[Dixielandjazz] Banks Presidents Doing Things for Humanity

[Kevin Yeates]

"Who can remember the name of a bank president - or what they did for humanity and culture on this planet? 

Cheers,

Andrew"


Presuming I am reading this correctly (your suggestion being that Bank Presidents haven't been contributing to humanity or culture) a quick way to get an answer to your question is to query "sponsored by the bank" on your favorite search engine and see what you get. That is a very limited way to query it, but you will definitely get hits.

Banks, and all large corporations, are major sponsors of the arts, sports, culture and humanity. Businesses want the community to shine, to be a place where people want to come to. The business will do better as a result. When the community is stronger, the businesses are stronger. Each one strengthens the other. 

You can slam businesses all you want but the bottom line is that it is the business that keep the funding going for cultural events. As a specific example, here in Canada, the Toronto Dominion Bank (TD Bank) sponsors the Vancouver Jazz Festival and the Montreal Jazz Festival every summer. They are two major international jazz festivals. Go to their website at   http://www.tdcanadatrust.com/music     and see all of the music festivals they sponsor. The Langley Jazz Festival (a much smaller community jazz festival) was sponsored by the Envision Financial Group. 

I can go on and on. Bottom line, the businesses, including banks, are supporting the community in every what they can. 

Kevin Yeates
Vancouver,Canada