Eastern Bank awards $3 million for COVID‐19 response

The Eastern Bank Charitable Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Eastern Bank, recently announced an additional $3 million in grants to help address the impact of COVID‐19 in the communities Eastern Bank serves. Specifically, $1.5 million will go to organizations addressing housing and homelessness and preventing evictions and foreclosures, rental assistance, shelters and other services as a result of housing insecurities compounded by the pandemic; $1 million will go to multi‐service organizations providing fundamental social services in the communities Eastern serves and working on the front lines to help individuals and families with rental assistance/eviction prevention, emergency housing and affordable housing, foreclosure prevention, and food security; and $500,000 will go to emergency assistance for organizations providing support for food security and emergency assistance for fuel and utilities, helping to ensure food stability and the availability of heat, light and the internet during the winter.