LEGENDS BANK BEN C PARKS AWARD

United Way Ben C. Parks Award Presented To Legends Bank

For last 10 years, Legends Bank has received the United Way Ben C. Parks Award for best workplace campaign in Montgomery, Houston and Stewart counties. Well, this year, the local bank received the honor again.

The award started in 1990, and honors the memory of Ben C. Parks, who fully supported United Way’s mission and encouraged excellence in every endeavor. It’s now presented to a local workplace, company, or organization that has conducted the best overall workplace campaign to support the United Way. Each year, more than 30 local businesses – from small to large – partner with the United Way and offer staff and employees the ability to contribute financially through payroll deductions or one-time donations. This allows all to give smaller amounts over the year, which adds up quickly. they have hosted golf tournaments to benefit the United Way, this year collectively the Legends team decided to forgo their holiday celebration and gave the monies to support the United Way,” United Way CEO Valerie Guzman said in a news release. The contributions from Legends Bank allowed United Way to exceed its $1.5 million goal for the 2021-22 year.

“Legends Bank believes strongly in the United Way’s mission to ‘Live United.’ We have always considered our workplace campaign to be an important part of our culture of giving back to our local communities. The Ben C. Parks Award, which we have won several times over the past few years, is a testament to how serious we take this commitment,” Tommy Bates, president and CEO of Legends Bank, said.

To be eligible for the Ben C. Parks award, the recipient workplace must have achieved 95 percent or greater of employee giving potential, an increase in number of volunteers, an increase in leadership donors and must have run a campaign for more than three years.

“Fully embracing this year’s campaign spirit, the award recipient not only met these qualifications — they well exceeded them. In years past, “Our employees realize that helping others brings so much joy internally and externally. We try to make it fun by having Jeans Days, Bake Sales, Pumpkin Painting, Chili Cookoffs, Halloween Dress Up, and so much more. And, knowing that what we’ve raised stays in our community helping people in need in so many different ways is truly very fulfilling,” Jeanette Kramer, Legends Banks’s senior vice president of human resources, added.