Our Partners...

Federal Reserve Bank of New York
www.newyorkfed.org
The New York Fed's supervisory activities are designed to ensure a safe and sound banking system. The New York Fed conducts onsite and offsite examinations of banks in New York, New Jersey, and Fairfield County in Connecticut. It also examines U.S. bank holding companies, state-chartered banks and the U.S. operations of foreign banks.

Like the other Federal Reserve banks, the New York Fed is responsible for enforcing laws and establishing rules to protect banking customers in its region. Finally, the Fed ensures that banks in each district observe community reinvestment laws and try to meet the credit needs of their communities.

 

Bank of America
www.bankofamerica.com
Bank of America is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk-management products and services. The company provides unmatched convenience in the United States, serving more than 54 million consumer and small business relationships with more than 5,700 retail banking offices, more than 16,700 ATMs and award-winning online banking with more than 19 million active users. Bank of America is the No. 1 overall Small Business Administration (SBA) lender in the United States and the No. 1 SBA lender to minority-owned small businesses.

 

Chase Bank
www.chase.com
Chase is the consumer and commercial banking division of JPMorgan Chase. Our mission is to strengthen communities in which JPMorgan Chase & Co. does business by: Expanding access to capital, Leadership by example, Leveraging the many resources of JPMorgan Chase. We can help you find a home mortgage or refinance solution that makes sense, and back it with the service you expect.

 

Money Management International
www.moneymanagement.org
MMI offers help with budgeting, money management and credit issues 365 days a year. Our counselors take the time to thoroughly understand your situation and provide you with specific advice. We will work with you to develop a personal financial assessment by analyzing your income, expenses, assets and liabilities. You can choose to work directly with a counselor in person (within select markets), by telephone or online. As a team, you and your counselor will work together to create a livable spending plan and establish an action plan for becoming debt free and achieving your financial goals.

New Alliance Bank
www.newalliancebank.com
For 171 years, the New Alliance Bank have been an involved, generous, and active member of the communities where we do business. This commitment continues today and is core to who we are and how we do business. The NewAlliance Foundation provides grants to organizations in communities served by the Bank that support programs in the arts, community development, health and human services, and youth and education.
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People's United Bank
www.peoples.com
People's United Bank is the largest regional banking organization headquartered in New England. With the acquisition of the Chittenden group of banks in January 2008, it has grown to more than $20 billion in assets, and approximately 300 branches in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont and in Westchester County, New York. Convenient, seven-day banking is offered at approximately 80 of our branches in Connecticut and Maine Super Stop & Shop supermarket locations.



Webster Bank
www.websteronline.com
Webster Bank's mission is to help individuals, families, and businesses achieve their financial goals. Webster’s humble beginnings started with the basic idea of neighbors helping neighbors. And today, even though Webster offers much more than loans to homebuyers, the basic notion of helping one another has remained unchanged. The business of banking has stayed within the family at Webster, and our focus still centers around the families and businesses of the communities we serve. Here at Webster, we remain steady, unwavering, and dedicated to helping our customers find a way.







St. Luke's LifeWorks
www.learnaliving.org
We help individuals and families who are affected by homelessness, HIV/AIDS, and mental illness, learn to make their lives work better.We provide programs for life-long learning, emergency and supportive housing and other needed direct aid. We aspire to be a model caring community where people learn a living.





Yerwood Center
www.yerwoodcenter.com
The Yerwood Center is a community resource center providing educational and personal development opportunities to Stamford’s diverse community. The Yerwood Center was founded in 1943 as the Stamford Negro Community Center by Dr. Joyce Yerwood, the first African American female Doctor in the State of Connecticut. In 1950 it became the West Main Street Community Center, and in 1975 the name was changed to the Yerwood Center, in honor of Dr. Joyce Yerwood’s many years of unwavering support and dedication to the community. In 2008 the Yerwood Center celebrates 65 years of service to Stamford and the West Side community. The Center continues to focus primarily on the low-income population residing on Stamford’s West Side where the ethnic representation is 55% Black, 36% Hispanic, 7% White and 2% other.



