Stories
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Supporting families and nurturing Ojibwe culture, C’s Daycare stands out in Minnesota’s child care landscape
Banks partner with a community non-profit to help a small business owner upgrade and expand her child care facility.
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‘Tell me the story of your life.’ Alex Fuentes listens deeply as part of the American Voices Project
The American Voices Project began as a way to study US poverty. It has grown into a trove of personal narrative and oral history of how people across the US experienced the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Shonterria Charleston supports rural communities, even from a parking lot
For Housing Assistance Council, rural development issues include broadband access and helping veterans fund home improvement projects.
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Community bank provides critical capital so small businesses can stay afloat
CDFI helps two business owners in Philadelphia’s Chinatown find a lifeline, and a partner, right in their own backyard.
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Banks help Tulsa embrace a promising future
From job training and industry-recognized skills certificates to job placement services and financial literacy education, get to know one program helping low- and moderate-income residents of Oklahoma and southwest Missouri enter the workforce.
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Building wealth with financial education and homeownership
“Our lending partners have made huge financial commitments to increase minority homeownership.” Carrie Davis of Wealth Watchers shares how the Community Reinvestment Act has helped banks meet the needs of communities.
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‘The future … remains unpredictable’: Nonprofit and community lender team up for Philly’s Chinatown
When the COVID-19 pandemic spread here, the Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation used Paycheck Protection Program money to help residents and businesses. More support will be necessary.
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‘Like Family’: Struggling Small Businesses Appreciate Community Bank’s Reaching Out
“Customers told us, ‘You saved our businesses. You saved jobs. We wouldn’t have made it if you guys weren’t here and didn’t walk us through this.'”
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‘A Real Trying Time’: Community Lender Gets Much-Needed Dough to Cheesesteak Restaurant
Kansas City’s Steak’M Take’M needed help when the pandemic paralyzed the economy. A lender supporting minority-owned businesses provided PPP relief, made to order.
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‘A Fish with Very Little Water’: Businesses Deep in the Desert Qualify for PPP Loans with Help from Rural Lender
Germaine Simonson owns essential businesses in Arizona’s Navajo Nation. Parched for support, she turned to a rural lender to get through the pandemic dry spell.