04/29/2024
Citizens Awards Grants to 30 Small Business Community Champions for Strengthening Local Economies
Funds will help winners continue to expand their businesses and support their communities
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Citizens today announced its seventh annual Small Business Community Champion Award winners, drawn from more than 10,000 entries that detailed how recipients would use the grants to build their businesses and support the growth and evolving needs of their communities. This year’s program will again award $10,000 each to 30 small businesses across Citizens’ footprint, including 10 minority-owned and 10 women-owned businesses. For the first time, five awards were also given specifically to veteran-owned businesses.
Citizens created the Small Business Community Champion Award program as part of its ongoing commitment to strengthen local economies and communities. Including this year’s recipients, the program has awarded more than $1.5 million across 142 small businesses.
“Small businesses are the heartbeat of vibrant and thriving local economies,” said Mark Valentino, head of Business Banking, Citizens. “We congratulate all of our 2024 Small Business Community Champion Award winners and are glad to be able to support them and their efforts to strengthen and lift up the communities in which they operate.”
For more information about the Small Business Community Champion program and a complete list of the 2024 winners, please click here.
About Citizens Financial Group, Inc.
Citizens Financial Group, Inc. is one of the nation’s oldest and largest financial institutions, with $220.4 billion in assets as of March 31, 2024. Headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island, Citizens offers a broad range of retail and commercial banking products and services to individuals, small businesses, middle-market companies, large corporations and institutions. Citizens helps its customers reach their potential by listening to them and by understanding their needs in order to offer tailored advice, ideas and solutions. In Consumer Banking, Citizens provides an integrated experience that includes mobile and online banking, a full-service customer contact center and the convenience of approximately 3,300 ATMs and approximately 1,000 branches in 14 states and the District of Columbia. Consumer Banking products and services include a full range of banking, lending, savings, wealth management and small business offerings. In Commercial Banking, Citizens offers a broad complement of financial products and solutions, including lending and leasing, deposit and treasury management services, foreign exchange, interest rate and commodity risk management solutions, as well as loan syndication, corporate finance, merger and acquisition, and debt and equity capital markets capabilities. More information is available at www.citizensbank.com or visit us on Twitter, LinkedIn or Facebook.
