Make an Appointment Locations + Hours Help Rates Security Email Us LOG IN Search for: PERSONAL BUSINESS BELIEVING ABOUT BANKING IS BELIEVING NEWS & EVENTS Filter PRESS ROOM GSB HIRES NEW DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES Gorham Savings Bank has named Brian Robinson as its new SVP, Director of Human Resources. Robinson was most recently Director of Talent Strategy and Deputy Title IX Coordinator at Bowdoin College. During his tenure, Robinson designed and implemented recruitment and retention programs with a focus on diversity, inclusion, and equity. He oversaw employee performance, conducted... Read More WHAT'S NEW GSB LEASES SPACE TO GORHAM ARTS ALLIANCE Gorham Savings Bank is pleased to announce a unique local partnership with the Gorham Arts Alliance (GAA) to utilize the first floor of its Operations Center in Gorham for their school aged enrichment programs, homeschool and special needs art and dance programs, as well as adult education classes. The Arts Alliance was looking for a... Read More PRESS ROOM COLLABORATION WITH REVISION ENERGY TO GENERATE ENOUGH CLEAN POWER FOR NEARLY ALL GSB LOCATIONS Gorham Savings Bank, a leading Southern Maine financial services institution, announced today it has broken ground on a 1.1-million-dollar solar array that when complete will offset virtually all of its electricity costs across its 12 branches and several office locations, including its 29,000 square foot Operations Center. The installation will generate 1 million kilowatt-hours (kWh)... Read More PRESS ROOM VETERAN COMMERCIAL LENDER KIM DONNELLY PROMOTED TO DIRECTOR OF WEALTH AND BUSINESS SERVICES Gorham Savings Bank, a leading Southern Maine financial services institution, has promoted Kim Donnelly to Executive Vice President, Director of Wealth and Business Services. Donnelly comes to the role with more than 25 years of banking experience working directly with customers. She’s led the Business Banking division since joining GSB in 2011, shepherding its growth... Read More PRESS ROOM LETTER TO THE EDITOR: NEW CHILD CARE LAW AN INVESTMENT IN MAINE PEOPLE, ECONOMY This letter originally appeared in The Portland Press Herald. Thank you to Gov. Mills, Senate President Troy Jackson and others, including the editorial board of this paper, for supporting L.D. 1712. Now law, it will help more Maine families access affordable, high-quality child care programs. It is a critical investment in Maine people and Maine’s economy. As your... Read More PRESS ROOM HIGHBYTE NAMED 2021 LAUNCHPAD WINNER June 2, 2021 The 2021 grand prize went to Portland-based DataOps software company HighByte. GSB gives $70,000 in no-strings attached grants to small businesses. HighByte took the top prize at Gorham Savings Bank’s LaunchPad competition and its corresponding $50,000 grant. The company was chosen among five finalists who pitched Tuesday afternoon to an independent panel... Read More PRESS ROOM GSB’S 2021 LAUNCHPAD FINALISTS ANNOUNCED From a pool of nearly 150 applicants, five rose to the top and will move on as finalists to the next round of our eighth annual LaunchPad small business competition: a livestream, in-studio pitch competition taking place Tuesday, June 1 at 3:30pm. Five additional businesses have been chosen to submit a 60-second pitch video for... Read More PRESS ROOM BRIAN O’COIN JOINS GSB COMMERCIAL BANKING TEAM We are pleased to announce Brian O’Coin has joined our Commercial Banking team as vice president, commercial loan officer. O’Coin comes to Gorham Savings Bank with more than 16 years of expertise in commercial lending, having worked with customers across Southern Maine and New Hampshire ranging from small, local businesses to regional middle-market companies. Most... Read More PRESS ROOM LETTER TO THE EDITOR: LACK OF ACCESS TO QUALITY EARLY LEARNING ECONOMIC ISSUE FOR MAINE This letter originally appeared in The Portland Press Herald. Your recent news article (Jan. 27) and editorial (Jan. 29) on a report titled “Early Childhood Programs’ Scarcity Undermines Maine’s Rural Communities” caught my attention. From a business perspective, the lack of access to quality early learning and child care programs faced by rural children and... Read More PRESS ROOM LAUNCHPAD 2021 APPLICATION OPENS MARCH 1 Gorham Savings Bank will begin accepting applications on March 1 for its eighth annual LaunchPad small business competition, the premier event of its type in Maine, which will be a livestream event this year. In the competition, promising small