Jan 25, 2013 | News, Press Releases
Little Rock, AR, Jan. 25, 2013 –Lauren Isbell has joined the staff of Southern Bancorp Community Partners in Mississippi County as community development officer. She will be responsible for supporting and promoting community development initiatives in the areas of...
Jan 9, 2013 | Darrin Williams, News
Effective Feb. 1, 2013, Darrin L. Williams, a lawyer and current member of the Arkansas General Assembly, will be chief executive officer of Southern Bancorp, Inc., a family of a community development bank (the fifth largest in the United States) and a nonprofit...
Dec 11, 2012 | News, Southern Bancorp Community Partners
Clarksdale has a new playground. Saturday, over 200 men, women and children worked through the occasional drizzle to move mulch, mix cement and build a playground from scratch at Martin Luther King Park. Two years after the initial announcement by the Delta Bridge...
Dec 10, 2012 | News, Southern Bancorp Community Partners
On March 1, 1997, a tornado ripped through Arkadelphia, killing six people, injuring more than 100 others and destroying the downtown. As Arkadelphia’s residents restored their lives, they vowed to rebuild. “Although the struggle to bring the downtown area back from...
Nov 29, 2012 | News, Southern Bancorp Community Partners
Civil War Helena is up and moving as Cathy Cunningham confirmed Tuesday night at the city council session. Cunningham explained that there are currently two projects in the works including Battery C at the entrance of Yorkshire and Freedom Park, which is slated to be...