Dime Foundation Awards $2,250 to Children’s Museum of West Hartford

Dime Bank Foundation recently awarded $2,250 to the Children’s Museum of West Hartford to help support seven STEM educational programs for K-8 homeschooling families living in the New London and Groton areas. Each program will feature hands-on science and environment-based activities, as well as provide access to unique assets and learning opportunities that cannot be found elsewhere in the region.   
 
Opened in 1927, The Children’s Museum is the fifth oldest children’s museum in the country.  Their mission is to provoke life-long experiential learning and innovation among children, adults, and their communities.

About Dime Bank Foundation 
In 1998, Dime Bank established the Dime Foundation enabling the bank to support and give back to the communities it serves. The foundation provides funding for charitable, cultural, literary, scientific, and educational non-profit organizations. For more information about Dime Bank Foundation, visit www.dime-bank.com/dime-foundation.php   
 
Established in 1869, Dime Bank is a mutual bank with over $785 million in assets and 12 convenient branch locations throughout southeastern and shoreline Connecticut and Westerly, Rhode Island. As a full-service financial institution, Dime offers consumer and commercial banking, home mortgages, trust services, and through Dime Investment Services, a subsidiary of Dime Bank, insurance and investment services – all delivered with a personal touch. BauerFinancial, Inc., a national bank rating firm, recognized Dime Bank, as one of the strongest banks in the nation. For more information about Dime Bank, visit https://dime-bank.com.