(Carlisle) F&M Trust officials made a donation of $1500 to Safe Harbour, fulfilling their promise in a donor match campaign.

The funds drive featured a letter from F&M Trust President Bill Snell encouraging others to support the Carlisle organization. F&M Trust pledged to contribute a flat rate for each contribution made throughout the funds drive, with a ceiling of $1,000.  

On Monday, F&M Trust increased that amount and presented Safe Harbour with a $1,500 check that pushed collections for the campaign to $24,500.   According to Pat LaMarche, Safe Harbour’s vice president of community development, last year’s fund drive totaled $13,000 when the campaign concluded at the end of January. 

“We haven’t had it this high for six or seven years,” commented LaMarche, noting that the trend in contributions for the organization have been down for about five years before taking a big dip last year. “It’s been a much better December than we ever hoped it would be.”

Safe Harbour was created 23 years ago when a coalition of more than a dozen human service agencies came together to establish a single unit to care for Cumberland County homeless.  Previously known as the Cumberland County Coalition for Shelter, Inc., Safe Harbour provides bridge housing, emergency shelter and single-room occupancy programs, as wll as numerous programs to help residents get back on their feet.

“We can’t thank Mr. Snell and F&M Trust enough,” Wendell Hollinger, president of Safe Harbour said. “I hope he knows how much that means to the individuals, families, and children, who, thanks to community support and leadership like Mr. Snell’s, will have a place to live.”

F&M Trust Company is an independent community bank headquartered in Chambersburg with approximately $980 million in assets.  With twenty-four community banking office in Cumberland, Franklin, Fulton, and Huntingdon counties, the bank has locations in Carlisle, Boiling Springs, Newville, Shippensburg, Chambersburg, Marion, Greencastle, Waynesboro, Mont Alto, St. Thomas, McConnellsburg, Hustontown, Orbisonia, and Warfordsburg.

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