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Kennebunk Savings Begins Community Investment Ballot Deliveries

Kennebunk Savings Begins Community Investment Ballot Deliveries
Kennebunk, Maine – 07/17/2009 – For fourteen years Kennebunk Savings has asked its customers to help decide where 20% of its Community Investment Program budget should go. This year customers voted in record numbers with nearly 7,200 customers helping to decide which nonprofits to help fund. Representing the largest number of votes with nearly ten percent of all votes, the Animal Welfare Society received a check for $7,865. Now Kennebunk Savings Officers are out delivering the checks to many of the nonprofits who received votes.

Brad Paige, Kennebunk Savings President and CEO, spoke about visiting the nonprofit organizations, “We truly enjoy this part of the year, when we get out to deliver unsolicited checks to our area nonprofit organizations. Over 220 organizations will be receiving funds from this program in 2009. We’re proud to have pioneered the Community Investment Ballot, which is just one part of our overall Community Investment Program. Through the Program, we have contributed over $6 million to area nonprofit organizations since 1994. We’ll be busy delivering the over 200 checks throughout York County in the next few weeks!”

According to Steve Jacobsen, Executive Director for the Animal Welfare Society, “We are humbled to be the top recipient of the Ballot vote. This funding also serves to reaffirm the work we’re doing, and it’ll be exceptionally useful this year due to the increase in the number of people who are unable to afford to care for their animals. We think our constituents know, too, that funds from the Kennebunk Savings Ballot go toward our general operations fund, which provides for the many animals in our shelter.” In 2008 the Animal Welfare Society placed approximately 2,750 animals in homes, just under 1,000 dogs, more than 1,500 cats and roughly 250 small animals.

The other top recipients of the Bank’s Community Investment Ballot include: Another Chance Animal Rescue, Center for Wildlife, Safe Haven Animal Shelter – Wells, York Community Food Pantry, York Hospital, Kennebunk Community Food Pantry, Caring Unlimited, Child Abuse Prevention Council, and Footprints Food Pantry. More customers voted for food pantries this year, as well as for organizations that provide human services. Those organizations received 46% of the ballot funding.

For more about the Animal Welfare Society, www.animalwelfaresociety.org. For more information about Kennebunk Savings, www.kennebunksavings.com

For more information contact:
Heather Harris
Community Relations Manager
Kennebunk Savings Bank
1-800-339-6573.

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