Under the Community Reinvestment Act banks are required to demonstrate they are meeting the credit needs of the communities they serve. Typically, banks are examined under one of three different exam ...

On December 17, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) proposed new guidance that would significantly streamline how community banks elect to be evaluated under the Community Reinvestment ...

Strategic planning can feel like an onerous undertaking, but a focused approach keeps nonprofit leaders from feeling overwhelmed by the sheer number of decisions that surface during the process.

Strategic planning is a commonly misunderstood concept in the business world. Entrepreneurs and business owners may think they have a strategic plan in place simply because they have goals and a ...

Nonprofit leaders, midlevel managers, and frontline staff sometimes view strategic planning as one more task heaped onto near-impossible workloads. After all, developing a strategic plan — by ...