{"id":76468,"date":"2016-05-20T07:49:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T12:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=76468"},"modified":"2016-05-20T07:49:55","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T12:49:55","slug":"bank-donates-to-bdc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/05\/20\/bank-donates-to-bdc\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank donates to BDC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/First-Financial-gives-to-BDC-5-2016.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76469\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/First-Financial-gives-to-BDC-5-2016.jpg\" alt=\"First Financial gives to BDC 5-2016\" width=\"545\" height=\"291\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>First Financial Bank made its second payment of a five-year pledge to the Van Wert Business Development Corporation (BDC) Opportunity Fund Campaign. \u201cAt First Financial, we are committed to helping our communities take another step on the path to success and are proud to support the BDC of Van Wert,\u201d George Brooks, First Financial market president. \u201cFirst Financial is honored to contribute a total of $50,000 over five years to the Opportunity Fund Initiative, which will go towards growing our economy and attracting new business to our wonderful community.\u201d The BDC is a not for profit 501(c)(3) corporation established to assist in local area economic development. Here, BDC members Seth Baker, Andy Czajkowski, and Tim Purmort accept the donation from Brooks.<\/strong> <em>(photo submitted)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Financial Bank made its second payment of a five-year pledge to the Van Wert Business Development Corporation (BDC) Opportunity Fund Campaign. \u201cAt First Financial, we are committed to helping our communities take another step on the path to success and are proud to support the BDC of Van Wert,\u201d George Brooks, First Financial market [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 01:52:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}