Southern Financial Partners

Delta Bridge Project announces $132,000 grant for Marvell affordable housing

July 3rd, 2008
Source: Southern Financial Partners

Grant and additional financing will fund $196,215 redevelopment of substandard housing, coordinated with city clean-up program funded in 2007 through Delta Bridge

Delta Dreams

June 5th, 2008

Southern Bancorp’s comprehensive community revitalization efforts in Helena-West Helena were featured on an award winning AETN documentary titled “Delta Dreams.” The documentary won a Silver Screen Award in the social issues category of the U.S. International Film and Video Festival.

B&GC returns home sporting national award

May 16th, 2008
Source: The Helena Daily World

While at the conference the Boys and Girls Club of Phillips County received the prestigious gold award for best Boys & Girls Club publication in the country. The local Boys and Girls Club’s 2006 Annual Report earned the highest honor such a publication can receive from the national BGCA organization, the Gold Marketing and Communication (MAC) Award. The award is presented to only a select few of the more than 4,300 Clubs nationwide.

Groundbreaking held for Clark County Child Care center

May 8th, 2008
Source: Southern CDC

Twenty-four hour, $690,000 center to address key need identified in Clark County Strategic Plan unveiled last year.

Place-based Initiative Benefits Phillips County in Delta

April 21st, 2008
Source: The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

…Southern’s new approach called for a county-level, bank-centered development strategy that would engage the diverse communities situated around its headquarters in Helena-West Helena, Ark. Southern selected Phillips County, Ark., a highly distressed community deep in the Arkansas Delta, with a poverty rate of 30 percent, one of the highest in the country.

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