TD Bank Supports New Peace Center Music Pavilion & Children’s Museum
October 14, 2010
Bank also donates $30,000 to the Children’s Museum
GREENVILLE, SC – October 14, 2010 – TD Bank has pledged a multi-year commitment to the Peace Center for the Performing Arts in Greenville, S.C. to support the newly proposed music pavilion; the partnership includes naming rights to the pavilion. The TD Pavilion at the Peace Center, as it will be known, is an outdoor amphitheatre in the center of the promenade and is expected to be completed by 2012.
TD Bank also donated $30,000 to the Children’s Museum of the Upstate to offer all children a chance to experience the museum.
“TD Bank is very excited to support this premiere music pavilion and support a key organization in Greenville,” said Lynn Harton, head of regional commercial banking, south, TD Bank. “TD Bank remains dedicated to making a meaningful and positive contribution to the communities in which we do business. “We feel it is important to invest in our communities even now during this tough economy, and help families and residents enjoy quality art in their own back yard. We truly believe in becoming part of the fabric of community where we do business.”
In 2009, TD Bank provided $5.4 million through community sponsorships and $715,000 from employee contributions. TD Bank’s charitable giving arm, the TD Charitable Foundation, also donated $13.9 million last year. That’s a total of $20 million to help improve the quality of life for the people in local communities we serve. Since its inception in 2002, the TD Charitable Foundation has donated more than $64 million to
charitable organizations in the United States.
“The Peace Center is very pleased to announce TD Bank’s sponsorship of the ‘TD Bank Music Pavilion.’ This is a pivotal moment in Greenville’s history as two great brands are joining together to enrich the region’s cultural and entertainment experience,” said Megan Riegel, Peace Center For the Performing Arts, President.
The Peace Center’s mission is to present the world’s finest performers from a broad variety of disciplines, sustain state-of-the-art theatrical venues and quality services to support local performing arts groups, and foster life-long appreciation for the arts through comprehensive education and outreach programs for children, educators and adults. TD Bank Music Pavilion will seat about 1,200. Founded with the philosophy that a strong cultural life is integral to a community’s success, the Peace Center is an advocate for the performing arts, and actively participates in the economic development and cultural advancement of the Upstate.
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TD Bank, America’s Most Convenient Bank, is one of the 15 largest commercial banks in the United States,providing customers with a full range of financial products and services at about 1,300 convenient locations from Maine to Florida. On September 30, 2010, The South Financial Group, Inc. was acquired by TD Bank Financial Group, and its subsidiary Carolina First Bank merged with TD Bank. Carolina First Bank will continue to operate under the trade names Carolina First Bank in North and South Carolina and Mercantile Bank in Florida until conversion and rebranding in 2011. TD Bank is headquartered in Cherry Hill, N.J., and Portland, Maine. Carolina First Bank and Mercantile Bank are trade names of TD Bank, N.A. For more information, visit www.tdbank.com. TD Bank, America’s Most Convenient Bank, is a member of TD Bank Financial Group and a subsidiary of The Toronto-Dominion Bank of Toronto, Canada, a top 10 financial services company in North America and one of the few banks in the world rated Aaa by Moody’s. The Toronto-Dominion Bank trades on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges under the ticker symbol TD. To learn more, visit www.td.com.
About the Peace Center for the Performing Arts
The Peace Center’s mission is to present the world’s finest performers from a broad variety of disciplines, sustain state-of-the-art theatrical venues and quality services to support local performing arts groups, and foster life-long appreciation for the arts through comprehensive education and outreach programs for children, educators and adults.
Founded with the philosophy that a strong cultural life is integral to a community’s success, the Peace Center is an advocate for the performing arts, and actively participates in the economic development and cultural advancement of the Upstate.
These goals are accomplished by presenting over 300 performances annually; serving over 60,000 students, teachers, parents, and other community members each season through the Peace Outreach Program; and subsidizing our facilities and other services to our fellow local arts organizations. All total, we estimate that over 200,000 patrons walk through our doors each season, whether they are attending a Broadway show, participating in an arts education workshop, or attending a Resident Company performance.
The Peace Center owns and operates three performance venues: the Peace Concert Hall (2,100 seating capacity), Gunter Theatre (400 seating capacity) and TD Pavilion at the Peace Center (more than 1,200 seating capacity). These facilities host over 70 Peace Center presentations each season as well as presentations from the five Resident Companies: Greenville Symphony Orchestra, Carolina Ballet Theatre, South Carolina Children’s Theatre, International Ballet, and Greenville Chorale. Other local performing
arts groups also perform at the Peace Center, including the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities, Furman University, Foothills Philharmonic, Greenville County Youth Orchestra, North Greenville University, and Carolina Youth Symphony.
