Customers Bank supports "Take Our Sons & Daughters To Work Day"

Customers Bank marked the 20^th anniversary of "Take Our Sons & Daughters To Work Day" (April 25) by encouraging its employees ­– and parents across the region – to give their children the opportunity for a close-up, in-person view of today’s workplace.

“We think it’s important for young people to be able to observe how people interact and conduct themselves in a professional working environment,” said Richard A. Ehst, President and Chief Operating Officer of Customers Bank.

“There are many fundamental skills and habits that a person needs to master in order to land a good job once they graduate from college or high school,” Ehst said. “Such an experience as this can help our children better understand what opportunities are out there for them, as well as how they should conduct themselves in order to be successful.”

"Take Our Sons & Daughters To Work Day" is a national program that originated in 1993 to encourage parents to bring their children into the workplace to explore various career and professional choices.

Since its beginning, the Take Our Daughters and Sons To Work Foundation, the nonprofit organization that promotes the event, has grown to become one of the largest public awareness campaigns, with more than 37,000,000 participants annually in more than 3,000,000 organizations and workplaces in every state.

“As a community bank with roots in the communities, businesses and families we serve, we believe it is important to serve as mentors and give children the opportunity to observe a real life working environment can help prepare them for the challenges they will face as they prepare to join the work force,” Ehst said.

“For the past twenty years, this effort has inspired a generation of girls and boys by helping bring them into the workplace to explore the many life choices they have,” Ehst said. “By participating in this effort, we also want to help clarify and strengthen the connection between education and work and what it means to the health and vitality of our communities.”

About Customers Bank

Customers Bank is a community-based, full-service bank headquartered in Phoenixville, Pa., with assets of about $3.2 billion.  A member of the Federal Reserve System and deposits insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”), Customers Bank provides a full range of banking services to small and medium-sized businesses, professionals, individuals and families through branch locations in Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey. Committed to fostering customer loyalty, Customers Bank uses a High Tech/High Touch strategy that includes use of industry-leading technology to provide customers better access to their money, as well as a continually expanding portfolio of loans to small businesses, multi-family projects, mortgage companies and consumers. Customers Bank is a subsidiary of Customers Bancorp, Inc., a bank holding company based in Wyomissing, Pa. Visit us online at http://customersbank.com, “Like” us on www.facebook.com/CustomersBank or follow us at www.twitter.com/customersbank.

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Jacob Love, son of Brian Love, Vice President of E-Banking at Customers Bank, gets an early tutorial in the fine points of online banking. The two took part in Customers Bank’s “Bring Your Kids to Work” initiative on Thursday at the bank’s Phoenixville branch. The program, which was held across multiple Customers Bank locations, was designed to give children the opportunity to observe a real-life working environment that can help prepare them for the future when they join the work force.