All Episodes

#083: Building Financial Resilience for Military Families with GoVA Foundation

#082: CRA Tips: Less is More - Perfecting Your CRA File by Cutting the Clutter

#081: CRA Tips: 46th Anniversary of the CRA - How will you serve?

#080: CRA Tips: CRA Services Hours, Events, or Instances? What the What?!?

#079: CRA Tips: You are not alone...

#078: CRA Tips: Finish Strong: How to Prepare for Your Next CRA Exam

#077: CRA Tips: CDCs-Your Partners in Community Development

#076: Beyond Bricks and Mortar: Rethinking Community Development Strategy to Address Digital Inequity with Sarah Hope Marshall

#075: CRA Tip: The Pandemic May Be Over but SBA PPP Loans May Still Have an Impact During Your Next Exam

#074: CRA Tips: What "hooks" could a loan to a nonprofit fall under?

#073: CRA Tips: I'm an ISB, do I really need to look at my lending performance?

#072: CRA Tips: Naturally Occurring Affordable Housing and CD Loans

#071: CRA Tips: CRA Services-What exactly does the provision of financial services mean?

#070: CRA Services: If It’s Not Documented, It Didn’t Happen

#69: CRA Tips: Regulatory Change Part III: Operational and Financial Risks

#068: CRA Tips: Regulatory Change Part II: Reputational Risk

#67: CRA Tips: Regulatory Change Part I: Compliance Risk - The Only Constant is Change

#66: CRA Tips: Revisiting the Fundamentals: The Most Overlooked CD Hook

#65: CRA Tips: Revisiting the Fundamentals: A Community Development Loan Primer

#64: Bridging the Racial Wealth Divide with NCRC's Community Development Fund

#63: CDFI Partnership with Joshua Kummer

#62: What exactly is the BLS and how does it relate to the CRA?

#61: Community Development Loans Demystified

#60: How to Leverage Internal Expertise to Drive External Impact

#59: Economic Development as a Key to Community Development Services

#58: How to Increase your CRA Services By Partnering with Impactful Organizations

#57: I Bet You Are Underreporting Your Community Development Loans… Most Banks Are Too!

#56: Key Departments Critical to A Sound CRA Training Program

#55: From Elementary School Principal to Community Development Banker

#54: Inspiring Our Next Generation of Financially Literate Students

#53: It’s National Financial Capability Month…Where Do I Begin?

#52: Inspiring You to Greatness with Tawalla Simmons

#51: CRA Plan Checklist Inside!

#50: Haven’t Developed a CRA Plan Yet?

#49: Congrats! Take The Day Off!!

#48: Just 120 Business Hours Left...

#47: Just 10 Business Days Left...

#46: You Only Have Three Weeks Left...

#45: Three Ways to Supplement Your CRA Program Today

#44: How to Build the Culture of Compliance Within the Bank

#43: How to Add a Team Member to Your CRA Mighty Team of One

#42: How to Grow Your Team Without Adding Staff

#41: How to Do the Undoable Deal

#40: It Takes a Village...Do You Know Who You Can Trust?

#39: Community Development Finance: Yes, It’s Part of Your Job Too!

#38: Bank On: Bringing the Unbanked and Underbanked into the Financial Mainstream

#37: I Failed My CRA Data Integrity Exam – Now What?

#36: Best Practices to Ensure CRA Data Integrity

#35: The Secret to a Smooth CRA Data Integrity Exam!

#34: How to Ace Your Next CRA Data Integrity Exam!

#33: The Devil Is in the Details but Don’t Let It Get to Your Data, Too!

#32: Creative Items to Add to Your CRA Committee Meeting Agenda

#31: Three Documents You Must Have for Your CRA Program

#30: Repurpose Your CRA Self Assessment To Build Awareness and Buy-In

#29: 5 Key Resources To Inform Your CRA Self Assessment

#28: Choices. Make One and Let’s Get to Work!

#27: Look Back to Learn How to Look Forward

#26: Strategy Is a Commodity, Execution Is an Art

#25: Don’t Leave This for the Examiners to Decide

#24: CDFIs Are Changing The World. Will You Join Them?

#23: $2.2 Billion Is at Stake for Low-Income Taxpayers

#22: The Average American Has $90,460 In Consumer Debt

#21: 1 Super Simple Community Development Service You Might Be Under-Reporting

#20: Can the Countless Hours We Spent on the SBA PPP Count? You Might Be Surprised...

#19: 3 Community Development Services You’d Be Surprised Don’t Count

#18: Are You Unintentionally Under-Serving Low- and Moderate-Income (LMI) Communities?

#17: 3 Ways to Inspire More Community Development Loan Activities

#16: Internal Stakeholders: Who They Are And Why They Matter

#15: Community Development Loans.... How Much Is Enough?

#14: Community Development Loan Mining Strategies You Don’t Want to Miss

#13: 5 Must-Have Strategy and Implementation Documents to Guide Your CRA Program

#12: CRA Tips: A Series Created for CRA Practitioners

#11: The Catalytic Impact of a $40 Million Investment in the CDFI Sector

#10: EBA Fund Converting the promise of entrepreneurship into assets that build economic inclusion and equity

#09: findCRA and First Western Trust-Partnering for Impact

#08: Demystifying Community Reinvestment

#07: Jenny Flores of Wells Fargo and The Power of Diversity in Community Development

#06: Ken Thomas: CRA Modernization and COVID Recovery Efforts Collide

#05: Community Action and Partnerships Prevails as Banks Mobilize to Respond to COVID-19

#04: The Power of Impact Investing with Richard Woo

#03: Michael Delucchi with Elevate Chats About Regulatory Reform

#02: Mark Pinsky's CDFI Friendly Cities and More Community Development Inspiration

#01: Maurice Jones of LISC Highlights Opportunity Zones... a Freshly Minted Community Development Tool