WESTERLY, R.I., Oct. 13,
2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Washington Trust Company
("Washington Trust," "The Bank") today announced that it is
partnering with 20 public middle and high schools throughout
Rhode Island to offer free
financial education software and classroom materials for the
2023-2024 school year.
Teachers at partner schools can access digital courses,
articles, financial calculators, interactive coaching sessions and
more, and can also order physical workbooks to supplement classroom
learning. In addition to these free resources, Washington Trust
employees are available to provide additional support, including
in-classroom presentations.
Washington Trust is also the first and only Bank in Rhode Island to partner with Banzai, Inc. to
offer a comprehensive Financial Wellness Center, now available in
six languages, on their website. Visitors to the Financial Wellness
Center are able to access all content in six different languages
including Spanish, French, Mandarin, Tagalog, Vietnamese, and
English.
"Washington Trust is committed to ensuring that all students,
parents, and community members have the tools that they need to
achieve economic empowerment," said Edward O. "Ned" Handy III,
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Washington Trust. "We're
thrilled to partner with schools throughout our footprint in
Rhode Island to bring these
dynamic resources into the classroom, and are proud to be improving
access to our Financial Wellness Center by offering the content in
several languages to meet the diverse needs of the communities that
we serve."
Washington Trust has partnered with public middle and high
schools throughout RI, including: Central High School (Providence), Charles
Shea High School (Pawtucket), Classical High School
(Providence), Coventry High School
(Coventry), Cranston High School East (Cranston),
Cranston High School West
(Cranston), Cumberland High School (Cumberland), East Greenwich High School
(East Greenwich), East Providence
High School (East Providence),
Hugh B Bain Middle School (Cranston), Johnston Senior High School
(Johnston), Mount Pleasant High
School (Providence), Narragansett
High School (Narragansett), North
Kingstown Senior High School (North
Kingstown), North Providence High School (North Providence), Pilgrim High School
(Warwick), San Miguel School
(Providence), Toll Gate High
School (Warwick), William E. Tolman High School (Pawtucket) and Woonsocket High School
(Woonsocket).
The Bank also partners with several nonprofit organizations to
provide these free financial education resources to support the
organizations' financial literacy programming efforts, including
Amos House, Literacy Volunteers of
Kent County, and Literacy
Volunteers of Washington
County.
For more information about partnering with Washington Trust to
offer financial literacy tools & resources to your students or
clients, contact Jillian Balzano,
Washington Trust Community Relations Officer at
jrbalzano@washtrust.com.
ABOUT WASHINGTON
TRUST®
Founded in 1800, Washington Trust is recognized as the
oldest community bank in the nation, the largest state-chartered
bank headquartered in Rhode Island
and one of the Northeast's premier financial services companies.
Washington Trust values its role as a community bank and is
committed to helping the people, businesses, and organizations of
New England improve their financial lives. The Bank offers a wide
range of commercial banking, mortgage
banking, personal banking and wealth
management services through its offices in Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts and a full
suite of convenient digital tools. Washington Trust is a member of
the FDIC and an equal housing lender. Washington Trust is a
subsidiary of Washington Trust Bancorp, Inc., a publicly-owned
holding company which trades on NASDAQ: WASH. For more
information, visit the Bank's website
at www.washtrust.com or the Corporation's website
at ir.washtrust.com.
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