Congratulations to Delta Southern Bank in Ruleville and Drew! The community development financial institution was recently awarded an “outstanding” rating on its Community Reinvestment Act Audit by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Very few banks receive the “outstanding” raiting.

In the last of a three-part series in support of the half-cent economic development sales tax to be voted on tomorrow, Clark County Judge Ron Daniell joins Dr. Lewis Shepherd and Bill Wright in discussing reasons why this measure must be passed.

The Pine Bluff Commercial named Angela Austin, program manager of Southern Good Faith Fund’s Business Development Center, one of “Thirty Under 30” in their Sunday April 29, 2007 edition.

JustPhilanthropy.org provides a framework for achieving greater impact. It guides you to actions that make a difference in closing well-documented gaps in racial equity and removing barriers for achieving fair outcomes.

An artist’s rendering of the proposed interior of the Boys & Girls Culb’s flagship facility at the old H&M Lumber Co. building on Plaza St.

Boys & Girls Club Executive Director Jason Rolett, Director of Programs Royce Watson, and Board Member Doug Friedlander have unveiled the Club’s 5-year plan highlighting its major priorities for 2007. The plans include substantially increasing the number of youths served and the number of life enhancing programs offered.

HELENA-WEST HELENA – Voters narrowly approved a single, two-cent sales tax increase here just over a year after they rejected two separate proposals to raise the sales tax by 1 percentage point.

The increase – which will raise the total sales tax charged in the city to 10 percent – passed by a 125 vote margin Tuesday, with 1,555 votes for the tax and 1,430 casting their ballots against the tax.

William Thomas Jr. invests in his future every month by bringing his piggy bank savings to First Bank of the Delta. The Phillips County pre-schooler already is saving for college and talks excitedly about going to college, thanks to an innovative program that supercharges his family’s own savings.

Southern Good Faith Fund (SGFF) became the administrative agency for Project Deserve, a fund established by Entergy Arkansas to help low-income, elderly, or disabled Arkansas residents pay their electric bills.