Career Resources
http://www.careerresources.org
Career Resources is a well-established non-profit workforce development organization that has achieved national recognition for preparing youth and adults in Southwestern Connecticut to gain employment and progress in their careers. Career Resources provides them with skills, resources, and support necessary for personal development, economic self-sufficiency, and career advancement, and also provides planning and staffing resources to the business community in support of workforce development.


Southwestern CT Works
http://www.ctworkssw.org
The CTWorks Career Centers of Southwestern Connecticut provide services to unemployed and underemployed individuals seeking jobs and job search assistance at no cost. Job seekers are afforded convenient access to the employment, education, training and information they need at a single location.EVERYONE and ANYONE is welcome and encouraged to visit CTWorks Career Centers and use the reference materials such as newspapers, journals and job posting board. Posted positions include all levels and salary ranges from entry-level to upper-level management.


The Workplace Inc.
http://www.workplace.org
The mission of The WorkPlace, Inc. is to develop a well educated, well trained, and self-sufficient workforce that can compete in the changing global marketplace. Essential to our mission is the creation of a seamless, coordinated system of education, training and employment that is customer centered and easily accessible; meets the needs both of employers for employable people and of persons who face barriers to the kind of employment that provides economic self-sufficiency; has a high level of commitment and collaboration from business, education, government and community agencies including economic development, employment and training, and human services; and has defined goals and performance standards.



The Athletes Foot, Stamford CT
2359 Summer Street, 203-323-3101
http://www.theathletesfoot.com
The Athlete's Foot® is the world's first franchisor of athletic footwear and is recognized today as the world leader in athletic footwear franchising. Robert and David Lando opened the first The Athlete's Foot® store in 1971 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was the first athletic footwear specialty store of its kind in the United States. Soon thereafter, The Athlete's Foot® began franchising domestically, with the first franchise store opening in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in 1972. The first international franchise store opened in 1978 in Adelaide, Australia, the beginning of The Athlete's Foot® expansion into over 40 countries.




Hope Street Pharmacy
221 Hope Street Stamford, CT (203-348-5366)



The UPS Store, Norwalk CT
http://www.theupsstorelocal.com/1282/
The Mail Boxes Etc. concept was introduced in 1980 as a convenient alternative to the post office. Throughout its evolution, it has continued to define and lead the business services category it created. In 2001, UPS acquired Mail Boxes Etc., Inc. In 2003, the two companies introduced The UPS Store brand. On April 7, 2003, approximately 3,000 Mail Boxes Etc. locations in the United States (at the time, nearly 90% of the domestic U.S. network) re-branded as The UPS Store and began offering lower (around 20% on average) UPS-direct shipping rates. The stores remain locally owned and operated, and continue to offer a variety of shipping, postal and business services, with convenient locations and world-class service.


Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 49
Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 49 (MALS-49) is a reserve aviation logistics support unit of the United States Marine Corps. They are currently based at Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh, New York and fall under the command of Marine Aircraft Group 49 (MAG-49) and the 4th Marine Aircraft Wing (4th MAW). The squadron 49 is the only MALS in the 4th MAW with an active duty core of maintenance and aviation supply personnel. MALS-49 is currently structured with six separate and distinct divisions of maintenance, supporting three separate and distinct sites, along with five flying squadrons.


Air National Guard
http://www.ang.af.mil
The Air National Guard's federal mission is to maintain well-trained, well-equipped units available for prompt mobilization during war and provide assistance during national emergencies (such as natural disasters or civil disturbances). During peacetime, the combat-ready units and support units are assigned to most Air Force major commands to carry out missions compatible with training, mobilization readiness, humanitarian and contingency operations such as Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. Air National Guard units may be activated in a number of ways as prescribed by public law. Most of the laws may be found in Title 10 of the U.S. Code. The Air National Guard provides almost half of the Air Force's tactical airlift support, combat communications functions, aeromedical evacuations and aerial refueling. In addition, the Air National Guard has total responsibility for air defense of the entire United States.