Trustmark associates have chosen to work for a company they can trust to support not only their career paths, but also efforts that are important to them personally and that enhance the communities where they live. Like our associates, socially conscious shareholders, customers, and communities choose to build relationships with organizations that share their values – organizations they can trust. Papers shredded by Trustmark and at Trustmark-hosted community shredding events are recycled, saving trees and landfill space. Trustmark’s stewardship of the environment includes internal conservation practices and activities in the communities Trustmark serves. Nurture Our Future partnered with Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library to distribute free books to children in Laurel and Jones County, Mississippi. Each child registered in the program receives a free book every month from birth until their fifth birthday. Nurture Our Future also donates books to local pediatricians, who present the books to children during their annual wellness visits. Before they find their way to these little readers, these books pass through the Laurel Trustmark location. Trustmark donates office space to Nurture Our Future where the books are catalogued and stored for distribution. Trustmark also donated gently used furniture to the startup nonprofit, which launched in June 2021. Bookshelves that once held financial reports are now lined with beloved children’s tales. Repurposed work tables serve as literary display centers, and chairs that once welcomed Trustmark customers now welcome little ones for story time. Now that’s a storybook ending.