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Our Community, Your eVote Program Nearly 6,000 votes, twice as many as last year, were cast online in The Provident Bank’s 11th annual Our Community, Your E-Vote program. The community’s votes determined how a $20,000 grant from The Provident Community Foundation was distributed among 33 non-profit organizations located within the bank’s market areas of Amesbury and Newburyport, Massachusetts, and Exeter, Hampton, Portsmouth and Seabrook, New Hampshire. Representatives of many of the organizations and bank staff attended a check presentation reception at The Provident Bank’s Market Square, Amesbury, branch on June 30, 2010. “Our Community, Your E-Vote is just one of our philanthropy programs and a creative way to engage our customers, friends and neighbors in supporting the work of these important organizations,” said Charlie Cullen, The Provident Bank president & CEO. This year’s participating organizations included: American Independence Museum; Amesbury Carriage Museum; Amesbury Education Foundation; Amesbury for Africa; Anna Jaques Community Health Foundation; Arts in Reach; Bartlett Museum; Boys & Girls Club of Lower Merrimack Valley; Child & Family Services, Chucky’s Fight; Cross Roads House; Families First; Firehouse Center for the Arts; Friends of Landry Stadium; Greater Newburyport YWCA; James Place Childcare Center; Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center; Krempels Brain Injury Foundation; Link House, Inc.; Lowell’s Boat Shop; New Heights; Newburyport Education Foundation; Opportunity Works; Our Neighbors’ Table; Pentucket Fine & Performing Arts Foundation; The Pettengill House; Richie McFarland Children’s Center; SeaCare Health Services; Seacoast Repertory Theater; Seacoast Youth Services; Squamscott Community Commons; Turning Point; and the Whittier Home. |