Bank gives $1,000 checks to 13 charities | Business

(WMC-TV) - Thirteen is their lucky number.  The locals are lucky to have them.

Thirteen Memphis-area non-profits are each $1,000 richer, thanks to Wells Fargo's third Days of Giving Program Sept. 5 at the Memphis Union Mission, 600 Poplar Ave.

The bank presented a grand to each of the following non-profits for contributions to their local communities:

• Boys & Girls Club of Greater Memphis
• Desoto County School District
• Friends for Life
• Hope House
• Latino Memphis, Inc.
• Memphis Child Advocacy Center
• Memphis Oral School for the Deaf
• National Black MBA Association
• Special Olympics of Memphis
• St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
• The Salvation Army
• Women Identity Purpose Organization
• YWCA of Greater Memphis

"The $1,000 will go a long way to provide pre-school for children impacted with HIV," said Craig Locke, Hope House's director of development. "Gifts of this size can go a long way to provide a lot for our students."

"Days of Giving allows us to applaud the non-profits who serve and help people across Memphis every day," said Ari M. Litvin, Wells Fargo Advisors Mid-South complex manager.