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Rich Liekweg, BJC HealthCare, Dr. Jason Purnell, BJC HealthCare, and Orv Kimbrough, Midwest BankCentre

Meet Pastors Ken and Beverly Jenkins of the Refuge & Restoration church and nonprofit in Dellwood, a historically disinvested city in North St. Louis County. They partnered with Midwest BankCentre to open the R&R Marketplace, a community center designed to empower residents and promote economic mobility. Impact Banking with Midwest BankCentre makes transformative developments like this possible.

The realization that our organization could multiply the benefits of our tax revenues from the community through Impact Banking is profound. While we ensure we use our revenues for building, promoting and sustaining greenways for citizens in the St. Louis region, we now know that distributing resources through Impact Banking, changes lives in the community. This is an essential piece of our commitment to investing equitably in the region.
Susan Trautman
CEO, Great Rivers Greenway
Our leadership team asked how we can invest in ways that benefit the community but still meet our business needs," said Rich Liekweg, BJC President and CEO. "We chose to work with two financial institutions with a long track record of keeping deposits in the St. Louis region and strategically reinvesting them where needed.
Richard Liekweg
CEO, BJC HealthCare

by improving the financial health
of individual and business clients
and extending banking services
to the financially excluded.

by moving beyond individual transactions to proactively finance and strengthen entire communities.

by placing capital in
high-impact investments.

Wendy Sullivan, Easterseals Midwest, and Kurt Anderson, Midwest BankCenter

In early 2021, Midwest BankCentre made a commitment to lend an incremental $200 million to nonprofits, faith-based institutions, community development projects, and small businesses in or benefiting historically disinvested neighborhoods over the next five years. We invest a considerable amount of time and resources working through challenges that unfortunately aren’t just surface-level complexities. They are deeply rooted, systemically rooted, with the result being the exclusion of individuals and communities from accessing reasonably priced capital.

To reach its original commitment of an incremental $200 million in loans, Midwest BankCentre will need to originate a total of $495 million over the five-year period. We are proud that we are successfully tracking to our goal and are being responsibly transparent with our stakeholders about our successes, as well as the systemic challenges that we continue to face in helping more people in these communities gain access to opportunity and reasonably priced capital.”

Orvin Kimbrough, Chairman and CEO of Midwest BankCentre, believes there is a strong will to revitalize our region. Through the lens of Impact Banking, he sees a way forward. It requires community banks to be hyper-focused on making meaningful, long-term investments in communities that will lift more people up. It requires rethinking ROI in terms of both financial AND social returns to be transformative. It requires partnerships with anchor institutions, investors, and individuals to unleash the power of the capitalism and scalable capital to the benefit of all.

Read how BJC HealthCare partnered with MBC to address a historic lack of investment in the City of St. Louis and north St. Louis County.

Discover how BJC HealthCare financially invested more in the community by leveraging its balance sheet and partnered with MBC.

Learn how BJC HealthCare’s equity plan focuses on nutritional, maternal, and economic health.

Find how BJC HealthCare, and Midwest BankCentre, are working together to improve the health of the community by addressing a lack of investment in the city of St. Louis and north St. Louis County.

Corporate Philanthropy Awards 2023: Read how BJC HealthCare funnels capital into north St. Louis with help from Midwest BankCentre.

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Watch how Midwest BankCentre partnered to transform the community of Pagedale, MO through Impact Banking.

By Impact Banking with Midwest BankCentre, you gain a trusted financial partner while your dollars do more for our region’s most vulnerable — transforming lives and communities equitably, so we all RISE TOGETHER.