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NCI Credit Union
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Neighborhood Centers Inc. Opens New Credit Union
| Neighborhood Centers Inc. has opened the NCI Community Development Credit Union to serve low-income families in the Gulfton/Sharpstown area. The new credit union is the first credit union to be chartered by the State of Texas since 2004, and is designed to help families who do not have a relationship with a traditional financial institution establish credit, grow a business, save for a home and become financially independent. |
Ray Chung, Vallette Windham, Denton Ragland, Randy Martinez, David Casares, Carolyn Watson
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More than 55 percent of the households in the Gulfton/Sharpstown area are unbanked and typically use check-cashing services, pawn shops and payday lenders. The NCI credit union builds on the trust the residents in the area already have with Neighborhood Centers and helps hard-working individuals strengthen their assets and enter the financial mainstream.
Membership in the NCI Community Development Credit Union is open to all residents who live, work, worship or attend school in the zip codes of 77036, 77074 or 77081. Members have access to free checking accounts, savings accounts, extended hours, bilingual employees, and innovative services, including citizenship and legal residency application loans and employment-based personal loans.
The NCI credit union temporarily is located in the Alliance for Multicultural Community Services building at 6440 Hillcroft, Suite 102 until construction on the new Baker-Ripley Neighborhood Center at 5500 Rookin is completed in late 2009.
Financial investors are Neighborhood Centers Inc., the Rockwell Fund, Texas Capital Bank, Texas Dow Employees Credit Union and the United Way of Greater Houston’s THRIVE initiative. |
Paul Van Tho, Ferol Beer, David Casares, Carolyn Watson, Jean Kegler, Vicki Birenbaum, Nancy Wooldridge Mitchell, Denton Ragland
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To learn more about the NCI Community Development Credit Union or to become a member, call 832-239-8599.
Visit the Credit Union website.
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