Central Maine business briefs: Franklin Savings Bank receives SBA District Director Award
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FARMINGTON The Maine district office of the U.S. Small Business Administration presented Franklin Savings Bank with the SBA District Director Award during a virtual ceremony Dec. 3.
This award was received in recognition of the efforts taken by Franklin Savings to greatly increase the use of SBA programs in the bank’s lending portfolio. Derek Hayes, senior vice president of Commercial Lending had this to say about the team’s success, “We’re grateful to receive the SBA’s District Director Award because it confirms the faith so many small business owners have placed in Franklin Savings Bank during a very turbulent year. I am also immensely proud of our staff, who have worked tirelessly to help our business community access much-needed capital in 2020,” according to a new
A summer internship program launched this year by Maine s three largest law firms and the University of Maine School of Law to move the needle on diversity will be even bigger next summer with more employers joining the initiative.
The Maine D1L Diversity Summer Associate Program got off the ground this summer at Bernstein Shur, Pierce Atwood and Verrill, each of whom hosted two first-year law students from throughout the country.
One of the participants this summer, Jireh Davis of Texas Southern University’s Thurgood Marshall School of Law, did a Pierce Atwood virtual internship from her home state. She told Mainebiz she hopes to get to Maine in person someday and help pioneer Maine in the diversity and inclusion sphere.”