Baby gibbon born at Saugus on Christmas Day, 2011, and named for the late GCS founder, Alan Mootnick.
All of those clicks on Facebook added up for the Gibbon Conservation Center in Saugus, which will receive a $10,000 grant from Chase this year, the bank announced Thursday.
The Gibbon Conservation Center, founded in the Santa Clarita Valley in the 1970s by the late Alan Mootnick to protect the small southeast Asian primates, was one of 196 charities around the country selected by Facebook users and Chase online customers to receive a cash award through the 2012 Chase Community Giving program.
The New York-based bank launched the annual grants in 2009.
This year’s big winner was Boston’s Egyptian Cancer Network, which received more than 90,000 votes and is getting $250,000. ECN promotes cancer education, research and care, as well as medical infrastructure in Egypt.
Ten runners-up will get $100,000 each, 35 get $50,000, fifty get $20,000 and 100 get $10,000 – for a total of $5 million.
Roughly 30,000 charities were nominated, and all eligible nominees will receive an equal share of an additional $2.5 million, Chase officials said.
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