businesses will compete for a $50,000 grant from the Bank. “We’re truly excited to bring LaunchPad... Read More PRESS ROOM NEW PROGRAM WILL PROVIDE AGING MAINERS WITH AT-HOME ACCESS TO HEALTH AND WELLNESS SERVICES The Westbrook Housing Authority (WHA) and the University of New England Center for Excellence in Aging & Health (UNE CEAH) have signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a three-year, multi-phase student placement and research partnership serving seniors aging in place in affordable housing, made possible by a $20,000 grant generously provided by Gorham Savings... Read More PRESS ROOM MAINE DISTRICT OFFICE PRESENTS GSB WITH SBA 504 3RD PARTY LENDER OF THE YEAR AWARD Gorham Savings Bank was awarded the U.S. Small Business Administration’s 504 3rd Party Lender of the Year in Maine for completing 10 504 loans totaling more than $2.2 million which, when combined with SBA’s portion of the loans, represented almost $4.7 million in financing and more than 60 jobs created or retained. SBA 504 loans... Read More PRESS ROOM MAKE CHANGE HELPS SUPPORT MAINE’S MINORITY-OWNED BUSINESSES Gorham Savings Bank announced the launch of an innovative, mission-based checking account and debit card called Make ChangeSM, designed to support Maine’s minority-owned businesses. How Make ChangeSM Works For every qualified purchase a Gorham Savings Bank customer makes using their Make ChangeSM debit card, the Bank will donate $.10 to an earmarked fund. Those funds will... Read More PRESS ROOM VIRTUAL GSB MAINE MARATHON RAISES MORE THAN $250,000 The Marr Foundation raised $212,000 alone, exceeding its goal of $200,000 Despite being run virtually over 2-weeks this year, the 2020 Gorham Savings Bank Maine Marathon, Half Marathon, and Relay, exceeded fundraising expectations, finishing strong with just over $254,000. Nearly 50 percent of race participants made a donation or donated their registration fee to charity – a 40... Read More PRESS ROOM GORHAM SAVINGS BANK MAINE MARATHON GOES VIRTUAL Due to the ongoing uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 Gorham Savings Bank Maine Marathon, Half Marathon, and Relay, originally scheduled for Sunday, October 4, will take place virtually over two weeks. Title sponsor Gorham Savings Bank will cover all virtual race costs incurred so that every virtual entry fee dollar can be donated... Read More WHAT'S NEW GSB’S LAUNCHPAD OPENS MARCH 1 Kate McAleer (founder, Bixby & Co.), Becky McKinnell (founder, iBec Creative) and Rich Peterson (president, MaineHealth and CEO, Maine Medical Center) will help judge this year’s competition Gorham Savings Bank will begin accepting applications on March 1 for its eighth annual LaunchPad small business competition. In the competition, the premier event of its type in... Read More PRESS ROOM WHY THESE BANKS ARE SUPPORTING WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS This article originally appeared in Independent Banker. In the past half of a century, women have gone from a small part of the business community to a significant—and fast-growing—segment. In fact, women start an average of more than 1,800 businesses across the country each day. How can community banks form mutually beneficial relationships with this... Read More PRESS ROOM CATHERINE CLOUDMAN JOINS GSB’S BOARD OF DIRECTORS Gorham Savings Bank, a leading Southern Maine financial services institution, announced that Catherine Cloudman has been named to the bank’s board of directors effective December 1. “Catherine brings a wealth of financial and business management experience from her time as an owner, chief financial officer (CFO), and board member of several Maine companies.” said Steve... Read More PRESS ROOM GSB’S PROGRAM HELPS EARLY-STAGE BUSINESSES GAIN FINANCIAL CONFIDENCE Regional businesses partake in third session of community bank’s Forward with Funding program Thirteen small businesses including KinoTek, Fyood Kitchen, OpBox, Hemphill’s Horse, Seed and Saddlery, and GTFO Escape Room recently participated in a two-day, hands-on workshop created to help Maine entrepreneurs better understand their businesses’ financials. The program, called Forward with Funding, was created... Read More WHAT'S NEW OUR NEWEST BRANCH IS NOW OPEN IN YARMOUTH Gorham Savings Bank has opened its newest branch in the historic Grand Trunk Railroad Depot on Main Street Yarmouth, after a year-long restoration project. The restoration project is a collaboration with historic preservation property developer and owner of the