Mar 15, 2013 | Press Releases
LITTLE ROCK, AR. (March 15, 2013) – Tamika Edwards, director of public policy for Southern Bancorp Community Partners, has been appointed to a three-year term on the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis’ Community Development Advisory Council. Southern Bancorp Community...
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...
Jan 9, 2013 | Darrin Williams, News
Effective Feb. 1, 2013, Darrin L. Williams, a lawyer and current member of the Arkansas General Assembly, will be chief executive officer of Southern Bancorp, Inc., a family of a community development bank (the fifth largest in the United States) and a nonprofit...
Dec 11, 2012 | News, Southern Bancorp Community Partners
Clarksdale has a new playground. Saturday, over 200 men, women and children worked through the occasional drizzle to move mulch, mix cement and build a playground from scratch at Martin Luther King Park. Two years after the initial announcement by the Delta Bridge...
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