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BMO HARRIS BANK EMPLOYEES HELP FEED KIDS
Sedona Employees Work Together for Annual Volunteer Day
SEDONA, AZ (June 11, 2013) – BMO Harris Bank employees in Sedona took time away from the office recently to help feed hungry childr en in Haiti. Working with the Verde Valley chapter of Kids Against Hunger, they helped package meals that will feed nearly 3,000 hungry children.
Kids Against Hunger is a humanitarian food-aid organization whose goal is to significantly reduce the number of hungry children in the USA and to feed starving children throughout the world. Last year, the organization's food packing centers across the country packaged more than 40 million meals for children and their families around the world.
"We are committed to supporting our community through the giving of our employees' time and talents as well as our corporate financial resources," said BMO Harris Bank Arizona President Steve Johnson. "Each year our employees look forward to the day we set aside to help others."
Launched in 2001, BMO Volunteer Day has grown to include approximately 5,600 employees participating in more than 470 projects in communities across the U.S. and Canada, including activities to benefit children and youth organizations, elder care, food banks, community housing, health care facilities, family resource centers, parks and recreational facilities, military personnel, relief organizations and homeless shelters.
"Volunteer Day is just another demonstration of our corporate philanthropy and the generous work our employees perform year-round in our communities," added Johnson.
For more information about Kid's Against Hunger visit: http://kidsagainsthunger.org/
For additional information about how BMO Harris Bank supports the community, click: HERE.
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BMO Harris Bank provides a broad range of personal banking products and solutions through over 600 branches and approximately 1,300 ATMs in Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, Nevada, Arizona and Florida. BMO Harris Bank's commercial banki
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