{"id":18721,"date":"2016-02-04T17:49:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T22:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/2016\/02\/ballston-spa-national-bank-teams-up-with-customers-to-raise-7500-for-local-food-pantries.html"},"modified":"2017-11-08T13:46:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T18:46:19","slug":"ballston-spa-national-bank-teams-up-with-customers-to-raise-7500-for-local-food-pantries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/2016\/02\/ballston-spa-national-bank-teams-up-with-customers-to-raise-7500-for-local-food-pantries\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballston Spa National Bank Teams Up With Customers To Raise $7,500 For Local Food Pantries"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ballston Spa National Bank<\/strong> recently Along with the food collected during the The food pantries benefitting from the Funds for 11 of the food pantries were Ballston Spa National Bank recently partnered with bank customers to provide assistance to area food pantries. Along with the food collected during the bank's sixth annual food drive, customers gave nearly $5,000 in monetary donations and in response, BSNB matched…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-briefs"],"yoast_head":"\r\n
\npartnered with bank customers to provide
\nassistance to area food pantries.<\/p>\n
\nbank’s sixth annual food drive, customers gave
\nnearly $5,000 in monetary donations and in
\nresponse, BSNB matched more than $2,500.
\nThe combined total of nearly $7,500 benefits
\n12 organizations located across the region.<\/p>\n
\nbank’s efforts this year include: Christ Episcopal
\nChurch, Ballston Spa; First Baptist Church,
\nBallston Spa; United Methodist Church,
\nBallston Spa; Saratoga County Economic Opportunity
\nCouncil; CAPTAIN Food Pantry;
\nMalta Community Center; Greenfield Food
\nPantry; United Methodist Church, Burnt Hills;
\nShenendehowa Helping Hands Food Pantry;
\nGreater Galway Community Services Association;
\nStillwater United Church; Wilton Food
\nPantry; and City Mission of Schenectady.<\/p>\n
\nrecently delivered by BSNB staff members
\nto the Regional Food Bank of Northeastern
\nNew York. By partnering with the Regional
\nFood Bank, these member agencies are able
\nto receive approximately $11 worth of food
\nfor every $1 donated. Organizations not partnering
\nwith the Regional Food Bank received
\ntheir funds directly. Collected food items were
\ndelivered to designated food pantries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"