Better Banking Blog

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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: How an SBA loan helped Christopher Benson expand his guitar amp business, Benson Amps Christopher Benson holds guitar while adjusting amplifier equipment in a studio

Christopher Benson holds guitar while adjusting amplifier equipment in a studio

Client Spotlight

How an SBA loan helped Christopher Benson expand his guitar amp business, Benson Amps

Benson Amps is a Portland-based guitar amplifier manufacturer that makes high-quality guitar amps and sells them...

Apr 04, 2024

Why Your Company Should Become a Certified B Corp Six Beneficial State Bank team members stand on Grouse Mountain in Vancouver, BC at the 2024 Champions Retreat, a conference for B Corps held every two years.

Six Beneficial State Bank team members stand on Grouse Mountain in Vancouver, BC at the 2024 Champions Retreat, a conference for B Corps held every two years.

Why Your Company Should Become a Certified B Corp

B Corp certification is one way a company can demonstrate its values and commitment to being a force for good.

Mar 26, 2024

Client Spotlight: Place to B: A Hub for Impact-led Work Place to B logo

Client Spotlight

Place to B: A Hub for Impact-led Work

Place to B is a community hub and incubator space for values-aligned businesses and nonprofits in the Portland...

Mar 19, 2024

Partner Spotlight: CROP Organization – Investing in People Over Punishment CROP Oakland Grand Opening in March 2023. A line of CROP staff and supporters including Kat Taylor pose for a photo on CROP's campus

CROP Oakland Grand Opening in March 2023. A line of CROP staff and supporters including Kat Taylor pose for a photo on CROP's campus

Partner Spotlight

CROP Organization – Investing in People Over Punishment

CROP Organization offers a career development program to formerly incarcerated folks to set them up for success...

Mar 18, 2024

Client Spotlight: Exilior Coffee: A B Corp Improving Livelihoods for Kenyan Coffee Farmers

Francis Kungu holds a bag of Exilior Coffee

Client Spotlight

Exilior Coffee: A B Corp Improving Livelihoods for Kenyan Coffee Farmers

Kenyan coffee farmers have faced challenges for decades, but Exilior Coffee is working to restore small Kenyan...

Mar 12, 2024

Partner Spotlight: Doing Good Works – Changing Foster Youth Outcomes Through Business Four Doing Good Works team members pose at a company party with photobooth accessories with affirming statements.

Four Doing Good Works team members pose at a company party with photobooth accessories with affirming statements.

Partner Spotlight

Doing Good Works – Changing Foster Youth Outcomes Through Business

DGW Branded and Foster Greatness are proving that leading with heart yields higher performance.

Feb 29, 2024

Our Impact: A Lending Practice Designed to Fight Housing Insecurity Cat Delorey from Housing Hope

Our Impact

A Lending Practice Designed to Fight Housing Insecurity

Safe, affordable housing is a basic human right. Here’s how we moved the needle in 2022.

Feb 21, 2024

Client Spotlight: Aprende con Amigos – How a Spanish immersion preschool expanded with the help of an SBA loan Two preschool children working on a craft in a classroom

Two preschool children working on a craft in a classroom

Client Spotlight

Aprende con Amigos – How a Spanish immersion preschool expanded with the help of an SBA loan

Stacey Dunbar is the founder and owner of Aprende con Amigos, a research-based Spanish immersion preschool in...

Feb 15, 2024

Press Release: Beneficial State Bank Recognized as a Top Impact Company in the 2024 Real Leaders Impact Awards Beneficial State Bank CEO Randell Leach

Press Release

Beneficial State Bank Recognized as a Top Impact Company in the 2024 Real Leaders Impact Awards

Beneficial State Bank was ranked #54 overall in Real Leaders’ annual global ranking of businesses making a...

Jan 29, 2024

Choose a Bank that Invests in Tomorrow

Beneficial State Bank serves the triple-bottom-line of people, planet, and prosperity for all. That means prioritizing social justice and environmental sustainability. Our clients want to see their money put to good use – funding causes that defend our planet and build resiliency in our communities. Change your bank and help change the world.

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