PFE Releases Latest Small Business Lending Matters Report
November 25, 2024
Boston, MA – Over one-third of businesses in the Commonwealth’s Gateway Cities are in low-income tracts but receive just 22.9% of the number of loans from financial institutions, according to […]
Read More NewsThe Village Bank Joins Partnership for Financial Equity
November 22, 2024
Our membership keeps growing. The Village Bank, with full-service offices located in the heart of seven unique villages in Newton and neighboring Wayland and Waltham, the Bank provides area residents […]
Read More NewsTransforming Legacy: The Massachusetts Insurance Industry’s Billion Dollar Commitment to Community Development
October 24, 2024
Boston, MA – October 24, 2024 – Partnership for Financial Equity unveils its latest report, It Wasn’t So Scary, on the twenty-five year life of the Massachusetts Insurance Company Community […]
Read More NewsBank and Community Leaders Celebrate “Elevating Equity” Innovators
October 17, 2024
October 17, 2024 – Partnership for Financial Equity is pleased to announce the winners of our inaugural Elevating Equity awards, designed to recognize outstanding bank-community partnerships reaching low- to moderate-income […]
Read More NewsLG Kim Driscoll and Deputy Comptroller Donna Murphy headline Financial Equity Summit 2024
October 11, 2024
If you attended our annual Financial Equity Summit this year, you heard Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll talk about centering equity and doing hard things. And Deputy Comptroller Donna Murphy challenging […]
Read More EventsOur 2024 Financial Equity Summit Is Fast Approaching!
September 18, 2024
On October 1st and 2nd, our third annual Financial Equity summit will take place, as a Zoom webinar on Tuesday the 1st and at Worcester’s Redemption Rock Brewery on Wednesday […]
Read More News“Dream big!” event brings together nation’s top experts on Special Purpose Credit Programs
September 18, 2024
A packed room of activists, bankers and policymakers were challenged to “dream big” last night as we took a deep dive into an long-underutilized tool to close racial wealth gaps. […]
Read More EventsPrograms with a Purpose forum on September 17 with The Racial Wealth Gap Partnership
September 02, 2024
Boston, MA – It has been called exciting, innovative, expansive. On July 1st, the Covenant Homeownership Program in Washington state opened for business offering assistance to low-income homebuyers whose families […]
Read More NewsWe are growing again
August 20, 2024
Our membership is growing again. Savers Bank, with more than 100 years of experience offering expansive comprehensive financial services to residents of Southbridge and adjacent communities in central Massachusetts, recently […]
Read More NewsAnnual Mortgage Lending Matters Report Released
July 24, 2024
Number of Mortgages to Black and Latine Households Remain at Proportional Shares Despite Rising Interest Rate Environment; Racial Gaps in Denial Rates Remain Large, Unyielding Boston, MA – While the […]
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