{"id":87719,"date":"2019-04-25T17:19:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T21:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=87719"},"modified":"2019-04-25T17:19:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T21:19:50","slug":"covenant-bank-crayola-victaulic-among-companies-supporting-project-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/?p=87719","title":{"rendered":"Covenant Bank, Crayola, Victaulic among companies supporting ProJeCt in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em><strong>PHOTO CAPTION: (left to right) In front of the ProJeCt of Easton administration building, Tom Harper, director of development at ProJeCt, and \u00a0Janice Komisor, chief executive officer, accept a $20,000 EITC donation from Blair T. Rush, chief operating officer of Covenant Bank; and Eileen Wass, vice president of human resources and marketing.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(EASTON, PA) \u2014 ProJeCt of Easton recently received a $20,000 donation from Covenant Bank courtesy of President and Chief Operating Officer Blair T. Rush and Eileen Wass, Vice President of Human Resources and Marketing. Covenant Bank, based in Doylestown, provided the funds through the state\u2019s Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) program.<\/p>\n<p>ProJeCt CEO Janice Komisor thanked Blair and Eileen for their continued support. \u201cWhile supporting our pre-school you enable us to offer families with low literacy our comprehensive family literacy program, providing children with a high quality educational start while their parents also advance their education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Covenant Bank is one of several businesses active with ProJeCt during April:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Crayola awarded ProJeCt\u2019s SIZZLE!\u00ae program with a $10,000 grant award. SIZZLE!\u00ae is a literacy-based summer camp for students in the Easton School District.<\/li>\n<li>Victaulic celebrated its 100<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary on April 4 by sending 45 volunteers to ProJeCt\u2019s Legacy Garden at Fowler Literacy Center (FLC). ProJeCt is the beneficiary of Victaulic\u2019s chosen partner for the Volunteer Center of the Lehigh Valley\u2019s Volunteer Challenge.<\/li>\n<li>Met-Ed\/First Energy Corporation raised $475 through its annual \u201cHarvest for Hunger\u201d to benefit ProJeCt\u2019s Food Pantry, which also received 100 donated hams courtesy of Giant Supermarkets.<\/li>\n<li>Carmen Abrazado, owner of Delaware River Books in Easton, donated $350 to FLC to purchase a refurbished laptop for students. \u201cLiteracy is a very important initiative,\u201d Carmen says, \u201cbecause there is so much that is accessible once literacy enters someone\u2019s life.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Since 1968, ProJeCt has helped people throughout the Lehigh Valley break free from the cycle of poverty. ProJeCt\u2019s mission is to build a better community by helping people help themselves succeed in school, work and life through adult education, family literacy, school-based programming and emergency support services. For more information, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.projecteaston.org\/\">www.projecteaston.org<\/a> or call 610-258-4361.<\/p>\n<p>Information and\u00a0 image provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nAngel R. Ackerman<br \/>\nDevelopment Coordinator<br \/>\nProJeCt of Easton, Inc.<br \/>\n320 Ferry St., Easton, PA 18042<br \/>\nwww.projecteaston.org<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner3023'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/' target=\"_blank\" data-id='3023' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg?w=474&#038;ssl=1\" alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner7036'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com' target=\"_blank\" data-id='7036' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg?w=474&#038;ssl=1\" alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/?post_type=adverts_posts&p=7036\" class=\"read-more\">Click here to read more... <\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Covenant-Bank.jpg?fit=672%2C372&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}