DALLAS, TX (December 14, 2010) – Comerica Bank today opened its 95th full-service banking center in Texas, its I-20 & Wheatland location, at 2875 Wheatland Road in Dallas. The new banking center is the fifth Comerica location in South Dallas, and the third to be built in the area since 2009. To help celebrate the grand opening, Comerica donated $10,000 to Project Still I Rise, a local non-profit that provides mentoring and leadership development programs for South Dallas youth, to purchase laptops for students of low and moderate income families that have excelled both inside and outside the classroom.
Pat Faubion, Comerica’s Texas Market President, along with Irv Ashford, Comerica’s Senior Vice President of Community Development & External Affairs, and Tennell Atkins, Dallas City Councilmember for District 8, handed out the laptop computers and new backpacks to the surprised students during a holiday gifting ceremony at Comerica’s newest banking center.
“We believe in the work that Project Still I Rise is doing to empower youth in the South Dallas community, and to show our support, we decided to give laptops to their top 25 students to help them be more successful in their academic endeavors,” said J. Patrick “Pat” Faubion, Comerica’s Texas Market President. “This holiday gift is just one way that Comerica is helping shape a better future for South Dallas.”
“We are grateful Comerica Bank stepped up to recognize these very deserving students, the majority of whom do not have computers in their homes,” said Kevin Mondy, Executive Director of Project Still I Rise. “My kids are bright, motivated students with endless potential, but many of them don’t have access to educational tools, like computers, that so many of us take for granted. There is no doubt that Comerica’s computer gift will make an immediate impact on their schoolwork and personal development.”
Comerica’s Commitment to the Community
The charitable donation to Project Still I Rise marks the third time in recent months that Comerica Bank collaborated with a Dallas community-focused non-profit to serve a timely, critical need. In November, Comerica donated $10,000 to the Exchange Club of East Dallas to purchase winter coats for elementary school children, and this past August, Comerica donated $50,000 to Friends of the Dallas Public Library to purchase financial literacy materials, including books, audio books and DVDs, for two Southern Dallas library branches designated as greatly in-need.
About Comerica
Comerica Bank is the commercial banking subsidiary of Comerica Incorporated (NYSE: CMA), the largest banking company headquartered in Texas, and strategically aligned by three business segments: The Business Bank, The Retail Bank, and Wealth & Institutional Management. Comerica focuses on relationships, and helping people and businesses be successful. In addition to Dallas, Houston and Austin, Texas, Comerica Bank locations can be found in Arizona, California, Florida and Michigan, with select businesses operating in several other states, as well as in Canada and Mexico. Comerica reported total assets of $55.0 billion at September 30, 2010. To receive e-mail alerts of breaking Comerica news, go to http://www.comerica.com/newsalerts.
About Project Still I Rise
Project Still I Rise is a community-based 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2002 to provide high quality, high impact programming to the youth of Southern Dallas students attending public schools. By offering programs like Project Excel, Project Manhood Leadership Institute and the Youth Entrepreneurial Academy, Project Still I Rise fulfills its mission to empower today’s youth for tomorrow’s opportunities through academic, mentoring and leadership development in one of our city’s most challenged areas. For more information, please visit http://www.psir.org.
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