Community Partners For Opportunities Credit Union, Energy Efficiency Loans Help Low-Income Individuals Save Money—And Combat Climate Change Over the span of 48 hours in mid-July 2023, most of Vermont was battered with…Matt
Community Partners From Farm To City: How ChoiceOne Bank is Championing Michigan Agribusiness ChoiceOne Bank’s vision isn’t a secret: it’s front and center on its website. “We want…Matt
Community Partners How Asian Bank Is Providing Personalized Support To Philadelphia’s Small Business Owners In a word, Tina Miao-Granatt would describe her life as “blessed.” Her family moved from…Matt
Community Partners Meet Beardstown Savings, The Community Bank That’s Speaking The Same Language As Its Multilingual Community Rich Eckert never expected to become the president and CEO of a community bank. The…Matt
Community Partners How Labor Credit Union Is Creating Opportunities And Expanding Its Impact With Dora Financial Thomas Domingue is passionate about opportunities. More specifically, the CEO of Labor Credit Union is…Matt
Community PartnersLow Income Designated Credit Union How Freedom First’s Affordable Housing Program Is Taking A Non-Conforming Approach To Homeownership Allison Wolf got her start in the financial services industry as a college student in…Matt
Community Partners How NYU Federal Credit Union Is Forging Partnerships To Support Their Members Mira Ness comes from humble beginnings: in her words, she was born into a very…Matt
CNoteCommunity Partners Creating an Impact Framework for Impact-Driven Depository Institutions Impact-driven banks and credit unions provide vital services to under-resourced communities. However, in CNote’s extensive…petra
Borrower StoriesCommunity PartnersLow Income Designated Credit Union 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…Matt
Community Partners How Indian Land Capital Company Is Strengthening Tribal Sovereignty, One Loan At A Time Rjay Brunkow, an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, has dedicated…Matt
Community PartnersLow Income Designated Credit Union How Comunidad Latina Federal Credit Union Is Empowering Undocumented Immigrants to Achieve Financial Stability For many, Azul Sanchez’s story is a familiar one. According to Azul, as the daughter…Matt
Borrower StoriesCommunity PartnersLow Income Designated Credit Union 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…Matt
Community PartnersLow Income Designated Credit Union Meet NorthPark Community Credit Union, The Country’s First And Only Fully Virtual Credit Union How does an infant with hearing loss, an ill anesthesiologist, and a Chapter 13 bankruptcy…Matt
Community PartnersLow Income Designated Credit Union New Covenant Dominion Credit Union’s Small Staff Has Big Dreams For The Bronx—And Beyond Since New Covenant Dominion Credit Union came to life in 2007, Rachel Macarthy has worn…Matt
Community PartnersLow Income Designated Credit Union How Opportunities Credit Union Is Setting Up Itself—And Its Community—For Financial Success From a young age, Kate Laud dreamed about someday being a CEO. At Dartmouth, Kate…Matt
CDFIsCommunity PartnersEqualityImpact Investing Revolutionizing sustainable growth: Black-led financial institutions unleash potential with capital access and financial resources Authored by CNote's Director of Due Diligence, Julia Phipps In the U.S. much of how…petra
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…Matt
Community Partners How Chicago Community Loan Fund Is Filling Lending Gaps To Grow Wealth When Wendell Harris found himself out of a job in 2013, he wasn’t exactly sure…Matt
Borrower StoriesCommunity Partners Meet The Disability Opportunity Fund, The CDFI Behind West Virginia’s First Fully Accessible Hotel Charlie Hammerman didn’t aspire to start his own CDFI; however, since his daughter was born…Matt
Community Partners How VCC Bank Is Using Mission-Driven Lending To Strengthen The Commonwealth When Virginia Community Capital was established by a group of bipartisan state legislators in 2006,…Matt
Community PartnersLow Income Designated Credit Union Meet Kaua’i Federal Credit Union, The CDFI Investing In Its Island Community “I never thought I would end up working in a financial institution,” says Ivory Lloyd…Matt
Borrower StoriesCommunity Partners How Metropolitan Economic Development Association Is Scaling Itself To Shrink Minnesota’s Racial Wealth Gap Over the course of their careers as inpatient nurses, Murwo Elmi, Ikraan Abdulle, Farhia Abdulahi,…Matt
Community Partners How Capital For Change Uses CNote To Create More Possibilities In Its Community For the better part of 15 years, Charles Bodie worked for a large, multinational investment…Matt
Community Partners Easy As C-C-C: How Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs Uses Capital, Coaching, and Connections to Help Georgia’s Small Business Owners Thrive Martina Edwards knows what it’s like to be given an opportunity to break down barriers.…Matt
CNoteCommunity Partners Authentic and Shareable Impact: Best Practices for Credit Unions On May 24th, 2022 CNote hosted a webinar alongside CUNA Strategic Services where they discussed…petra
Community PartnersLow Income Designated Credit Union Meet Education Credit Union, Whose Scholastic Roots Sprout Innovative Programs In The Texas Panhandle While Education Credit Union (ECU) may be 86 years old, it’s finding new ways to…Matt
Community Partners Meet Michelle Corson, ‘The Car Lady’ Behind the CDFI That Gets Clients On the Road Since she was a little girl in Texas, Michelle Corson has always loved cars, something…Matt
Borrower StoriesCommunity Partners These Maine CDFIs Are Showing Mainstream Lenders How to Open Doors For Muslim Borrowers When Yassin arrived in western Maine in 2008 as a refugee from Djibouti, he knew…Matt
CNoteCommunity Partners Free Resources for Growth in 2022 On January 26th, 2022 CNote hosted a webinar alongside Inclusiv and CUNA Strategic Services where…petra
Community PartnersLow Income Designated Credit Union How Credit Unions Rose To The Challenges Presented By PPP Loan Issuance And Forgiveness When Jim Barnhart pushed pause on his 34-year-long career in banking, he never could have…Matt
