Fire Ravaged Areas Need Support
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With Reports of Another Fire, Here is What Your Bank Can Do to Help
Thousands of Texas citizens continue to be affected by Texas wildfires. Many of our community bank friends have lost property and are struggling to regain some semblance of rebuilding their shattered lives.
IBAT continues to receive many calls from members asking what they can do to help. Some have already started bank-wide drives to collect money for victims and will deliver cash distributions to bank employees who have lost homes or other property. As such, we have set up a link to a number of relief efforts and other information on our webpage for your information and we are in the process of establishing a separate webpage devoted to bank disaster recovery efforts for ongoing reference.
The Texas Bankers Association has made a direct appeal to all banks in Texas to help with cash donations to benefit the Red Cross and Volunteer Firefighters and we support these efforts. IBAT will be making a contribution to this fund, and IBAT employees have generously volunteered time to various efforts for our neighbors in Bastrop.
We applaud all of the banking community assisting in these endeavors.