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Project Still I Rise Receives Technology Grant From Comerica Bank

Saturday, January 01, 2011
On December 14, 2010, Comerica Bank opened its 95th full-service banking center in Texas, its I-20 & Wheatland location, at 2875 Wheatland Road in Dallas. The new banking center is the fifth Comerica location in South Dallas, and the third to be built since 2009. To help celebrate the holiday season opening, Comerica donated $10,000 to Project Still I Rise, a local non-profit that provides mentoring and leadership development programs for South Dallas youth, to purchase laptops for students of low and moderate income families that have excelled both inside and outside the classroom.

Pat Faubion, Comerica’s Texas Market President, along with Irv Ashford, Comerica’s Senior Vice President of Community Development & External Affairs, and Tennell Atkins, Dallas City Councilmember for District 8, handed out the new laptops to the surprised students during a holiday gifting ceremony at Comerica’s newest banking center.

“We believe in the work that Project Still I Rise is doing to empower youth in the South Dallas community, and to show our support, we decided to give laptops to their top 25 students to help them be more successful in their academic endeavors,” said J. Patrick “Pat” Faubion, Comerica’s Texas Market President. “This holiday gift is just one way that Comerica is helping shape a better future for South Dallas.

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