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ShoreBank (SBK)
Company typeCommunity Development Bank
Founded1973
HeadquartersChicago, Illinois
Key people
Ron Grzywinski,
Mary Houghton, George Surgeon
ProductsFinancial Services, Microfinance
Total assets$2.3B USD (2010)
ParentShoreBank Corporation
Websitewww.sbk.com

ShoreBank is the oldest and largest community development bank, founded and headquartered in Chicago. It had $2.3 billion in assets as of March 31, 2010.[1]

ShoreBank has branches in Chicago’s South and West sides, Cleveland, and Detroit. Between 2000 and 2006, ShoreBank issued nearly $900 million in loans to citizens in Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland.[2] ShoreBank and its affiliated companies have projects in 30 countries. [citation needed]

ShoreBank incorporated environmental conservation into its mission during the 1990's, helping develop a triple-bottom line approach to banking—a system equally prioritizing profits, impact on people, and the impact of a project on the environment. [3]

ShoreBank accepts mission-based deposits from across the country through its Development Deposits program, launched in 1982, and its online savings account ShoreBank Direct, launched in 2007. [4]

Although mission-based, the bank's financial performance regularly matches or exceeds that of its peer banks.[5]

Origin

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In 1973 the South Shore Bank attempted to relocate from 71st Street and Jeffery Boulevard in the economically declining South Shore to the suburban Loop. At the time, one third of all apartment buildings in South Shore were tax-delinquent and in danger of abandonment by landlords. Angered by the bank's racist lending practices, community banker-activists Milton Davis, James Fletcher, Mary Houghton, and Ron Grzywinski purchased the bank after successfully petitioning the federal Comptroller of the Currency to stop the move. [6] Urban planner Stanley Hallett was a founding board member and was vice president of the bank's holding company its first five years.

In 2000 the South Shore Bank was officially renamed ShoreBank.

 
A ShoreBank branch on Mack Avenue in Detroit
 
A ShoreBank branch in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood

Structure

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ShoreBank Corporation is the holding company for ShoreBank. Its other subsidiaries provide equity investing, consulting, and environmental banking services:

ShoreBank established a number of affiliated nonprofits to provide related financing, technical assistance, and consulting services:

Recognition

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ShoreBank, its cofounders, and its affiliates have received numerous awards and honors, including from the magazines Fast Company, [7] Business Ethics [8], and U.S. News & World Report [9], University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business, the Independent Community Bankers of America [10], Mayor Richard M. Daley of Chicago [11], the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce [12], and Governor Ted Kulongoski of Oregon [13].

 
Barack Obama and others celebrate the naming of a street in Chicago after ShoreBank cofounder Milton Davis in 1998.

Former President and Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton is a prominent supporter of the bank. In 1985, ShoreBank worked closely with Clinton to set up the Southern Development Bancorporation, a community development bank serving rural Arkansans. [1] Clinton described ShoreBank as "the most important bank in America" [14] and credited ShoreBank’s success with inspiring a movement of community development financial institutions (CDFI’s). [15]

Under a grant from the Ford Foundation in the 1980's, ShoreBank worked with Muhammad Yunus to help him incorporate Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. Yunus and Grameen Bank were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. [16]

Further reading

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  • Carpenter, Dave (June 12, 2007). "'Bank with a heart' thrives; Expanding ShoreBank pumps loans into inner-city projects". Spokesman-Review. Associated Press.
  • Marcus, Craig: "Beyond the Boundaries of the Community Reinvestment Act and the Fair Lending Laws: Developing a Market-Based Framework for Generating Low- and Moderate-Income Lending", Columbia Law Review Vol. 96, No. 3 (Apr., 1996), pp. 710-758
  • Sachdev, Ameet: "Nobel winner's bank has Chicago interest", Chicago Tribune, 11/22/2006
  • "Uncommon Vision", Motto, premier issue, 2006

References

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  1. ^ http://www2.fdic.gov/idasp/confirmation.asp?inCert1=15640&AsOf=MostCurrent&Refer=ID
  2. ^ Rafter, Dan. "Uncommon Vision", "Motto". Retrieved on January 9, 2007
  3. ^ Iowa State University. "Investing for Triple Bottom Line Returns", 2006-6-1. Retrieved on January 8, 2007
  4. ^ http://www.suntimes.com/business/568052,CST-FIN-shore21.article
  5. ^ Marshall, Katherine. "ShoreBank gauges success by profit and community impact", Medill News Service, Northwestern University, May 17, 2005, retrieved September 19, 2007
  6. ^ Douthwaite, Richard. ""How a Bank can Transform a Neighborhood", "Short Circuit". Retrieved on January 8, 2007
  7. ^ http://www.fastcompany.com/social/2008/profiles/shorebank.html
  8. ^ First Sustainable. "Business Ethics Announces Six Social Investment Award Winners", "SRI News", 2000-4-2. Retrieved on January 8, 2007
  9. ^ http://www.usnews.com/features/news/special-reports/best-leaders.html?s_cid=related-links:TOP
  10. ^ Cook, Tim. "ICBA Announces National Community Bank Service Award Winners", "ICBA", 2005-4-29. Retrieved on January 8, 2007
  11. ^ Clutter, Charles. "Mayor Daley Awards Local Companies Employee Development Achievements" (pdf), "workforceChicago2.0", 2004-6-2. Retrieved on January 8, 2007
  12. ^ Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce. "Four Chicagoland Businesses Recognized for Workplace Innovations", "www.chicagolandchamber.org". Retrieved on January 8, 2007
  13. ^ http://www.dailyastorian.com/Main.asp?SectionID=2&ArticleID=56656
  14. ^ Douthwaite, Richard. "HOW A BANK CAN TRANSFORM A NEIGHBOURHOOD", "Short Circuit". Retrieved on January 8, 2007
  15. ^ Clinton, William. "REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT IN ANNOUNCEMENT OF COMMUNITY LENDING INITIATIVE" White House South Lawn, 1993-7-15. Retrieved on January 8, 2007
  16. ^ Glenn, Brandon. "ShoreBank leaders had hand in Nobel Prize", Crain's Chicago Business, 2006-10-16. Retrieved on January 8, 2007
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