Giving spirits CB&T associates and their teams are helping raise the bar on the bank’s philanthropic promise
BY BRUCE FARR
WHEN IT COMES to practicing corporate philanthropy — that is, giving back to communities through the auspices of their workplace — Michelle Generazzo and Sherri Harris are truly walking the talk.
Michelle Generazzo VICE PRESIDENT AND CUSTOMER RELATIONS MANAGER, LA MESA BRANCH “It’s a simple proposition,” Michelle Generazzo explains. “Along with my own commitment, I support the employees in my branch, and I want them to be involved in nonprofit ‘giving’ work. I think it’s an important part of our lives as citizens ... to give back to different organizations out there that need help.”
the past dozen years has been volunteering with the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). “My main job right now is as a scoutmaster for a BSA girls’ troop. For the past nine years, I’ve also served as the course director for a corporate leadership program that, this year, we’re putting on for adults,” she says, adding that the adult-focused program offers a wide array of scoutmasters the opportunity to explore different leadership styles that they can then bring back to their own scouts’ troops. Generazzo’s commitment to scouting is, as she describes it, home-grown. She and her husband have four children, three of whom have been involved in the scouting program for many years. She says that one of her motivations for devoting so much of her spare time to scouting is its long-lasting ripple effects. “Everything that we teach — whether we’re
Although she and her La Mesa CB&T team are involved in a number of philanthropic efforts, Generazzo says that, personally, her cause over
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