August 11th, 2008
Annie E. Casey Foundation
In 2007, SGFF received the nationally prestigious FAMILIES COUNT award and grant from the Annie E. Casey Foundation in honor of our work building better futures for disadvantaged children and families. As part of our award, the foundation generously provided a crew to film and interview our staff and participants, which we are proud to share with you.
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Archive: August 2008 | Section: Jefferson County, Phillips County, Southern Bancorp, Southern Good Faith Fund, Video
July 21st, 2008
Source: KATV Channel 7
With summer temperatures reaching triple digits, many Arkansans have trouble paying their electric bills. Entergy Arkansas’ The Power to Care program, administered by Southern Good Faith Fund, provides financial assistance to eligible Entergy customers who are elderly or disabled and meet income guidelines.
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Archive: July 2008 | Section: Media, Project Deserve, Southern Bancorp, Southern Good Faith Fund, Video
March 18th, 2008
Source: KARK Channel 4 News
Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel on March 18, 2008, held a news conference to announce that he was ordering payday lenders in Arkansas to cease making loans and to forgive existing loan debt.
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Archive: March 2008 | Section: Media, Southern Good Faith Fund, Video
March 11th, 2008
Source: KARK Channel 4 News
Southern Good Faith Fund and its parent company, Southern Bancorp Inc., provide free tax preparation to hundreds of Arkansans each year as part of the Internal Revenue Service’s Volunteer Income Tax Preparation (VITA) program. Southern Good Faith Fund President Angela Duran discussed how the VITA program increases participants’ assets in an interview following a March 11, 2008, news conference highlighting Southern’s VITA services…
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Archive: March 2008 | Section: Media, Southern Good Faith Fund, Video
January 29th, 2008
Source: KTHV Channel 11
The debate over increasing the severance tax on natural gas is building momentum in Arkansas.
Right now, gas companies pay Arkansas three-tenths of a cent for every 1,000 cubic feet taken from the Fayetteville shale play. The rate is one of the lowest in the country.
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Archive: January 2008 | Section: Media, Public Policy, Southern Bancorp, Southern Good Faith Fund, Video
January 28th, 2008
Governor Mike Beebe, accompanied by students from Helena-West Helena; Southern Good Faith Fund Public Policy Program Director Mike Leach and officials from several state agencies, officially kicked off the state’s new Aspiring Scholars Matching Grant Program with a news conference at Pulaski Heights Elementary School in Little Rock on January 18, 2008.
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Archive: January 2008 | Section: Aspiring Scholars, Media, Southern Good Faith Fund, Video
November 26th, 2007
By Jessica Dean / KATV Channel 7 News
What happens when parents, students and teachers all commit to a student’s success? If the KIPP Delta College Preparatory School in Helena-West Helena is any indication, that combination can be powerful and productive.
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Archive: November 2007 | Section: Delta Bridge Project, KIPP School, Media, Phillips County, Southern Bancorp, Video
August 22nd, 2007
By Jason Pederson // KATV Channel 7
After a mild start to summer, the high heat has arrived in August with a vengeance. And high temperatures in August mean high electricity bills in September.
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Archive: August 2007 | Section: Media, Public Policy, Southern Bancorp, Southern Good Faith Fund, Video
August 22nd, 2007
By Tyler Baldwin // FOX 16
North Little Rock may ban any new check cashing and pay day loan companies from coming into the city. It’s the latest in a series of bans that cover everything from pit bulls to novelty lighters. Is North Little Rock ban happy or just a progressive city taking action when needed?
Here is a list of some of things North Little Rock has banned recently:
-It was one of the
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Archive: August 2007 | Section: Media, Public Policy, Southern Bancorp, Southern Good Faith Fund, Video
April 10th, 2007
Source: KARK Channel 4
Project Deserve, a fund established by Entergy Arkansas to help elderly and disabled customers pay their electric bills in times of financial crisis, has begun its 25th year in 2007 with a new fund administrator, Southern Good Faith Fund.
Source: KARK Channel 4
In 2006, Entergy Arkansas customers and employees contributed $317,413 for Project Deserve. Today Entergy announced that it has matched $135,512, raising the total 2006 contribution to $452,925. Checks
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Archive: April 2007 | Section: Media, Southern Bancorp, Southern Good Faith Fund, Video
