Log in One for all We’re strengthening our communities and serving the needs of our customers through real, personal relationships. Here Matters The best way to ensure the long-term health of our bank is to help ensure the health of the communities we serve. That means more than taking deposits, providing loans, or earning the right to the next transaction. It also means serving with our time, talent, and resources. At Synovus, we express our commitment to communities through Here Matters, our community outreach program. Here Matters builds on a century-plus legacy of service to local communities as the bank of here, focusing Synovus’ volunteer and financial contributions in three areas: education, needs-based opportunities, and health and wellness. Synovus team members demonstrate that Here Matters through footprint-wide projects in the spring and fall — and through rapid response to event-driven needs. Corporate Donations From human trafficking and COVID-19 response, to racial equality and affordable housing, we express our commitment to communities through Here Matters, our community outreach program. In 2021, Synovus will award more than $3MM to more than 500 organizations in our footprint. As part of these efforts, our online corporate donation application process resulted in significant dollars for 189 agencies doing amazing work in our five-state footprint. Markets receiving funds Alabama Birmingham Huntsville Jasper Mobile Montgomery Phenix City Prattville Tuscaloosa Florida Fort Lauderdale Fort Myers Fort Walton Immokalee Jacksonville Miami Naples Orlando Pensacola Port St. Lucie Sarasota Tallahassee Tampa Venice Brevard Co. Broward Co. Palm Beach Co. Georgia Albany Americus Athens Atlanta Augusta Brunswick Calhoun Columbus Cuthbert Dalton Darien LaGrange Macon Marietta Monroe Peachtree Corners Roswell Savannah Thomasville Tifton Valdosta Dekalb Co. Fulton Co. South Carolina Anderson Camden Charleston Columbia Greenville Spartanburg Tennessee Nashville 2021 Corporate Donation Recipients CRA eligible recipients’ names are bolded. Alabama A Plus Education Partnership Black Warrior Council, Boy Scouts of America Care Assurance System for the Aging and Homebound of Madison County Community Service Programs of West Alabama Dumas Wesley Community Center East Alabama Chamber Foundation Freshwater Land Trust Girl Scouts of North-Central Alabama Habitat for Humanity of Autauga Co. & Chilton Co. Habitat for Humanity of Phenix City Momentum Project Greene Light Russell County Child Advocacy Center The Bell Center for Early Intervention Programs Tuscaloosa’s One Place U.S. Space & Rocket Center Education Foundation United Methodist Children’s Home Walker College Foundation WMU Foundation Woodlawn Foundation YouthServe, Inc. Florida Achieve Escambia Big Bend Habitat for Humanity Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwest Florida Boys & Girls Club of Collier County Boys & Girls Clubs of Sarasota County Boys Town North Florida Bright Bridge Ministries Catalyst Miami Cathedral Arts Project Catholic Charities of Northwest Florida Champions for Children Children First Clara White Mission Community Partners of South Florida Covenant Care Earn to Learn Florida Eckerd Connects El Sol El Sol, Jupiter’s Neighborhood Resource Center Escambia County Public Schools Foundation Feeding Northeast Florida Florida Community Loan Fund Florida Dreamcatchers Florida Prosperity Partnership Fort Lauderdale Independence Training Education Freedom Life Compass Goodwill Industries of Southwest Florida Habitat for Humanity of Broward Habitat for Humanity of Greater Miami Habitat for Humanity of Hillsborough County Habitat for Humanity of Jacksonville Habitat For Humanity of South Palm Beach County Habitat for Humanity South Sarasota County Helping Abused Neglected Disadvantaged Youth Hispanic Heritage Scholarship Fund of Orlando Hope CommUnity Center Housing Foundation of America, Inc. Humane Society of Sarasota County Junior Achievement of Greater Miami Junior Achievement of the Space Coast Lighthouse for the Visually Impaired & Blind M.I.S.S. of the Treasure Coast Magdalene’s, Inc. Meals On Wheels of Sarasota Meals on Wheels Plus of Manatee Milagro Foundation Incorporated Milk and Honey Outreach Ministries Neighborhood Renaissance Pensacola Children’s Chorus Pensacola