Business News – Kennebunk Savings donations reach $1.8 million in 2022

The Kennebunk Savings Community Promise annual giving program is looking back on the year in donations to local nonprofit organizations; in 2022, contributions totaled $1.8 million, with 362 groups receiving funds. According to a Feb. 15 news release, “The Community Promise is a source of pride for the mutually-owned bank and its employees.” Kennebunk Savings’ employees Jess Owens and Nancy Caron volunteer at a Special Surfers event. Courtesy photo “We see our communities as our stockholders,” said Bradford C. Paige, president and CEO. “The Community Promise is central to our purpose and it is part of our identity to be as involved as we are.” Among the bank’s donations was a season-long sponsorship of the New Hampshire Theatre Project, a community-minded arts nonprofit in Portsmouth, New Hampshire’s West End. “The Kennebunk Savings Season Sponsorship is invaluable to New Hampshire Theatre Project,” said Genevieve Aichele, the theatre group’s executive director, in the email. “Ticket fees only cover 30 percent of a production’s cost, even less now with audiences slow to return after COVID. Without sponsors like Kennebunk Savings, we could never produce the high-quality, thought-provoking performances for which New Hampshire Theatre Project is known.” The bank’s donation also underwrites the […]

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