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Doing Good Deeds
We like to pat the backs of bankers every once in awhile in this newsletter for the good deeds the industry does with its philanthropic efforts. Now we'll pat a bank association and its members' spouses.
America's Community Bankers' Housing Partners
division presented a hefty $150,000 during its convention this year to Southwest Women Working Together, a Chicago-based effort to provide shelter and jobs skills training to homeless and battered women. Southwest Women proclaimed its delight at receiving the largest donation it had ever received in its 23-year history, and said it will enable the group to open a computer learning center and kick off a campaign to build new facilities.
Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, on hand when ACB presented the check Nov. 2, 1998, declared the day America's Community Bankers Day.
Housing Partners was formed in 1991 by a group of ACB spouses who decided they wanted to become active in carrying on a banking tradition of raising money for housing-related causes by doing so in cities in which the association holds conventions.
Our hats are off to you, ACB Housing Partners, for a job well done!
Copyright © 1998 Bankers' Hotline. Originally appeared in Bankers' Hotline, Vol. 8, No. 12, 12/98
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