Cobscook Community Learning Center Receives Cash Award From The Federal Home Loan Bank
(LUBEC, ME) July 25, 2008 - Recently, the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston made a cash award of $1,000 through its Grants for New England Partnerships (GNP) program to Cobscook Community Learning Center on behalf of Bar Harbor Bank & Trust. Under the GNP program, eligible member institutions choose a nonprofit organization to receive the award. Bar Harbor Bank & Trust became eligible for participation in the program for 2008, when it successfully submitted and disbursed a long-term (greater than or equal to three years) Community Development Advance (CDA) application for this year.
In 1994 the GNP program was established by the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston to recognize the importance of partnerships between their member institutions and community-based nonprofit organizations in developing successful community investment initiatives. It is because of Cobscook Community Learning Center's important work in the community that Bar Harbor Bank & Trust chose them for this award.
The Cobscook Community Learning Center (CCLC) is a comprehensive learning facility that has emerged from local context, builds democracy and community, supports social justice, integrates the local environment, and creates innovative new visions of education in the Cobscook Bay region of Washington County. The CCLC is located on 10 Commissary Point Road in Trescott, Maine. For more information go to
Founded in 1887, Bar Harbor Bank & Trust (BHBT) is a community bank with 12 locations along the coast of Maine. They offer a full range of financial services for families, businesses, and non-profit organizations. Bar Harbor Bank & Trust is subsidiary of Bar Harbor Bankshares (AMEX:BHB). For more information call 207-288-3314 or go to www.bhbt.com
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Bar Harbor Bank & Trust employees visit Cobscook Community Learning Center to congratulate them on the $1,000 cash award received from the Federal Home Loan Bank.
Front row, left to right: Kevin Thompson (Director of Office Systems at CCLC), Stephanie Bailey (President of the CCLC Board of Directors), Kat Bailey, (CCLC Summer Intern), Cathy Planchart (Community Relations Officer at BHBT).
Back row, left to right: Penny Guisinger (Dir. Of Dev. and Communications at CCLC), Alan Furth (CCLC Exec. Dir.), Wayne Rice (ABLE participant at CCLC), Lorraine Rice (in front of Wayne, ABLE participant at CCLC), Derek Hayes (VP/Business Banking at BHBT) , Anne Pennell (Branch Relationship Manager at BHBT Machias), Kara McCrimmon (CCLC Director of Programming), and Pat Mallar (CCLC Finance Coordinator).
