Better Banking Blog

About The Better Banking Blog

We are guided by a simple aspiration: benefit to all, harm to none. This means investing in and serving our local communities, contributing to environmental sustainability, offering inclusive, fair, and equitable more products, and nurturing our team. In the Better Banking Blog, we explore what a Beneficial Banking™ system looks like and how it can serve all of us.

Client Spotlight: The Dolores Huerta Foundation - Empowering Community Organizers in the Central Valley Four people stand on a stage in front of a Dolores Huerta Foundation banner. One person in a blue shirt stands in the foreground holding a microphone.

Four people stand on a stage in front of a Dolores Huerta Foundation banner. One person in a blue shirt stands in the foreground holding a microphone.

Client Spotlight

The Dolores Huerta Foundation - Empowering Community Organizers in the Central Valley

Building volunteer organizations to pursue social justice through grassroots civic engagement and community...

Oct 28, 2021

Client Spotlight: Housing Hope - Affordable Housing for Families Woman with brown hair and glasses hugging a kid on a swing. Both are smiling.

Client Spotlight

Housing Hope - Affordable Housing for Families

Housing Hope was founded to provide long-term housing solutions for low-income families and families experiencing...

Oct 25, 2021

Press Release: We Reached an Agreement with Communications Workers of America Employee Union in Historic Step for Financial Industry Randell Leach, CEO of Beneficial State Bank, and Louis Rocha, CWA representative, shake hands. Christina McAlvey, who represented union members, stands next to them.

Randell Leach, CEO of Beneficial State Bank, and Louis Rocha, CWA representative, shake hands. Christina McAlvey, who represented union members, stands next to them.

Press Release

We Reached an Agreement with Communications Workers of America Employee Union in Historic Step for Financial Industry

This agreement marks the first time bankers have established a union agreement in more than 40 years.

Sep 29, 2021

Welcoming Returning Board Member Tom Steyer Beneficial State Bank acorn with the words "Board Updates"

Welcoming Returning Board Member Tom Steyer

We are fortunate to have incredible Board members who share our vision to transform the banking industry from...

Sep 27, 2021

Client Spotlight: Options Recovery Services - Compassionate Addiction Treatment Options staff in front of their outpatient program

Client Spotlight

Options Recovery Services - Compassionate Addiction Treatment

Options is meeting the ever-changing needs of the marginalized and excluded. Their services go beyond addiction...

Sep 15, 2021

Client Spotlight: Inspiration Transportation - Getting People Where They Need to Go Three people in masks standing in front of the Senior Center in Kingsburg, California

Three people in masks standing in front of the Senior Center in Kingsburg, California

Client Spotlight

Inspiration Transportation - Getting People Where They Need to Go

Providing electric, micro-transit transportation to fill service gaps in areas where public transit is not...

Sep 15, 2021

We Can Build a Greener Future Through Banking Three children playing and learning in a garden

We Can Build a Greener Future Through Banking

Spending and banking decisions are like economic votes. How we cast them impacts the people and issues we value.

Sep 13, 2021

Client Spotlight: APANO - Centering Culture and Community Asian woman wearing a mask and a yellow jacket holds up a dark blue sweatshirt that says "Community Over Everything"

Asian woman wearing a mask and a yellow jacket holds up a dark blue sweatshirt that says "Community Over Everything"

Client Spotlight

APANO - Centering Culture and Community

APANO was founded in 1996 in Multnomah County by local API leaders who wanted to advocate for their growing...

Sep 08, 2021

Banking on Renewable Energy Four stacks of coins on dirt with small plants appearing to grow from the piles of coins

Banking on Renewable Energy

If you’re tired of funding a broken financial system, there’s something you can do about it.

Aug 25, 2021

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