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Wells Fargo Birthday Leads to Shelter Network Gift

The company chose the Burlingame-based nonprofit as a grant recipient in celebration of Wells Fargo's 160th anniversary.

One Burlingame nonprofit is $30,000 richer, thanks to a Wells Fargo grant.

, an organization dedicated to providing housing and homeless services to the homeless on the San Francisco Peninsula, received the grant as part of Wells Fargo’s 160-year anniversary.

"Wells Fargo has been a partner of our for many years, and we were honored that we were selected," said Shelter Network Communications Manager Maria Duzon. "It recognized the strength of that partnership we have with them, and we're very grateful."

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San Francisco-based Wells Fargo marked the 160-year milestone by donating $2.5 million to more than 60 nonprofits across the country, spending $320,000 of that money in the Bay Area. Wells Fargo customers voted on the division of the grant money at local ATMs.

“Wells Fargo has been in business for 160 years because we have done our best to help our customers achieve their financial objectives, and they have allowed us to continue to serve them year after year,” said Michael F. Billeci, president of Wells Fargo’s San Francisco Bay region in a statement. “I am proud that today, we are able to say ‘thank you’ to communities where we live, work and do business by donating to local nonprofits which tirelessly serve people in need.”

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In addition to having a long history of service, Wells Fargo was recently called "the nation's biggest bank by market value" in an article from the Los Angeles Times.

Shelter Network received the donation during a gifting ceremony March 18 at the Bay Area Discovery Museum. The grant will go to client services, providing programs and housing for the homeless.


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