Southern Bancorp

a bank on a mission: in 1986, then governor bill clinton and the winthrop rockefeller foundation announced an initiative to end decades of economic decline in rural arkansas by creating new trends of investment in people, jobs, business and property. southern bancorp, a community development bank holding company, and its family of nonprofit development affiliates would emerge from that initiative. a consortium of private foundations, governmental entities, corporations and concerned individuals would come together later that year to incorporate southern bancorp. southern is a bank on a mission to create economic opportunity in rural america by investing with both financial and human capital, empowering individuals and businesses to grow and thrive and thereby transforming these communities into self-sustaining models of positive capitalism. we’re looking for partners to help us reach even more communities so that we can change the face – and the fate – of rural america. for more inform