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At South Shore Bank, we value partnerships with our community.
Your community is our community. We feel a personal responsibility to help the businesses and people of South Shore thrive through the giving of our time, our talents, and our service. At South Shore Bank, serving our community is the foundation from which we grow, helping us create lifelong relationships with not only our clients, but the entire South Shore community.
Through grants from the South Shore Bank Charitable Foundation and Bank sponsorships, our involvement supports various community groups including organizations focused on the arts, eliminating food insecurity, community gardens, youth sports, and more.
This Massachusetts Nonprofit Found a Way to Boost Literacy–By Bringing Music into the Classroom
On a typical week at The Angelo School in Brockton, Mass., Kaitlyn Mazzilli, a dance movement therapist and volunteer music teacher, walks into a kindergarten classroom singing and banging a large drum. The students in the classroom aren’t surprised or skeptical, but react with excitement. Throughout Mazzilli’s lesson, with surprising consistency for a kindergarten class, they sit rapt with attention. And by the time she leaves, one 45-minute period later, they’re usually asking her to stay to do another song.
“I have to tear myself away because I’d love to stay longer,” Mazzilli says. “But of course we have to move on to the next classroom.”
The instruction the kids get in that brief period once a week is not just a source of joy for those students. Within the field of education, it’s increasingly understood that integrating the arts into core curriculum subjects, such as literacy and math, improves students’ ability to grasp these areas of study. But asking teachers to take on this additional, interdisciplinary skill all on their own can be a major challenge.
That’s where Mazzilli comes in. She’s an instructor for ImagineARTS, a program by the South Shore Conservatory that supports literacy in schools across the city of Brockton through arts integration. The lessons provided by Mazzilli, and other instructors in the program, help students grow as learners, help teachers in providing lessons day-to-day, and even help the families of those students to bring more music into their lives.
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Annual St. Patrick's Day Cardinal Cushing Dinner & Auction
On Thursday March 16th South Shore Bank had the pleasure of serving as the premier sponsor of the Annual St. Patrick's Day Dinner and Auction at Granite Links Golf Club in Quincy to benefit Cardinal Cushing Centers. South Shore Bank has been the premier sponsor of this event since 2007.
For those who aren’t familiar, Cardinal Cushing Centers operates two educational facilities in Hanover and Braintree providing learning opportunities for students with intellectual disabilities.
Many local businesses participated in auction lots donating generous prizes ranging from Patriots tickets, pickleball court rentals, and lottery ticket baskets, to dinner packages, backyard barbecue bundles, and even an African Safari tour.
With the help of the South Shore businesses that donated some amazing auction items and the support of the 200+ guests in attendance who went home with these incredible prizes, $160,000 was raised to send the 2023 graduating class of Cardinal Cushing on a fully paid trip to Disney World to celebrate their accomplishments with the adventure of a lifetime!
We’re so proud of these hard-working students and their incredible achievements. We look forward to this amazing event each year and can’t wait to be back next year!