Opera Pines of Sarasota Foundation Prospera Rebuilding Together of Central Florida Residential Options of Florida South Florida Wellness Network Tampa Bay Community Development Corp. The Immokalee Foundation The Jobs Partnership of Florida UNF College of Education and Human Services UNF Foundation United Against Poverty, Inc. Voices for Children Warrior Rising Waterfront Rescue Mission Youth Haven, Inc. Georgia Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College Foundation Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs American Heart Association CSRA Andrew College Athens Area Diaper Bank Athens Area Habitat for Humanity Atlanta Ronald McDonald House Charities Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeast Georgia Boys & Girls Club of Thomasville Calhoun-Gordon Council for a Literate Community Calumet Center for Healing and Attachment, Inc. Camp Twin Lakes Chess & Community Conference, Inc. College of Coastal Georgia Foundation Columbus 2025 Columbus Economic Development Corporation (CEDC) Columbus Hospice of Georgia & Alabama Columbus State University Columbus Teen Challenge Communities in Schools of Augusta Richmond Co. Dalton State College Foundation DASH for LaGrange Enterprise Community Partners Food Bank of Northeast Georgia Georgia Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Georgia FFA Georgia Justice Project Girls Inc. of Columbus-Phenix Russell Good Samaritan Health Center of Cobb Goodwill Industries of Middle Georgia Greenbriar Children’s Center Grove Park Foundation Habitat for Humanity of North Central Georgia Hand in Hand Harmony House Domestic Violence Shelter Historic Columbus Liberty House of Albany Lyndon House Arts Foundation Macon Housing Authority Foundation Macon Volunteer Clinic Magnolia Manor McIntosh County Schools Meals on Wheels Atlanta Medical College of Georgia Foundation Mercer Medica lSchool Morningstar Children and Family Services Morningstar Urban Development Morris Museum of Art Muscogee County School District for Reach GA Nehemiah Project Community Development Operation HOPE Pastoral Institute Phoebe Sumter Foundation Piedmont Athens Regional Foundation Piedmont Regional/John B. Amos Prevent Child Abuse Athens/Brightpaths REACH Georgia Foundation Revved Up Kids Right from the Start Ronald McDonald House Charities of Augusta Score Columbus GA Second Harvest Food Bank Sherwood Baptist Church | Hope Center South Georgia Technical College Foundation SOWEGA Council on Aging STAR Foundation of Coastal Georgia The Cancer Foundation The Columbus Museum The Georgia Heirs Property Law Center The Scholarship Academy Thomas University Tift County Schools Truth Spring, Inc. Twin Cedars Youth & Family Services UGA United Way of Gordon County United Way of Chattahoochee Valley University Health Care Foundation Valdosta-Lowndes County Habitat for Humanity Walton Forward Youth Orchestra of Greater Columbus South Carolina Anderson Free Clinic Boys and Girls Clubs of Kershaw County Cancer Assoc. of Spartanburg Co. & Cherokee Co. Growing Home Southeast Hub City Farmers Market International African American Museum Kershaw County Housing Authority Lowcountry Food Bank Midlands Technical College Foundation Mobile Meal Service of Spartanburg County Public Education Partners Senior Resources, Inc. South Carolina Children’s Theatre (SCCT) South Carolina Community Loan Fund United Way of Kershaw County Tennessee Monroe Harding National Museum of African American Music Benefitting all our markets Raise the Banner United Negro College Fund (UNCF) COVID-19 Although social distancing during the COVID-19 crisis eliminated the in-person, hands-on approach we usually take toward community service, throughout the pandemic, we were honored to support community agencies and people in need across our footprint, including matching contributions to the American Red Cross, financial support for Feeding America, and meals for first responders and front-line health care providers. A more expansive list of the organizations we supported during COVID-19 is here. The southwest Georgia city of Albany was overwhelmed by COVID-19 in the spring, becoming one of the hardest-hit areas in the country on a per-capita basis. Synovus donated $25,000 to COVID-19 relief efforts at Phoebe Putney Health System, a not-for-profit integrated health care