Citizens Bank Foundation recently made a major investment in Lund Family Center s work to improve the educational outcomes for pregnant or parenting young women. The Foundation issued a $5,000 grant for Lund s New Horizons Education program, which annually offers high school, G.E.D. education and college support to more than 40 pregnant or parenting young women ages 12 to 27.
Cathleen Schmidt, President of Citizens Bank in Vermont, commented on the grant saying, The Lund Family Center is a vital part of our community. The New Horizons Education Program provides women with a flexible classroom atmosphere helping build a new beginning for themselves and their children. We at Citizens Bank are proud to support Lund and the New Horizons program.
At the New Horizons Honoring Ceremony last June, Lund celebrated the achievements of fifteen college students, nine of whom took college classes for high school credit; seven high school graduates; two GED grads; and twelve students who transitioned back to their sending schools or continued their coursework at Lund through the summer.
Executive Director Barbara Rachelson remarked, We are so grateful to Citizens Bank Foundation for believing in our work and the power of education to lift women and children out of poverty and build better lives for themselves and their communities. This grant is just one way in which Citizens Bank supports Lund. We appreciate the Bank s partnership through volunteer involvement, sharing of bank resources and help telling our story to a broader audience. Citizens is a true partner in our work to strengthen children and families.
About the Citizens Bank Foundation
Citizens Bank Foundation is a subsidiary of the Citizens Charitable Foundation, which is a charitable contributions vehicle of Citizens Financial Group, Inc., RBS Citizens, N.A. and Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania. The foundation s support is focused on housing, community development and basic human needs. CFG s Web site is citizensbank.com.
About Lund Family Center
Commemorating 120 years of strengthening families in 2010, Lund Family Center annually serves more than 4,000 children and family members. Lund s work focuses on three goals: strengthening families, reducing child abuse and neglect, and helping to create new families through adoption. Its mission is to help children thrive by serving families with children, pregnant or parenting teens and young adults, and adoptive families.
Source: Lund. 5.4.2010
Citizens Bank Foundation invests $5,000 in Lund Family Center's education program
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