Framingham, MA For his outstanding commitment to the community, Andrew Giovannini has been selected by Citizens Bank to receive its annual Credo Champion for Community Award.

As part of the award and in celebration of Nov. 29 as Giving Tuesday, Citizens Bank contributed $2,500 to Giovannini’s charity of choice. This award is part of Citizens Helping Citizens, the bank’s program that strives to enhance the quality of life and economic vitality in local communities.

“Colleagues like Andrew exemplify our goal to strengthen the communities where we live and work,” said Jerry Sargent, president of Citizens Bank, Massachusetts. “Andrew embodies Citizens’ spirit of giving, and contributing back to his community.”

Giovannini has selected PFLAG to receive the $2,500 donation.

Each year, a volunteer or a group of volunteers who perform exemplary service to the community is honored by Citizens Bank with this award and with a contribution to the nonprofit organization of the recipient’s choice.

This annual award was created in 2007 by Citizens Bank to honor volunteers who perform exemplary service in the communities where Citizens does business. Nominations for the award are made by co-workers or colleagues nominating themselves.

The Citizens Helping Citizens program addresses four key areas: fighting hunger, providing shelter, teaching money management and strengthening communities.

Citizens Financial Group, Inc. is one of the nation’s oldest and largest financial institutions, with $147 billion in assets as of September 30, 2016. Headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island, Citizens offers a broad range of retail and commercial banking products and services to individuals, small businesses, middle-market companies, large corporations and institutions. In Consumer Banking, Citizens helps its retail customers “bank better” with mobile and online banking, a 24/7 customer contact center and the convenience of approximately 3,200 ATMs and approximately 1,200 Citizens Bank branches in 11 states in the New England, Mid-Atlantic and Midwest regions. Citizens also provides wealth management, mortgage lending, auto lending, student lending and commercial banking services in select markets nationwide. In Commercial Banking, Citizens offers corporate, institutional and not-for-profit clients a full range of wholesale banking products and services including lending and deposits, capital markets, treasury services, foreign exchange and interest hedging, leasing and asset finance, specialty finance and trade finance.

Citizens operates through its subsidiaries Citizens Bank, N.A., and Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania as Citizens Bank, Citizens Commercial Banking and Citizens One.