Feb 26, 2013 | Press Releases
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Jan. 31, 2013) — Over half of Arkansas residents currently risk financial disaster due to the absence of sufficient savings to fall back on in the event of a job loss, health crisis or other income-depleting emergency, according to a...
Feb 26, 2013 | Press Releases
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Feb. 22, 2013) – A case for why Arkansas should enact legislation to eliminate asset limits on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) is being presented by Southern Bancorp...
Feb 26, 2013 | News, Press Releases
HELENA-WEST HELENA, Arkansas (Feb. 26, 2013) – A sunny winter afternoon attracted an audience of about 200 to the dedication of Freedom Park in Helena-West Helena on Saturday, Feb. 23. The park honors the courage and determination of Freedom Seekers – fugitive slaves...
Feb 12, 2013 | News, Press Releases
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Feb. 12, 2013) – Daniel Koehler, president of Koehler Software, Inc., and former chief financial officer of Union National Bank of Little Rock, has joined the board of Southern Bancorp Inc., a family of a community development bank (the fifth...
Feb 4, 2013 | Press Releases
HELENA-WEST HELENA, Ark., Feb. 4, 2013 – The Helena Start-Up Challenge is a business plan competition, launching today, that will provide two entrepreneurs with the opportunity to make their business ideas into reality in Helena-West Helena. The first-place winner...
Feb 1, 2013 | Press Releases, Southern Bancorp Community Partners
Individual Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Offered Feb. 9 to Residents With Incomes up to $51,000 LITTLE ROCK, AR. (Feb. 1, 2013) — Income-eligible individuals and families in Helena-West Helena, Arkadelphia, El Dorado and Malvern in Arkansas and in Clarksdale,...
Jan 25, 2013 | News, Press Releases
Little Rock, AR, Jan. 25, 2013 –Lauren Isbell has joined the staff of Southern Bancorp Community Partners in Mississippi County as community development officer. She will be responsible for supporting and promoting community development initiatives in the areas of...
May 11, 2011 | News, Press Releases
In honor of the inaugural class of the Arkadelphia Promise Scholarship, Arkadelphia High School will be hosting Arkadelphia Promise Academic Signing Day on Wednesday, May 18 at 1:30. The scholarship program is funded by Southern Bancorp and the Ross Foundation, both...
May 11, 2011 | News, Press Releases
Over the past 25 years, the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation and Southern Bancorp have been working together to reduce poverty in Arkansas. A report explaining their progress and future plans for improving life in rural Arkansas was released on Wednesday.
Mar 28, 2011 | News, Press Releases
Southern Bancorp Bank earns recoginition from the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) as a top honoree in its 2011 National Community Bank Service Awards for Southern’s outstanding leadership in its “Planning for the Rural South”...
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