LOS ANGELES, Sept. 22, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- City National Bank today announced that with the help of its colleagues the bank collected more than 28,000 school supplies for its 2nd Annual Back-to-School Supplies Drive held last month. The bank donated these school supplies to 17 elementary schools and a nonprofit group in California, Nevada, New York and Tennessee.
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Last year, a group of colleagues in the Banking and Investment Services division of City National embarked on a "Giving Campaign" that included the bank's first ever bank-wide Back-to-School Supplies Drive. Through the dedication of Angela Day, Gina Moore and Mae Lee Haymon, bank colleagues who served as the Back-to-School Supplies Drive Coordinators, the bank was able to surpass last year's total by 8,000 items.
The school supplies collected and donated by the bank this year included calculators, erasers, highlighters, pencil boxes, round-tip scissors, packs of wide ruled paper, colored pencils, folders, notebooks, pencil sharpeners, rulers, boxes of crayons, glue sticks, pencils, pens, three-ring binders, and more. In addition to these supplies, bank colleagues donated countless hours of their time packaging and delivering these supplies to the various schools.
"We are very proud of our colleagues and the generosity they continually display in helping our communities, especially during these challenging economic times," said Jennifer Nickerson, vice president, community relations manager for City National. "Even though this is only the second year that we've done a bank-wide back-to-school supply drive, we collected a record number of school supplies for this year's event."
The elementary schools and nonprofit receiving supplies are as follows:
California
- Winnetka Elementary School, Canoga Park
- Share Our Selves, Costa Mesa
- Academia Moderna Charter School, Los Angeles
- Carthay Center Elementary School, Los Angeles
- 10th Street Elementary School, Los Angeles
- Lincoln Elementary School, Oakland
- Rio Linda Elementary School, Oxnard
- Telfair Elementary School, Pacoima
- Foothill Elementary School, Riverside
- Golden Hill Elementary School, San Diego
- Sunnyside Elementary School, San Francisco
- Clyde Arbuckle Elementary School, San Jose
Nevada
- Fremont Elementary School, Carson City
- Jydstrup Elementary School, Las Vegas
- Elmcrest Elementary School, Reno
New York
- Hyde Leadership Charter School, Bronx
- Harlem Link Charter School, Manhattan
Tennessee
- Carter Lawrence Elementary School, Nashville
"We're already looking forward to next year's school supplies drive and hopefully increasing the amount of supplies we collect so we can help even more schools throughout our footprint," said Richard Shier, executive vice president, director of Banking and Investment Services for City National. "With all of the budget cuts in state education, the private sector has an exceptional opportunity to become more involved in helping our children receive the supplies they need to succeed in the classroom."
About City National
City National Bank is the wholly owned subsidiary of City National Corporation (NYSE:CYN). It is backed by $22.5 billion in total assets, and provides banking, investment and trust services through 79 offices, including 16 full-service regional centers, in Southern California, the San Francisco Bay Area, Nevada, New York City and Nashville, Tenn. The company and its investment affiliates manage or administer $58.5 billion in client investment assets, including more than $36 billion under direct management.
City National has 10 branch offices in Nevada, including six in Las Vegas and one each in North Las Vegas, Reno, Carson City and Minden. The bank also has a loan production office at Stateline in South Lake Tahoe.
For more information about City National, visit the company's Website at cnb.com.
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