OCC's Community Affairs staff participates in a range of initiatives designed to help improve our understanding of community credit and financial services needs.
Community Tours
OCC staff participates in tours led by neighborhood organizations, local government officials, and bankers to learn about local community and economic development initiatives.
The Bronx and Harlem, New York
Students at the Fordham Leadership Academy describe what they have learned while working at the bank branch to Comptroller Dugan. |
Tour participants visit Elm Place in the Bronx, a block that has been starkly affected by subprime lending. |
Comptroller Dugan watches students demonstrate an interactive "Financial Jeopardy" game they created. |
Slideshow of sites visited |
Chicago, Illinois
The tour stops to view a property renovated by the Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago. |
The Comptroller discusses financial literacy programs with Dory Rand of the Woodstock Institute. |
Park National Bank Chairman Michael Kelly describes the financial literacy programs offered at the Community Savings Center. |
Comptroller Dugan with staff members of Park National Bank's Community Savings Center. |
Participants view a neighborhood where the Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago has been helping residents confront the challenges of predatory lending and foreclosures. |
Neighborworks Week
OCC staff members participate in the annual national Neighborworks Week community fix-up event sponsored by Neighborworks America (NWA). This event brings NWA's 250 neighborhood organizations together with their communities' residents, business leaders, financial institutions, government officials, and volunteers in support of community revitalization projects.
NeighborWorks Paints Video | Transcript
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