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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,...Community Development Officer Joins Southern Bancorp Community Partners
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...Governor Mike Beebe speaks to students
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...'Partners in Progress' report highlights partnership between Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation and Southern Bancorp
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.Independent Community Bankers of America names Southern Bancorp a top nominee
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”...Southern Good Faith Fund welcomes three new members to Board of Directors
PINE BLUFF—Jerry Damerow and Kim Evans, both of Little Rock, and Ben Steinberg of Helena-West Helena have joined the Southern Good Faith Fund Board of Directors, Southern Good Faith Fund President Angela Duran announced today.
Herman Davenport of Little Rock, a Southern Good Faith board member since 2002, also has been elected to serve as board Chairman, Duran said.
Ben Steinberg Receives Non-Profit Executive of the Year Award
Ben Steinberg came to Little Rock four years ago as a volunteer in Wesley Clark’s presidential campaign and never left the state.
In July 2004, he made a home in Arkansas as the president of Southern Financial Partners in Helena. “Our goal is to revitalize distressed rural communities,” the 40-year-old California native said.
Southern Good Faith Fund proposes severance tax increase to finance trust fund for higher education
LITTLE ROCK— Southern Good Faith Fund’s Public Policy program today released a report that proposes creating an Arkansas Promise Trust Fund to help more Arkansans go to college, financed by an increase in the state’s historically low severance tax on natural gas.
$1.7 Million Affordable Housing Development in Helena-West Helena Has Opened
HELENA-WEST HELENA Southern Place Apartments, one of the largest multi-family housing developments in Phillips County in several decades, has opened.
Southern Community Development Corporation hosted the opening ceremony yesterday. Representatives from the Arkansas Development Finance Authority; the U.S. Department of Agriculture/Rural Development; Congressman Marion Berry’s office; and the offices of Senators Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor spoke at the event.