Central New York Business Journal: First Niagara awards SUNY Poly
$25K grant for mentoring program
Published:
Tuesday, March 22, 2016 - 09:57
SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly) will use a $25,000 grant from First Niagara Bank’s Mentoring Matters program for the work of its career-services center in that area.
The grant funds will benefit the center’s mentoring program, which helps students arrange workplace-site visits, informational interviews, and job shadowing, SUNY Poly said in a news release issued Friday .
The funding will also help the school organize workshops, panels, career-services presentations, and assistance with other career-services events.
“On behalf of the SUNY Polytechnic Institute Foundation, I’d like to extend our genuine appreciation for First Niagara’s support of the student-mentoring programs here at SUNY Poly,” Nick Grimmer, assistant VP of development for SUNY Poly, said in the school’s news release. “Their tremendous investment will have a significant impact on the resources that we are able to provide to the students who work with our career-services office. I am very proud to say that First Niagara Bank is a true philanthropic partner of SUNY Poly and our foundation.”