delivery system that serves more than 500,000 residents in southwest Georgia. Synovus’ contribution helped provide essential support to Phoebe Putney employees and their emergency response efforts to keep the community healthy and safe. In addition, Synovus provided more than 1,900 meals to the hospital’s COVID-19 and Emergency Center staff as well as Dougherty County EMS workers throughout the month of April. Delivering thanks and meals in Albany, GA. In Nashville, Synovus partnered with a local sandwich shop to provide meals for more than 1,000 medical personnel at St. Thomas-Midtown and Vanderbilt hospitals. The meals were delivered in brown paper bags and included a note of appreciation from Tennessee Division CEO Rob McNeilly. Also in Nashville, Angela Rice, a senior commercial assistant, knitted mask extenders for health care staff at NorthCrest Medical Center in Springfield, TN. Following the delivery of her batch of mask extenders, NorthCrest Medical Center requested 100 more! In South Florida, Retail Market Manager Lina Figueroa regularly volunteers with Gang Alternative, a Miami-Dade County nonprofit dedicated to providing underserved children and families with alternatives to crime, violence, dependency, and delinquency through a holistic approach to academic, physical, social, economic, and spiritual development. Before Easter, Lina and several friends and family members helped Gang Alternative assemble 55 Easter bags bursting with holiday meal supplies and candy-filled plastic eggs. Lina and her husband delivered the bags to families in Little Haiti the day before Easter. Retail Market Manager Lina Figueroa snaps a photo while delivering Easter meal supplies to Little Haiti, one of Miami’s most underserved communities. In September 2020, as branches began to restore walk-in service and team members started returning to the office, colleagues around the footprint raised nearly $70,000 for community agencies and non-profits, and collected and delivered more than 15,500 bottles of water, 8,880 school supply items, and 7,300 meals for schools and food banks in the communities we serve. Organizations we supported in the fall 2020 Here Matters drive included Action Ministries' Feed the Hungry Campaign, the Alzheimer’s Association, P.A.C.K. (People of Action Caring for Kids), Opportunity Place, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Valiant Cross Academy, McKamey Animal Shelter, Athens Area Diaper Bank, United Way of Northeast Georgia, and Northeast Georgia Council on Domestic Violence. Immokalee Branch team members pose with cases of water collected for Lake Trafford Elementary School in Immokalee, Florida. Camden, South Carolina, team members support the United Way of Kershaw County Mobile Nutrition Center. Nashville team members volunteer at Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee. A portion of approximately 300 desk dividers provided by Synovus at two Title 1 elementary schools in Columbus, Georgia. Feeding Our Future During the “Feeding Our Future” food drive in the fall of 2019, team members collected nonperishable food items and hosted financial literacy classes for more than 50 food banks and agency partners throughout our footprint. Team members delivered more than 61,000 meals to food banks and logged over 260 hours providing financial education lessons to more than 1,000 participants. Feeding our future in Hendersonville, TN,… … and in Columbus, GA. In 2019, team members collected more than 15,600 bottles of water, three tons of peanut butter and jelly, 1,170 books, and volunteered for more than 50 projects across our footprint during our spring Here Matters Outreach. Some of the community organizations we supported during the spring project included more than 28 local food pantries in Atlanta, City of Lights in Jasper, AL, Manna Food Bank in Pensacola, and Harvest Hope Food Bank in Columbia. In Columbus, students from Truth Spring Academy, Fox Elementary and residents of the North Highland neighborhood joined us for a block party, celebrating our month-long Here Matters partnership with Truth Spring Academy. Synovus team members served breakfast to all students three days a week and helped procure supplies for students and teachers. In Montgomery, team members joined the scholars at Valiant Cross Academy to