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Founded in 1988, Community Reinvestment Fund, USA (CRF) is a national non-profit organization with a mission improve lives and strengthen communities through innovative financial solutions. A leading Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), CRF develops products and services aimed at increasing the flow of capital to historically underinvested communities across the country. CRF has injected more than $3 billion to help stimulate job creation and economic development, provide affordable housing, and support community facilities.
Sabal Financial Group, L.P. is an international diversified financial services firm specializing in real estate, banking and lending, having acquired nearly $7.4 billion in assets on behalf of its clients and investors. We began with a simple vision to utilize innovative technologies and foster a world-class team that would grow into a leading financial services firm. Our employees and their minds are the backbone to the success of our business. Since its inception in 2009, the team has built a diversified financial services firm to serve businesses in an ideal and efficient manner. With a focus on innovation and superior service, while also fostering partnerships across its world class platform, Sabal Financial has become a leading player in the real estate and finance sectors. Sabal Financial holds a Primary Servicer rating of CS3, Construction Loan Servicer rating of CC3, and Special Servicer rating of CS2 from Morningstar. The firm also holds a Special Servicer rating of CSS3 from Fitch.
Every organization has a story. Many are typical accounts of significant financial transactions, notable business acquisitions, facility openings, ribbon-cuttings and the like, generously sprinkled with the obligatory nods to navy-jacketed men and women. But good organizations, actually great organizations, tell stories that capture the audience’s imagination from the very start—stories that make you dream, that stand a paradigm on its head or that expose you to ways of thinking you hadn’t considered before. For many of these organizations, their account spans the decades and even the centuries; for others, their tale has just begun. The genesis for First West’s story occurred several years ago around a kitchen table in Abbotsford when two golfing buddies, who were also CEOs of well-established credit unions, decided there had to be better ways for credit unions to grow and expand in their competitive industry than through traditional mergers. Such traditional mergers were usually an immediate plus for the financial statements but carried a tremendous cost to local brand awareness, local decision-making and local market focus. Not long after, with only an idea and belief that things could be different and better, Valley First and Envision Financial began a journey together to draft the blueprint of a partnership that had the potential to achieve what was to that point only imagined. So the partnership began, with trying, learning, rethinking, recalibrating and on occasion, failing—but always believing. And the outcome was none other than we now call First West. Chapter by chapter, scene by scene, the First West story continues to unfold, with a third partner now on the journey. Enderby & District Financial and its members recongnized the times and led with courage, weaving their hopes into the First West vision of what can be. More than just a credit union and a partnership, First West is a concept and an idea—like the start of an adventure. It’s an experience certain to awaken the mind, heart and spirit to another way of doing financial services in Canada. And so First West’s story, our story, has in many ways just begun.
Crossett Paper Mills Employee Federal Credit Union is a Crossett, AR-based company in the Financial Services sector.
Rainier Investment Management is a Seattle, WA-based company in the Financial Services sector.