Santander Bank Presents Urban Edge With $35,000 check for its Homeownership and Financial Education Programs

Gwen Robinson, Santander Bank’s Managing Director of Corporate Responsibility, met with representatives from Urban Edge today to formally present them with the $35,000 check from the bank’s charitable grant program. The funds are supporting Urban Edge’s Homeownership and Financial Education program which offers First-Time Homebuyer education, Foreclosure Prevention Counseling and Student Loan Counseling. Robinson also received an update on the programs from Urban Edge staff.

Since 1995, Urban Edge has educated and helped almost 3,000 families purchase homes. The funding from Santander Bank will be used to continue Urban Edge’s work in creating new homeowners, helping reduce student debt, a barrier to homeownership and counsel clients on how to avoid foreclosure. Santander will also send bank representatives to help teach Urban Edge’s First-Time Homebuyer Classes, which will be held in three languages: English, Spanish and Haitian Creole.

About Urban Edge

For over 40 years, Urban Edge has offered a range of innovative programs that help low and moderate income families in and around Boston become economically resilient, establish homeownership, and access needed community resources. Throughout its history, the organization has developed nearly 1,500 units of affordable housing, making it one of Boston’s largest nonprofit developers of affordable units. Most recently, the agency has been a prime mover in the redevelopment of the Jackson Square neighborhood, creating new affordable housing and commercial space along eight acres of land that border Roxbury and Jamaica Plain. For more information on Urban Edge, visit http://www.urbanedge.org.

From left to right: Gercide Luc, Milagros Pascual, Bob Credle, Gwen Robinson of Santander Bank, Frank Shea, Michael Rousseau, Eva Osorio