Helping hands: Oxford Bank executives participate in Covenant House Sleep Out Detroit

Oxford Financial institution executives participated within the Covenant Home Sleep Out Detroit. They and different volunteers traded their beds for cardboard bins for one night time to boost consciousness and funds for unhoused younger adults.

Oxford Financial institution President and CEO David Lamb, EVP and COO Nancy Rosentrater, CFO Nate Cause, EVP Mark Morrison participated within the annual Covenant Home Sleep Out on November 20.

Rosentrater mentioned the work of Sleep Out and Covenant Home is a lifeline for teenagers ageing out of foster care.

“When teenagers come out of foster care at 18, they’re additionally popping out of a whole lot of packages, and that is a tricky highway,” Rosentrater says. “Covenant Home does not simply give younger adults a spot to go. It additionally teaches them necessary life abilities, akin to writing a CV, discovering a job and getting their driver’s license. It provides them a basis on which to construct an grownup life, and we at Oxford Financial institution are proud to assist elevate consciousness for this essential and crucial group.”

To this point this yr, Oxford Financial institution has raised greater than $20,000 for Covenant Home and the Sleep Out, and donations shall be collected by way of December, in keeping with an Oxford Financial institution press launch.

Covenant Home is a world nonprofit group devoted to empowering youth to beat homelessness and human trafficking. For extra info, go to www.convenanthouse.org.

Oxford Financial institution is headquartered in Oxford, with a number of branches within the space. For extra info, go to www.oxfordbank.com.

ITC donates $290,000 to Michigan meals banks

ITC Michigan, an impartial electrical transmission firm based mostly in Novi, introduced it has donated $290,000 to seven Michigan meals banks.

The meals banks embrace: Gleaners Group Meals Financial institution of Southeastern Michigan, Forgotten Harvest, Meals Gatherers, Meals Financial institution of Japanese Michigan, Better Lansing Meals Financial institution, South Michigan Meals Financial institution and Feeding America West Michigan Meals Financial institution.

“As the vacations method, ITC Michigan acknowledges the elevated want for meals help in our communities,” Charles Marshall, president of ITC Michigan, mentioned in a information launch.

ITC Michigan builds and operates the high-voltage electrical transmission system throughout a lot of the Decrease Peninsula.

The $290,000 donation is a part of ITC’s $450,000 dedication from its three working corporations, together with ITC Michigan, ITC Midwest and ITC Nice Plains, to meals banks in Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota and Kansas.

For extra info, go to www.itcmichigan.com.