Depot, Ford Reiche, who has rehabilitated four other properties listed on the National Register of Historic... Read More PRESS ROOM GORHAM SAVINGS BANK TO CONSOLIDATE AND FOCUS ON MEETING THE GROWING DEMAND IN GREATER PORTLAND AREA Gorham Savings Bank has notified its customers of plans to close its Kennebunk location on November 1, 2019, citing geography and administrative challenges as the primary reasons. “After a long evaluation we found Kennebunk, while a very attractive market, is simply too far outside our primary geographic footprint to operate, administer and staff satisfactorily,” Gorham... Read More PRESS ROOM GSB MAINE MARATHON SELECTS FIVE MAINE NONPROFITS AS 2019 BENEFICIARIES Over $100,000 will be donated to local nonprofits again this year Bob Dunfey, the volunteer race director for The Maine Marathon and Steve deCastro, president and CEO of Gorham Savings Bank, title sponsor since 2010, announced today that Eastern Trail Alliance, Rippleffect, Girls on the Run, WinterKids and Portland Community Squash are the five primary... Read More PRESS ROOM STEVE DECASTRO, ON THE RECORD WITH MAINEBIZ This article originally appeared in Mainebiz. Written by Renee Cordes. Photo by Jim Neuger. Steve deCastro is president and CEO of Gorham Savings Bank, which has over $1 billion in assets, 13 branches in Maine and close to 200 employees. DeCastro, who joined Gorham Savings in July 2016 and became CEO on Jan. 1, sat down with... Read More PRESS ROOM KIM DONNELLY TALKS ABOUT PREPARING FOR A BUSINESS LOAN This article originally appeared in Mainebiz. Written by Kim Donnelly. If you own a business, you know what it’s like to see — and want to seize — an opportunity. And often, such opportunities require an infusion of capital. By applying a smart business loan to a smart business idea, you can jump on that... Read More PRESS ROOM THE APPLICATION FOR LAUNCHPAD IS NOW OPEN Local entrepreneur Ford Reiche joins as an event judge in this year’s business competition Gorham Savings Bank is now accepting applications for its seventh annual LaunchPad small business competition. In the competition, the premier event of its type in Maine, promising small businesses will compete for a $50,000 grant from the bank. The application opens today... Read More PRESS ROOM WISH TREE PROGRAM – NOVEMBER WISHES GRANTED 79 Maine families and individuals were recipients of community member wishes totaling $150,000. The initiative, called the GSB Wish Tree, was conceived and implemented as a way to give back to the community as the bank marks its 150th anniversary. The bank received an overwhelming number of wishes, bringing to light the many challenges Mainers... Read More PRESS ROOM GSB PRESIDENT STEVE DECASTRO NAMED CEO Gorham Savings Bank has named current president, Steve deCastro, its new chief executive officer (CEO). He takes over for Chris Emmons, who is retiring after 15 years of service with Gorham Savings. The transition was initiated in early 2018 as part of the bank’s succession plan. deCastro joined GSB in July 2016 as executive vice... Read More PRESS ROOM WISH TREE PROGRAM – SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER WISHES GRANTED Gorham Savings Bank granted 14 wishes in September and October totaling nearly $20,000 as part of its 150th anniversary Wish Tree program. With a goal of granting $150,000 worth of wishes in 150 days, the latest wishes granted included lumber for an elderly Standish woman whose neighbor wanted to build her a porch, eye exam... Read More PRESS ROOM WISH TREE PROGRAM – JULY & AUGUST WISHES GRANTED Gorham Savings Bank granted 20 wishes in July and August totaling $20,000 as part of its 150th anniversary Wish Tree program. With a goal of granting $150,000 worth of wishes in 150 days, the first and second round of wishes fulfilled included snow plow service this winter for a working single mother in Waterboro, plane... Read More PRESS ROOM GSB TO CELEBRATE 150 YEARS BY GRANTING $150,000 WORTH OF WISHES OVER 150 DAYS Gorham Savings Bank, in celebration of its 150th anniversary, announced it will grant up to $150,000 of wishes over 150 days as part of a community giving program called Wish Tree. Putting their own spin on the age-old tradition, the Bank placed a Wish Tree in each of their branches and is inviting customers... Read More POST NAVIGATION LOAD MORE 1-207-839-4796 1-800-492-8120 Routing #: 211274573 NMLS #454705 © 2021 Gorham Savings Bank Privacy Policy Terms of Use Online Banking Security Statement Accessibility Statement