Community Financial Resource Center

Mar 21 2013

Organization updates corporate identity and brand strategy

The Los Angeles Community Reinvestment Committee, dba Community Financial Resource Center (CFRC), has changed its name to RISE Financial Pathways. The acronym RISE stands for Reach, Invest, Succeed and Earn. The announcement was made during its 2013 Power Luncheon and awards ceremony and 20th year anniversary celebration held recently at the JW Marriott at L.A. Live in Los Angeles.

The change comes as a result of a name and visual identity grant received from the Taproot Foundation.

Mar 7 2013

Its power luncheon awards will be held Monday at noon

The Community Financial Resource Center (CFRC) has for two decades provided needed financial assistance for small business owners, and never before have their services been so timely.

Because of the economic downturn witnessed over the past five years, the CFRC has helped historically underserved entrepreneurs bridge the monetary gap between qualifying for a loan from a major lending institution—a feat increasingly difficult because of fluctuating investor confidence—and trying to finance a business on a “shoestring” budget.

Cynthia E. Griffin-  |   OW Managing Editor
Mar 3 2011

A builder and businesswoman

Forescee Hogan-Rowles is all about business and she has been since she studied fashion design at Brooks College and then created a company that manufactured and distributed better women’s junior sportswear in 26 states and four countries.

The California native operated FLIPS for six years and her designs appeared in Women’s Wear Daily and the California Apparel News.

Feb 17 2011

Bernard C. Parks, Jabari Jumaane, Forescee Hogan-Rowles

Bernard C. Parks

QUESTION: Judging by the number of people (solidly qualified community members) who were interested in running for this seat and from the recent 8th District People’s Convention, there are some of your constituents who have expressed strong reservations about how you are addressing the district’s needs. If you are re-elected, would you change your agenda for the district, why and why not, and what would that new agenda be?

Anthony Asadullah Samad, Ph.D.  |   OW Contributing Columnist
Jan 27 2011

Between The Lines

Last week, L.A. Weekly, Los Angeles’ major alternative newspaper (meaning alternative to the mainstream propaganda press, the Los Angeles Times), wrote an article handicapping the upcoming city council races. When it came to council District 8, the Weekly asked a very critical question, “Is Bernard Parks in Trouble?” (see http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2011/01/bernard_parks_hogan-rowles.php).

Across Black America

Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.
 

Alabama
Freeman A. Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will address the annual African American Business Council luncheon on June 28. Hrabowski, who is chairman of President Barack Obama’s Advisory Commission on Education Excellence for African Americans, has a national reputation for his work studying the performance of minority students in math and science. Hrabowski, named one of the 10 best college presidents in the country by Time magazine, was a child leader in the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham in the 1960s.
 

Arkansas
The Liberty Counsel filed a motion and a brief in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas seeking to intervene on behalf of a Concepts of Life crisis pregnancy center to defend against a suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Reproductive Rights. The groups seek to impose a permanent injunction before the Human Heartbeat Protection Act goes into effect July 18. Liberty Counsel also filed a brief opposing the ACLU’s request for an injunction. The “Heartbeat” bill states that when a woman seeks an abortion at or after the 12th week, doctors must test for a fetal heartbeat before an abortion is performed and inform the pregnant mother that the child in her womb has a heartbeat. If a heartbeat is detected, a woman cannot have an abortion, except in cases of rape, incest, and if a mother’s life is in danger. “As we promised when the legislation was introduced, Liberty Counsel will defend this law without reservation for the people of Arkansas, born and pre-born,” said Matt Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel. “No right is more foundational than the right to life. Without life, all other rights are irrelevant,” concluded Staver.