Bank 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 […]
Read More NewsPFE Welcomes Northern Bank and First Citizens Bank as Members
March 22, 2024
Our membership is growing. Two banks, Northern Bank and First Citizens Bank, have joined Partnership for Financial Equity as new members in recent weeks. Welcome! Founded in 1960, Northern Bank […]
Read More NewsBusinesses in Low Income Areas and Neighborhoods of Color Across Massachusetts Receive Fewer Loans Than Peers in 2021; Local Lenders Lead in Year Two of PPP
February 05, 2024
Boston, MA – Businesses in low-income tracts across the Commonwealth receive less than their respective percentage of loans, both in terms of the number of loans and the total dollar […]
Read More NewsNew Paper on Special Purpose Credit Programs as Tool for Greater Equity
December 20, 2023
Boston, MA – A little-used tool that has been available since 1976 is the focus of a new report released today by the nonprofit Partnership for Financial Equity with support […]
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