FNBO: Community Sponsorships

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NOTE: We review requests for support on a monthly basis to ensure timely decisions are provided to our community partners.

FNBO Impact

How we make an impact

FNBO is proud to be the great big small bank, helping our customers, employees, and our communities do more of what matters most. We’re big enough to make a difference yet small enough to know who we’re impacting. We believe our greatest impact to the long-term financial well-being of individuals and our communities can be made by delivering solutions that address our four community goals. We are further committed to intentionally and proactively creating pathways to financial well-being for historically underrepresented populations, regardless of but not limited to their age, race, color, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion, or military status.

Where we make an impact

The well-being of individuals and the strength of entire communities is dependent on many factors that have a synergistic effect on one another. That’s why we align our community loans and investments, as well as several key elements of our banking operations, in a manner that positively impacts these interconnected elements of a successful community:

• Affordable Housing & Neighborhood Stability:
  • We increase access to safe, affordable, and quality housing by partnering with community partners that specialize in new construction, site development, housing rehabilitation, homeownership education, and foreclosure prevention programs and services. We help revitalize distressed neighborhoods by investing in community partners who are working to bring neighborhoods back to life.
• Entrepreneurship & Small Business Development:
  • We help strengthen local economies through small business and entrepreneurial development and job creation by supporting training, technical assistance, education and microfinance.
• Education & Workforce Development:
  • We help strengthen individual core competencies by partnering with organizations that improve personal economic self-sufficiency, including adult basic education, and vocational and employability training.
• Environmental Sustainability:
  • We engage in proactive efforts to conserve energy, water, and waste so as to meet the needs of today without compromising future generations’ access to natural resources.
• Access to Arts & Culture: 
  • We create access to cultural experiences by supporting organizations that expose individuals to the arts, cultures, humanities and athletics.
• Community Cohesion:
  • We build community cohesion by supporting organizations, events, activities and initiatives that are unique and important to our local communities.
• Community Health & Wellbeing:
  • We support positive health outcomes by partnering with organizations who create access to health care services, support the quality of life for the ill and work to cure diseases.

Community Sponsorships

FNBO is proud to support nonprofit organizations and community events that are important to our communities. We do this by providing community sponsorships and capital or major donations that align with our seven community focus areas. We review requests for support on a monthly basis to ensure timely decisions are provided to our community partners.