LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., June 11, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Flushing Financial Corporation (the "Company") (Nasdaq:FFIC), the parent holding company for Flushing Savings Bank, FSB (the "Bank"), today announced that they are for the second year in a row sponsoring a grant to Classroom, Inc., a New York based non-profit organization that supports students in low to moderate income areas. Flushing Savings Bank's generous grant funded a special literacy and math program for the Thomas A. Dooley elementary school (P.S. 107) in Flushing, Queens. This grant supported four teachers and over 100 fourth and fifth-grade students. The announcement was made by John R. Buran, Flushing Financial's President and Chief Executive Officer.
John R. Buran stated: "We are pleased to lend our support to such a worthwhile organization and we look forward to continuing our partnership with Classroom, Inc. They have designed a special literacy and math program that uses an innovative curriculum to help students gain essential academic skills. This program has been well received by school administrators, teachers, parents, and most importantly, students. This program is truly unique in that it provides our youth with a wide range of benefits from improved literacy and math skills to greater career awareness. At Flushing Savings Bank, we are always looking for opportunities to give back to the communities we serve."
About Flushing Financial Corporation
Flushing Financial Corporation is the parent holding company for Flushing Savings Bank, FSB, a federally chartered stock savings bank insured by the FDIC. The Bank serves consumers and businesses by offering a full complement of deposit, loan, and cash management services through its fifteen banking offices located in Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Nassau County. The Bank also operates an online banking division, iGObanking.com(r), which enables the Bank to expand outside of its current geographic footprint. In 2007, the Bank established Flushing Commercial Bank, a wholly-owned subsidiary, to provide banking services to public entities including counties, cities, towns, villages, school districts, libraries, fire districts and the various courts throughout the metropolitan area.
Additional information on Flushing Financial Corporation may be obtained by visiting the Company's website at http://www.flushingsavings.com.
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