TUPELO, Miss., Feb. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BancorpSouth has donated $7,000 to America's Second Harvest - The Nation's Food Bank Network, spread throughout several communities in its corporate footprint. The bank will partner with the hunger-relief organization to provide volunteers and funding for food banks and soup kitchens in 19 locations throughout the mid-south.
"We're excited about the opportunity to partner with America's Second Harvest," said Aubrey Patterson, CEO and Chairman of the Board for BancorpSouth. "We believe it is incumbent upon us as corporate citizens of each community to make a difference in a real and tangible way, and this is one way we can do that." The $7,000 will be split among the communities within the seven states in which BancorpSouth has offices.
America's Second Harvest - The Nation's Food Bank Network is the largest charitable domestic hunger-relief organization in the country with a network of more than 200 Member food banks and food-rescue organizations servicing all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. The America's Second Harvest Network secures and distributes more than 2 billion pounds of donated food and grocery products annually; and supports approximately 50,000 local charitable agencies operating more than 94,000 programs including food pantries, soup kitchens, emergency shelters, after-school programs and Kids Cafes. For more on the America's Second Harvest Network, please visit http://www.secondharvest.org/.
BancorpSouth, Inc. is a financial holding company headquartered in Tupelo, Mississippi with approximately $12.0 billion in assets. BancorpSouth Bank, a wholly-owned subsidiary of BancorpSouth, Inc., operates approximately 283 commercial banking, mortgage, insurance, trust and broker/dealer locations in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas.
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