Borrower StoriesCommunity Partners How Kaua’i Federal Credit Union’s Rent Relief Program Has Stabilized Local Small Businesses—And Local Culture The COVID-19 pandemic turned Chef John Paul Gordon’s life upside down. One day, John Paul…MattSeptember 19, 2023
Borrower StoriesCommunity Partners How Freedom First Credit Union Is Leveraging Creative, Character-Based Lending To Approve Community Members For Auto Loans When Norma Fralin needed a car in 2016, she didn’t know where to go. She’d…MattAugust 10, 2023
Borrower Stories How Jayme Murray is Creating Food Sovereignty for the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. Long before the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation was established in South Dakota in 1889, the…MattAugust 9, 2023
Borrower Stories Meet David Akinniyi, the Baltimore Developer who’s Transforming his Adopted City with Each New Building Once down on its luck, Baltimore, Maryland is now on a rebound. One entrepreneur helping…MattJuly 6, 2023
Borrower Stories Meet Flywheel Development, The Company Striving To Create Sustainable Communities In Washington D.C. Jessica Pitts and John Miller founded their company, Flywheel Development, in 2014 to implement sustainability…MattMay 12, 2023
Borrower Stories How Riff Raff Brewing Company Remains Down-to-Earth As Its Earth-Powered Beer Takes Off Like most homebrewers, when Jason Cox began making his own beer in 2005, he daydreamed…MattMay 10, 2023
Borrower Stories Meet DREAM, Where Students Are Family, Families Are Community, And Community Is Front-And-Center Harlem RBI was founded in 1991, when a group of volunteers transformed an abandoned, garbage-strewn…MattApril 4, 2023
Borrower Stories Meet Chung H Lee, The Small Business Owner Helping New York Metro’s Graying Residents Age In Place It was 2014, and Chung was tired of traveling for work. The business consultant’s job…MattFebruary 24, 2023
Borrower StoriesCommunity Partners How First Southwest Bank Is Helping Community Banks Become Better Banks In 2013, Kent Curtis had a question to answer. As the president and CEO of…MattDecember 12, 2022
Borrower Stories How One Detroit Credit Union is Giving its Members a Second Chance Catherine Dorsey had always dreamed of becoming a nurse. In 2016, the Detroit resident took…MattNovember 3, 2022