Community Spirit Award
The Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle’s annual Community Spirit Award recognizes a Seattle Bank member that exemplifies the spirit of community partnerships in creating affordable housing and economic development opportunities for residents, small business owners, and community service providers within our eight-state region.
2011 Community Spirit Award Winner
West Coast Bank
The Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle (Seattle Bank) named West Coast Bank, headquartered in Lake Oswego, Oregon, as the recipient of its 2011 Community Spirit Award.
West Coast Bank received the award based on its use of the Seattle Bank’s affordable housing and community investment programs. Through its membership in the Seattle Bank, West Coast Bank has provided more than $24 million dollars in grants and reduced-rate loans to create 380 units of affordable housing, to stimulate job growth, and to improve the communities it serves across Oregon and Southern Washington.
West Coast Bank received its award at a Community Spirit Luncheon, hosted by the Seattle Bank, on December 8, in Salem, Oregon. In addition to the award ceremony, the luncheon program featured presentations by: Tom Potiowsky, professor of economics at Portland State University; Margaret Van Vliet, director of Oregon Housing and Community Services; Mark Davis, director of systems and development for the Housing Authority of Yamhill County; and David Schaffert, president and CEO of the Thurston County Chamber. Invitees included Oregon state and local civic and community leaders and members of the Seattle Bank cooperative.
Read the press release.
Previous award recipients
2010
Glacier Bank
2009
First Interstate Bank
2008
Evergreen Federal Bank
2007
Alaska USA Federal Credit Union
2006
Rainier Pacific Bank
2005
Banner Bank
2004
Community Bank, Inc.
2003
Sterling Savings Bank