Adrian Gonzalez and Eastern Bank are teaming up to generate funds for five youth mentoring programs in eastern Massachusetts, while also awarding one lucky winner $2,500, as part of the "Mentoring Wins" sweepstakes.
Gonzalez and Eastern Bank will together donate $5 per entry for the first 6,000 total sweepstakes entries received to a fund that will be distributed evenly among five local youth mentoring programs.
"I am very excited about my season-long partnership with Eastern Bank to raise awareness and funds for critical youth mentoring programs in Massachusetts," Gonzalez said. "The 'Mentoring Wins' sweepstakes will benefit one lucky grand prize winner and thousands of local children in need."
The sweepstakes, which runs July 2 to Aug. 13, is hosted on Eastern Bank's Facebook page at: www.facebook.com/easternbank.
Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Hampshire residents are able to participate in the promotion, which benefits Old Colony YMCA (Brockton, Mass.), Family Service, Inc. (Lawrence, Mass.), Big Sister Association of Greater Boston (Boston, Mass.), Big Brothers Big Sisters of Massachusetts Bay (Boston, Mass.) and Children's Friend and Family Services (Salem, Mass.).
Gonzalez and Eastern Bank got the sweepstakes going by making a combined $20,000 donation to start the fund, and entries could generate an additional $30,000 for a total donation of $50,000 spread evenly among the five youth mentor programs.
Eastern Bank has also created a webpage, www.easternbank.com/adrian, to generate awareness about the need for youth mentor volunteers.
