Staff from City National Bank donated time in packaging school supplies and distributing them to schools. (photo courtesy of City National Bank)

City National Bank recently donated 1,800 backpacks filled with school supplies as part of its 10th annual Back-to-School Supplies Drive.

Recipients included the Carthay School of Environmental Studies Magnet, located at 6351 W. Olympic Blvd., as well as 53 other elementary schools and nonprofit organizations throughout the United States.

City National’s Back-to-School Supplies Drive began in 2008, one year after the bank launched its “Dollars & Sense” financial literacy program.

“City National’s Back-to-School Supplies Drive was once again a huge success with the generous support of our colleagues donating, preparing and shipping the backpacks filled with educational supplies to schools in eight states,” said Jennifer Nickerson, senior vice president and corporate citizenship manager for City National Bank. “This is one of our colleagues’ favorite philanthropic programs each year because it’s helping so many kids and education. The goal in the next 10 years of this program is to double both the number of backpacks and schools we’re supporting.”

Each backpack was filled with erasers, highlighters, round-tip scissors, wide ruled paper, colored pencils, folders, notebooks, pencil sharpeners, rulers, boxes of crayons, glue sticks, pencils, three-ring binders and more. In addition to supplies, bank colleagues donated time packaging and delivering the backpacks to schools.

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