NHBR About Town: People’s United Community Foundation

December 30, 2011

NH Business Review Staff,

Dianne Mercier, New Hampshire president of People’s United Bank, presents Lawrence Yerdon, president of the Strawbery Banke Museum, with a $5,000 check on behalf of the People’s United Community Foundation, the bank’s philanthropic arm. The grant will support History Within Reach, which provides tuition and transportation to the museum and its educational programs for underserved schools.

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