Jim Beatty, Founder and Chairman Emeritus of the National Association of Black Golf Merchandisers (NABGM) announced that HOPE Credit Union with offices throughout the Southern United States will present a special program on Thursday Sept. 17 at 4PM Central Standard Time on the financial services available to small and underserved businesses serving or planning to serve the $102B Golf Industry. The presentation will be delivered by Felicia Lyles, Senior Vice President of Retail Operation and Jeremy Funchess, VP Regional Business Sales Manager. NABGM invites individuals and small businesses to attend and join in the discussion. The presentation will cover community development, economic development, HBCU support, business checking ,loans and other financial services available at Hope Credit Union
PLEASE CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THIS NO COST 1 HOUR PRESENTATION
You will be provided with the sign on credentials after registering.
ABOUT THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK GOLF MERCHANDISERS
The National Association of Black Golf Merchandisers (NABGM) is dedicated to promoting people of color involved in supplying, selling and supporting wholesale and retail sales in the $102B Golf Industry . This includes companies, individuals and associations that are or can be involved in the golf industry . Go to www.nabgm.org
ABOUT HOPE CREDIT UNION
HOPE (Hope Enterprise Corporation, Hope Credit Union and Hope Policy Institute) provides financial services; leverages resources; and engages in advocacy that strengthens the financial health of people in under-resourced communities in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee. Since 1994, these efforts have benefitted more than three million people across the Deep South and influenced billions in investments for persistent poverty communities nationwide.
Learn more at www.hopecu.org.
Hope Federal Credit Union (HOPE) was organized in 1995 by the members of Anderson United Methodist Church as Mississippi’s only church-sponsored credit union.
The credit union grew out of a desire to foster asset development, cooperation, and self-empowerment among low-income Jackson residents.
HOPE also sought to promote savings and community reinvestment in distressed communities, educate youth about economics and finance, and provide greater access to financial services for its members.
By 1999, HOPE was still extremely small and run by part-time volunteers. They were finding it increasingly difficult to manage the credit union’s operations. HOPE began to look for additional sponsors.
In February 2000, HOPE expanded its field of membership to include several groups that share a mission of community development. Among these were the Amos Network and its approximately 28 member churches, Fellowship of Hope Ministries with 15 member churches, the 100 Concerned Clergy with over 50 member churches, Voice of Calvary Ministries, and New Horizon Ministries. The expanded field of membership and the new sponsors helped HOPE grow tenfold in the space of two years.
In August 2002, after a long tradition of collaboration, Enterprise Corporation of the Delta (ECD) became HOPE’s primary sponsor. One of the nation’s leading community development financial institutions, ECD provides commercial, mortgage, and community facilities loans in economically distressed areas of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. This alliance has made both organizations stronger and enabled HOPE to significantly expand its scope of products and services and begin delivering its services to a much broader geography.
In 2005, HOPE was recognized as the fastest growing credit union in the nation for building its deposit. A 2007 survey ranked HOPE fifth in the nation for largest increase in membership growth during 2005 and 2006.
HOPE has continued to expand with additional mergers.
At the end of 2008, HOPE merged with College Station Federal Community Credit Union, an organization located in College Station, Arkansas, with a 50-year history.
American Savings Credit Union became part of HOPE on January 1, 2009. Based in Memphis, Tennessee, ASCU helped expand HOPE’s reach across the Mid South with 17,000 additional members and five new branches.
As part of its commitment to significantly increase the number of people and places it serves, HOPE has added branches and expanded the delivery of products and services via convenient and easily accessible electronic channels. HOPE has taken over branches in Terry and Utica, Mississippi, where the only banks in town were closing.
There are new locations in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and Greenville, Mississippi, where significant percentages of the populations were un- or underbanked. The credit union also established mini-branch/computer kiosk locations at a cooperative grocery store in Jackson, Mississippi, and a historic grocery store in New Orleans, Louisiana.
HOPE has deployed additional capabilities with its online, mobile banking, and online account/loan application services, allowing people who don’t have computer-based internet access and/or live farther away from branch locations to manage a wide variety of their banking needs more conveniently.
HOPE expanded its work to Alabama in October of 2017 when it merged with Tri-Rivers Federal Credit Union in Montgomery, Alabama.
Growth in Alabama continued with the addition of New Pilgrim Federal Credit Union in January of 2024. New Pilgrim was established in 1965 as an outreach ministry for members of New Pilgrim Baptist Church, which was founded in 1900. HOPE also extended its reach into Georgia following a 2025 merger with 1st Choice Credit Union in Atlanta.
Contact Us at https://www.hopecu.org/
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