Community Financial Institutions - America's Commerce Corps

Become a Community Financial Institution Partner

As a community financial institution, we understand that your primary business is making local loans, funded with local deposits. By making the conscious decision to channel your loans to the neighborhoods where your depositors live and work, you help strengthen your community.

You work hard to understand your customers as people, not as dollars. Your focus is on developing relationships, not conducting transactions. You make credit decisions based on personal knowledge, not predictive models.

Knowing that many smaller businesses can’t satisfy the structured underwriting of larger banks, you provide a lifeline to your neighbors in search of their version of the American dream.

When you become a Financial Institution Partner, we upload the branch and ATM locations you provide to us into ComCon™, America’s only one-stop-shop for all things local. You control details about your branches and ATMs, not a search engine or crowd-sourced review platform that may show outdated information or snarky reviews by trolls.

Not only that, but we also create a custom version of ComCon™ that you can display on your website, showing all your branch and ATM locations with your logo.

Check it out by visiting www.comcon.mobi and click on Community Banks/CU in the hamburger menu.

Through your private and secure portal, you update your data and publish any events you are holding or sponsoring once, and the information is automatically displayed in ComCon™ and on your website. Stop depending on slow search engine updates to reflect changes in your operations!

Bonus Tools

Giving Story^®

As an Association Member Partner, we’ll create a custom Giving Story^® for your organization that shares how you are affecting positive change in your community. Whether the focus is on dollars given, volunteer hours donated, or unique community involvement projects, Giving Stories^® are beautiful narratives that use impactful graphics and authentic storytelling to shine a light on the good work you are doing.

We know you don’t like to toot your own horn, but there is no disputing that consumers today are increasingly making purchasing decisions based on their own personal values and ethics. A phenomenon known as identity-based commerce.

But these consumers are not easily fooled by pandering. They expect to see results. Don’t think of it boasting, think of it as educating your community about what they risk losing if they don’t support local businesses. Can they get things cheaper at a big box store? Probably. But we need to let them know what they give up in quality of life to save a few bucks.

Check out our Giving Stories® at www.GivingStories.org

Sprocket^®

The world is changing at an exponential pace. And that means that what is working today will likely not work tomorrow. This is true whether your business is 100 years old or 100 days old.

Businesses that are designed and structured with the expectation of change will outcompete those that are not. Sprocket shows you how to optimize and realign your business with this goal in mind.

This business optimization tool was developed by an SBA Small Business Person of the Year to help leaders achieve transformational and lasting impact in their organizations by making small, focused changes in operations. You won’t find trendy business theory or one-size-fits-all solutions.

Sprocket gets down to brass tacks so you can quickly increase your productivity and resiliency by getting out of neutral and into gear.

Organizational leaders complete an anonymous online assessment using our secure and private portal. We compile the aggregate results and provide you with your Sprocket Adaptive Response Score indicating the nature and degree of imbalance in your business.

Using this “big” picture”, and our recommendations about how to rebalance your organization, you can finally solve those chronic problems that never seem to go away no matter how many meetings you have about them.