BANK FOUNDATION MAKES DONATIONS TO LOCAL HOSPITALS
and Rod Acosta, M.D., chief medical officer; all from Stamford Health Hospital.
First County Bank Foundation donated $5,000 to each of the five local Fairfield County community hospitals in an effort to support the needs of frontline health care workers who were and continue to be at the forefront of the Covid-19 pandemic. The frontline health care workers will also be honored with the foundation”™s annual Reyno A. Giallongo Community Legacy Award, which is named after First County Bank”™s retired chairman and CEO, who during his tenure exemplified the bank”™s culture of giving back to the community.
The following hospitals received the donations: Bridgeport Hospital, Greenwich Hospital, Norwalk Hospital, Stamford Hospital and St. Vincent”™s Hospital in Bridgeport.
The funding amount of $25,000 is in addition to a $50,000 donation made earlier in the year to select local shelters and food pantries for Covid-19 relief and the nearly $500,000 in grants recently provided to more than 90 local nonprofits through the foundation”™s annual CommunityFirst Grant Program.
Established in 2001 in honor of the bank”™s 150th anniversary, First County Bank
Foundation was created to distribute funds annually to nonprofit organizations that support community and economic development among other quality-of-life programs. communities it serves. Headquartered in Stamford for more than 165 years, First County is an independent mutual community bank with 16 branches in Stamford, Norwalk, Darien, Greenwich, Fairfield, New Canaan and Westport.