Ponce Bank Stories and Data

Ponce Bank Stories

CDFI Program Financial Assistance Success Stories: Spring Bank
A CDFI program in NYC enabling low-income employees to access affordable credit, improve credit scores, and build savings
BOLD Charter School
Construction of a 60,000 square feet charter school facility featuring 27 classrooms, small breakout rooms, an art room, music room, science labs, cafeteria/gymnasium, and administrative spaces.
Pickleball Mania
AE financing helped Lesa Carter expand her community recreation business, offering events like family nights for 75+ attendees.
The Juice Collective
AE helped LaTeka Cooke-Davis start her juice bar when others wouldn’t; she’s expanding from Horseheads to downtown Elmira.

Ponce Bank Fact Sheet

Our local CDFI has been essential to supporting our organization, our members and so many people in our community who have struggled to access capital and financial services. They understand how to work with our communities and have assisted so many first time home-buyers and new businesses in getting on track and being financially stable. For many of our members this is where they’ve opened their first bank account and learned how to manage their finances.

-Jessica Maxwell, Workers Center of Central New york, Syracuse, NY

As a founding board member (1982) and original board member of this community development credit union, I urge you to continue funding CDFIs that have a vital role in our community with its current housing crisis.

-Michael Messina-Yauchzy, Syracuse Cooperative Federal CU, Syracuse, NY

CDFIs have assisted lower income people as they begin to work towards achieving the American Dream

-Jane Slabowski, member: Cooperative Federal credit Union, Syracuse, NY

Map of Ponce Bank CDFI Branches and Stories