Community Relations

Keeping the community helpers fed

The Shalom Center of Interfaith Network provides the economically challenged citizens of Kenosha County, Wis., with shelter, guidance, and importantly, food. In a turn of the table, a team from the Kenosha branch of Brookfield, Wis.-based North Shore Bank surprised the near-50 person staff of the Center with pizza, plus a couple of surprises. [Continue]

North Dakota bank funds tech for distance learners

In March, Joy Kitzan, senior vice president Dakota Community Bank & Trust, Hebron, N.D., received a call from the principal of her local K-12 school with a need. North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum had just directed educators to put together a distance learning program for the state’s schoolchildren in response to the coronavirus pandemic. They had about two weeks to plan. [Continue]

First Farmers gives food banks a boost

Converse, Ind.-based First Farmers Bank & Trust, in partnership with pork producers and processors throughout the state, has initiated a direct assistance program to provide protein to food banks throughout Indiana and eastern Illinois. [Continue]