learn about financial responsibility and operating a small business for the school’s community garden. Simple Needs In 2018, team members collected nearly 28,000 diapers and more than 4,500 10-item toiletry kits (including shampoo, soap, deodorant, shaving cream, razors, etc.) for Synovus’ first Simple Needs Project. Boxes of diapers, baby wipes, toothpaste, mouthwash—73,000 items in all— were assembled into kits, packed, and delivered to more than 80 community service agencies across our footprint, including Nashville Rescue Mission, Tuscaloosa One Place, St. Pete Free Clinic, and Transitions Homeless Center. Meeting Simple Needs in Columbus, GA Team members also collected nearly 5,000 children’s books for more than a dozen community, education, and literacy organizations including Books for Keeps in Athens, Georgia; United Way of Nashville; and the Boys and Girls Clubs of the Chattahoochee Valley. Columbus Market Executive Heath Schondelmayer reads with Boys and Girls Club members. We also celebrated military members, public safety officers, and first responders as part of an “Honoring Our Heroes” outreach in 2018. Picnic lunches and meal deliveries to fire stations and precincts were provided to on-duty first responders throughout the footprint. Fire, police and EMS from Columbus/Muscogee County, GA, and Russell and Lee Counties, AL, gathered for a picnic at Synovus headquarters. Not every initiative is planned in advance. After Hurricanes Irma and Michael ripped through Florida and South Georgia in 2017 and 2018, respectively, team members in Columbus dispatched relief convoys. Using branches in impacted markets as staging areas, the team distributed hundreds of cases of water, gas generators, lumber, carpentry tools, and other supplies, and provided assistance with clean-up efforts. Around the footprint, team members raised more than $26,000 and the company contributed an additional $16,000 for distribution to team members with immediate needs and for community relief efforts. Synovus team members clear trees in Lee County and Collier County, Florida. As part of Here Matters, Synovus provides financial and volunteer contributions to local agencies such as United Way, which we support in many of the communities in our footprint, and Feeding America food banks. We also have long-standing relationships with many elementary, middle, and high schools as part of Here Matters’ focus on education. And Synovus’ team member-funded Jack Parker Scholarship fund has helped hundreds of team members’ children attend college. Honoring our Team Matters Leteria Waters, 2019 William B. Turner Community Impact Award Winner Leteria Waters, a 25-year Synovus veteran, has delivered hundreds of financial presentations to individuals of all ages and volunteered with dozens of civic and professional organizations in Huntsville, AL, where she serves as retail market manager. John Clidas, 2019 William B. Turner Community Impact Award Winner In South Florida, John Clidas, relationship manager, has a long-standing passion for youth and young adults, whom he has served through his work with the Boys and Girls Club of Broward County and The George Snow Scholarship Fund. Want to apply for a corporate donation? Learn more Environmental, Social, and Governance Our commitments Want to connect with Community Outreach? Troy Jackson troyjackson@synovus.com Synovus Community Outreach in 2020 by the numbers $1,000,000: contributed by team members and corporate giving to the United Way $110,500: Jack Parker Scholarship dollars awarded through 132 scholarships 24,000: volunteer hours supporting Here Matters community projects 4,100: Here Matters community projects completed Customer Service Contact us Find a location Safety and security Privacy Website terms of use Accessible Banking Synovus Investor Relations Careers Media Community outreach Follow us: Banking products are provided by Synovus Bank, Member FDIC. Synovus Bank, NMLS #408043, is an Equal Housing Lender. Synovus Bank, Member FDIC, is an Equal Housing Lender and lends in the states of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina. This communication is directed to properties in those states. Loans subject to approval including credit approval. Synovus Bank, NMLS #408043. 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