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.

Our Impact: Supporting Our Team Four staff members stand outside Beneficial State Bank's Rose City branch in Portland, OR.

Our Impact

Supporting Our Team

At Beneficial State, we want to build an economy that works for everyone, starting with our team.

Sep 13, 2022

Client Spotlight: Plazita Schools, Inc Preschool - Investing in Community through Immersion Education Four people pose for a ribbon cutting at Plazita Schools

Four people pose for a ribbon cutting at Plazita Schools

Client Spotlight

Plazita Schools, Inc Preschool - Investing in Community through Immersion Education

Educating the children of our world with cultural and language immersion and a focus on preparing their students...

Sep 07, 2022

Our Impact: Inclusive, Fair, and Equitable Banking Services Beneficial State Bank staff member stands at the teller line at our MLK Branch in Portland, OR, smiling behind her mask.

Beneficial State Bank staff member stands at the teller line at our MLK Branch in Portland, OR, smiling behind her mask.

Our Impact

Inclusive, Fair, and Equitable Banking Services

We're dedicated to providing financing to support community development for low-income people and communities of...

Aug 30, 2022

Client Spotlight: AltaSea: Investing in the Blue Economy in Los Angeles A few people face away from the camera, looking at the ocean, at AltaSea's open house.

A few people face away from the camera, looking at the ocean, at AltaSea's open house.

Client Spotlight

AltaSea: Investing in the Blue Economy in Los Angeles

In the same way Silicon Valley invested in the information economy 50 years ago, AltaSea is investing in the Blue...

Aug 29, 2022

Our Impact: Banking that Nurtures the Environment Camera looks directly up into tall trees, with blue sky peaking through.

Our Impact

Banking that Nurtures the Environment

We are proud to finance clean energy systems and consciously avoid extractive and dirty energy sources like coal,...

Aug 16, 2022

Client Spotlight: A1DesignBuild, Cultivating Design Through Co-Operative Ownership A1 Design Build crew at a protest in support of BLM after George Floyd's murder

A1 Design Build crew at a protest in support of BLM after George Floyd's murder

Client Spotlight

A1DesignBuild, Cultivating Design Through Co-Operative Ownership

A1 DesignBuild is equally owned and democratically governed by the people who work there.

Aug 15, 2022

Client Spotlight: Insight Design & Print: Supporting Local Business and Nonprofits in the Central Valley Donpreyel Martin, owner of Insight Design & Print, installs graphics on a truck

Donpreyel Martin, owner of Insight Design & Print, installs graphics on a truck

Client Spotlight

Insight Design & Print: Supporting Local Business and Nonprofits in the Central Valley

Insight Design & Print produces high-quality work affordably, helping their clients convey clear and professional...

Aug 08, 2022

Client Spotlight: Q Center Builds Resilience for Queer and Trans Communities in Portland

TK stands in front the Q Center float. They are leaning backward excitedly and holding up a double peace sign. They are wearing a KN95, black pants, and the t-shirt described in the caption. The words are in black text. The float is a truck decorated with rainbow fringe, green balloon arches with a few pink, red, yellow, marble pink, white, blue, and marble blue yellow white balloons. The trailer on the back continues this decoration.

Client Spotlight

Q Center Builds Resilience for Queer and Trans Communities in Portland

Q Center provides safe spaces, community building, and empowerment for the LGBTQ2SIA+ communities and allies.

Aug 05, 2022

Client Spotlight: Equality California Advances Civil Rights and Social Justice for LGBTQ+ People Two people stand in front of a wall of flowers with signs that read "Queer to Stay" and "Queer Se Queda," smiling at the camera.

Two people stand in front of a wall of flowers with signs that read "Queer to Stay" and "Queer Se Queda," smiling at the camera.

Client Spotlight

Equality California Advances Civil Rights and Social Justice for LGBTQ+ People

Equality California works to elect pro-equality leaders, pass pro-equality legislation, and advance civil rights...

Aug 04, 2022

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