K. Fitzpatrick, Citizens Bank President and CEO for Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. “Everyone deserves protection from the elements, especially the young, and we’re grateful to do our part to help some children stay warm during the winter months.”
Citizens Bank worked in conjunction with Operation Warm to obtain the coats. Through a $3,000 sponsorship from Citizens Bank, Operation Warm was able to purchase two styles of coats for girls and two styles of coats for boys ages 4 and under. The coats are in assorted colors so that children can select their favorite.
“On behalf of the families who use our services, I want to thank Citizens Bank for these wonderful coats,” said Mary Graham, Executive Director of Children’s Village. “Although we’ve had a mild winter, today’s colder weather is a reminder of how timely this donation will be for many families.”
Children’s Village was selected to receive the coats as an extension of Citizens Bank’s Champions in Action® program with the Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation.
About Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania
Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania is a state-chartered bank with dual headquarters in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. It has approximately 400 branches and more than 660 ATMs throughout Pennsylvania. It also operates 13 retail branches and 26 ATMs in southern New Jersey and a commercial loan office in Virginia. It is a subsidiary of Citizens Financial Group, Inc., a $159 billion commercial bank holding company headquartered in Providence, R.I.
Citizens Financial Group, through its subsidiaries, has more than 1,600 branches, 3,300 ATMs and 24,500 employees. CFG’s two bank subsidiaries are RBS Citizens, N.A. and Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania. They operate a 13-state branch network under the Citizens Bank brand in Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont, and the Charter One brand in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. CFG has non-branch retail and commercial offices in about 40 states. It is one of the 10 largest commercial banking companies in the United States ranked by assets and deposits. CFG is owned by RBS (The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc).
About Children’s Village
Founded in 1976, Children’s Village was one of the first Pennsylvania licensed child-care programs in Center City Philadelphia to respond to the needs of working parents. The private nonprofit organization’s mission is to provide high-quality early childhood education to young children and educational enrichment to school-age children in a safe, nurturing setting, while their parents work, while making high-quality child-care accessible to families at all economic levels. Children’s Village Child Care Center was recently granted reaccreditation by the National Association for the Education of Young Children, the national accreditation agency for early childhood programs, receiving 95 percent to 100 percent or better on program standards, making it one of the first times in Philadelphia that a child care center has attained such high levels of excellence.
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