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Park Community Credit Union gets $122 million to lend to underserved

Park Community was established in 1965 to serve the employees of General Electric’s Appliance Park in Louisville, Kentucky. It now serves communities across Kentucky and Indiana.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Vice President Kamala Harris and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen have announced Park Community Credit Union’s selection for $122.5 million from the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Emergency Capital Investment Program (ECIP). The program is designed to support lending to small and minority-owned businesses and low- and moderate-income consumers especially in underserved communities that have been disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The ECIP will provide a total of $8.7 billion to designated Community Development Financial Institutions (CFDIs), with a mission to deliver fair and affordable lending to increase responsible investments in economically distressed communities. As the only financial institution in Kentucky with a CDFI designation, and the largest CDFI in the state, Park Community is in a unique position to deploy funds into the underserved areas of Kentucky that need it most.

“The real winners here are the historically excluded communities,” said Park Community Credit Union President and CEO Jim Spradlin. “This investment will greatly expand our work to support their growth and development across the Commonwealth of Kentucky and beyond. We’re honored to be selected.”

The ECIP funds represent a major, long-term investment in mission-driven financial institutions like Park Community who are dedicated to supporting individuals and businesses that face barriers to financial prosperity and inclusion.

Park Community was established in 1965 to serve the employees of General Electric’s Appliance Park in Louisville. It now Kentucky’s largest Community Development Financial Institution and serves communities across Kentucky and Indiana.

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