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We believe in giving you the opportunity to make a difference in your financial world and beyond. Our products and services are delivered through an exceptional customer service experience. We just happen to be a credit union.
Welcome to Self-Help! Follow us on Linkedin for regular updates about our research and policy development work and our fair lending practices and products for homes, businesses and nonprofits, green initiatives and community real estate development. Also, check out our SERVICES TAB to learn more about our integrated approach to community development. Want to learn more? Self-Help is a family of nonprofit organizations whose mission is to create and protect ownership and economic opportunity for all. Since Self-Help`s founding in 1980, it has grown to include two credit unions, a loan fund, and a research and policy development group that supports those outside of the economic mainstream. Specifically, we: * Help borrowers build wealth by providing fair and responsible mortgages and small business loans in North Carolina, California and other parts of the nation. * Strengthen under-served communities by financing affordable housing, childcare centers, public charter schools, faith-based organizations, and community-focused commercial real estate projects. * Research and report on financial markets to support policies and industry practices that lower the cost of poverty and promote ownership.
Heartland Payment Systems provides debit, prepaid, and credit card processing, online payments, check processing, payroll services and a growing line of industry solutions for small to mid-sized merchants. Founded by Robert O. Carr in 1997, Heartland Payment Systems is headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey. There are also offices nationally in Texas, Colorado, Tennessee, Oregon, Indiana, New York, Arizona, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Ohio. Heartland Payment Systems processes transactions for more than 250,000 business locations in the United States.Heartland Payment Systems currently processes more than 11 million transactions a day and more than $120 billion in transactions a year. Heartland focuses its efforts on small to mid-sized businesses.
CircleUp is an online private company investment platform. They provide accredited investors free access to direct investments in high-growth consumer product and retail private companies that were previously difficult to identify and access. For retail and consumer product entrepreneurs, they offer an efficient way to access a network of sophisticated investors as well as value added partners. Typical investments on CircleUp are food, personal care, pet product, apparel or retail/restaurant companies with >$500K in revenue and are looking to raise $100,000 to $2.0 million in growth equity. A highly selective percentage of companies that apply are listed on their site. As the largest equity based crowdfunding site, CircleUp provides not only access to interesting consumer and retail private company investments, but also a wide ranging, sophisticated investor network. Their investor base includes retail and consumer product industry experts, venture capital, private equity and other financial professionals, business leaders, angel investors and others interested in expanding their investment portfolios with private company investments. Investors can review a curated list of private company investments, ask questions to the management team, request product samples and complete their private company investment online via CircleUp.
Darien Rowayton Bank was founded by leading local business people to provide our community with an exceptional combination of competitive banking services and thoughtful personal service. We carefully lend your deposits to support the growth of local businesses and to meet the needs of community members for financing worthy purposes from housing to education. Our focus on communities in Connecticut means we have avoided the types of loans and investments that underlie the current financial industry crisis and can continue to meet the credit needs of our community. We are committed to long-term relationships and offer the conveniences and financial services you expect from a larger bank, with the incredible rates, safety, and personal attention you won’t find anywhere but home.