Ion Bank Foundation Announces Community Awards Program Winners

Naugatuck CT

12 April, 2021

1:32 PM

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Press release from Ion Bank: April 12, 2021 The Ion Bank Foundation announced the winners of its Community Awards Program. They received 2,732 customer votes for 201 non-profit organizations, which allowed them to award grants totaling $70,025. The program, which kicked off in February, encouraged Ion Bank customers to vote for a local charity of their choice to receive a grant from the Foundation. "This program is a wonderful collaboration between our customers, Foundation and the organizations that our customers feel have the most impact to local communities," said David Rotatori, Ion Bank President and CEO. "Our customers are very passionate about their local charities and this program is a wonderful way for them to recognize those organizations and have a say in how our Foundation's funds are distributed." 2021 Ion Bank Foundation Community Awards Program Winners St. Francis of Assisi Church $3,275 Middlebury Senior Center $1,900 Brass City Rescue Alliance $1,350 Animals for Life $1,325 Palace Theater $1,250 St. Anthony Church $1,250 Connecticut Food Bank $1,200 ACES Education Foundation $1,150 Seymour Pink Inc. $1,025 Jane Doe No More, Inc. $925 Naugatuck United Methodist Church $925 Seven Angels Theatre $925 Whiskers Pet Rescue Inc. $925 Better Days Rescue Fund $900 Hidden Acres Therapeutic Riding Center $900 Kitty Kat Rescue $900 Ansonia Rotary Club $875 Thank Dog Rescue $825 MVFD Ladies Auxiliary $800 Saint Vincent Ferrer Church $775 Naugatuck High School Swimming and Diving $750 Safe Haven of Greater Waterbury $750 Cheshire Strawberry Festival - First Congregational Church $725 Oxford United Church of Christ Congregational $725 Peter J. Foley Little League Inc. $725 St. Vincent De Paul Mission of Waterbury, Inc. $725 Hope Pregnancy Center $700 Prospect Congregational Church $700 St. Bridget School $700 Howard Whittemore Memorial Library $675 Theresa's Battleship Foundation, Inc. $675 Franciscan Life Center Network Inc. $600 Literacy Volunteers of Greater Waterbury $600 Naugatuck Pop Warner $600 Seymour C.A.R.E.S $575 St. John the Evangelist School $575 Three Saints Orthodox Church $575 Children's Community School $550 Friends of the Beacon Falls Library $550 Naugatuck YMCA $550 St. John of the Cross Mission Trip $550 Naugatuck Special Olympics $525 Oxford Special Olympics $525 Beacon Falls Congregational Church $500 Connecticut Partnership for Children, Inc. $500 Easter Seals Greater Waterbury $500 House of Heroes Connecticut $500 Ecumenical Food Bank $475 Flanders Nature Center & Land Trust $475 Naugatuck Youth Services $475 Pomperaug River Watershed Coalition $475 Team Beta - Nonnewaug High School $475 Foster and Forever Pet Rescue, Inc. $450 Little Britches $425 NAMI Waterbury $425 Meriden Historical Society, Inc. $400 NEON Naugatuck Ecumenical Outreach Network $400 Leukemia and Lymphoma Society $375 Naugatuck Senior Center $375 Oxford Historical Society, Inc. $375 The Animal Haven, Inc. $375 Acts 4 Ministry, Inc. $350 Hillside Covenant Church $350 Naugatuck Historical Society $350 St. George's Episcopal Church $350 Where the Love Is, Inc. $350 Audubon Center Bent of the River $325 Cheshire Community Food Pantry, Inc. $325 Griffin Hospital $325 St. Joseph Church $325 St. Peter Episcopal Church $325 TEAM, Inc. $325 The Congregational Church of Naugatuck $325 The Lutheran Home of Southbury $325 The Susie Foundation $325 Boy Scout Troop 138 $300 Friends of the Ansonia Nature Center, Inc. $300 Greater Waterbury Interfaith Ministries $300 Housatonic Council Inc., Boy Scouts of America $300 United Way of Naugatuck & Beacon Falls $300 Woodbury Lions Club Foundation, Inc. $300 American Legion Post 17 $275 Boys & Girls Club of Meriden $275 Cross Street Intermediate School PTO $275 Immanuel Lutheran Church $275 Midstate Arc, Inc. $275 National Honor Society of Naugatuck High School, Joan Dillon Wertzonger Chapter $275 Oxford Land Trust $275 Waterbury Arc $275 Woodbury-Bethlehem Community Music Foundation, Inc. $275 Bethany Historical Society $250 Connecticut Rivers Council, BSA $250 Madre Latina Organization Inc. $250 Middlebury Historical Society, Inc. $250 Naugatuck Garden Club $250 Naugatuck Lions Club $250 St. Peter & Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church $250 The River Foursquare Church $250 Woodbury Scholarship Fund Dollars for Scholars $250 Coalition for a Sustainable Cheshire $225 Friends of the Oxford Library $225 Friends of Woodbury Senior Community Center, Inc. $225 GIL Foundation, Inc. $225 Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians $225 Mattatuck Museum $225 Naugatuck Rotary $225 Project Purple $225 StayWell Health Care, Inc. $225 The Cove Center for Grieving Children $225 Waterbury Symphony Orchestra $225 Brass City Harvest Inc. $200 Friends of the Ansonia Library $200 Girls Inc. of Western Connecticut $200 Kellys Kids Inc. $200 Master's Table Community Meals $200 United Church of Christ, Southbury $200 Boys & Girls Club of Greater Waterbury $175 Community Theater at Woodbury $175 Friends of the Meriden Public Library $175 Main Street Ballet Company $175 Master's Manna, Inc. $175 Meriden YMCA $175 New Horizons Village $175 Pinebrook City Assembly of God $175 Rotary Club of Farmington $175 Safe Families for Children – Connecticut $175 Family Intervention Center, Inc. $150 Gaylord Hospital $150 Iwo Jima Memorial Historical Foundation Inc. $150 Literacy Volunteers of Greater New Haven $150 Naugatuck Beautification $150 Phoenix Stage Company $150 Police Activity League of Waterbury, Inc. (PAL) $150 Random Hacks of Kindness Junior $150 Trout Unlimited Naugatuck Pomperaug Chapter 281 $150 Waterbury Bridge To Success Community Partnership $150 Annie C. Courtney Foundation $125 Christ Episcopal Church $125 Girls Inc. of Meriden $125 Naugatuck Community Choir $125 Naugatuck Education Foundation $125 Seymour Tradition $125 United Way of Greater Waterbury $125 Waterbury Exchange Club Charitable Foundation $125 Abilities Without Boundaries $100 Cheshire Community YMCA $100 Cheshire Food Drive, Inc. $100 Cheshire Land Trust $100 Christmas in the Village $100 Cross of Christ Lutheran Church $100 First Congregational Church of Meriden $100 Gallery 53/Arts & Crafts Association of Meriden, Inc. $100 Girl Scouts of Connecticut $100 Mariachi Academy of New England $100 Neighborhood Housing Services of Waterbury $100 SCOW (Comunidad Hispana de Wallingford) $100 The Panther Project - FRC Robotics Team 2064 $100 The Simon Foundation Inc. $100 Tribury Rotary Club of Southbury, Middlebury, Woodbury $100 Watertown Historical Society $100 Woodland Church of Christ $100 Are You Dense, Inc. $100 Camp Rising Sun $100 Greater Waterbury Campership Fund $100 This press release was produced by Ion Bank. 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