Wells Fargo Donates to Piedmont Educational Foundation, Other East Bay Schools

Bay City News Service--Wells Fargo presented more than $1.2 million in grants this week, including $245,000 for East Bay schools and $975,000 to Habitat for Humanity.

The San Francisco-based bank on Wednesday presented $245,000 in
grants to 17 different East Bay school foundations, including $5,000 to the Piedmont Educational Foundation to benefit the .

The grants are designed to benefit school districts with students coming from low- to moderate-income families, said Micky Randhawa, president of Wells Fargo's East Bay market.

The company announced in November that it would donate $1 million to benefit education throughout the Bay Area, bringing the total it has donated to schools and nonprofit organizations for education in the Bay Area since 2009 to $13.3 million.

Earlier this week, Wells Fargo also announced a grant of $875,000 and more than 1,450 volunteer hours to Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco and Habitat for Humanity East Bay.

The grant is the single largest corporate gift Habitat for
Humanity has received in its 24 years of operation in the Bay area.

In San Francisco, the funds will be used in partnership with the nonprofit Rebuilding Together San Francisco to rehabilitate and renovate 50 community facilities and 200 homes in San Francisco and the Peninsula by 2020.

In the East Bay, Habitat for Humanity is building new homes, renovating abandoned foreclosed homes and repairing and weatherizing existing homes in Bay Point. 
    
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