Foundation gives $100,000 to campaign for heart center
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By Barbara Polichetti CRANSTON -- The Coastway Cares Charitable Foundation today announced that it is pledging $100,000 to Kent Hospital's $2.8 million capital campaign for a new heart center. The pledge from the non-profit foundation supported and managed by employees of Coastway Credit Union is the largest commitment the foundation has made in the past few years and one of the largest donations Kent has received since launching its fundraising campaign about a year ago, according to officials at both Coastway and Kent. "I'm so proud to be able to make this contribution to such an important project in the community," William White, president and CEO of Coastway, said today. Based in Cranston, Coastway Credit Union has seven branches throughout the state and about 30,000 members Liz Zima, a senior philanthropy officer with the Kent Hospital Foundation, said that the hospital has raised more than $1 million since launching its capital campaign about a year ago. The goal is for the 2009 opening of a center that would give residents in the central and southern part of the state access to emergency angioplasty services. 
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