A Year In The Life of a Regenerative Bank
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FIRST GREEN BANK'S REGENERATIVE CHALLENGES

"The Year in the Life" project will be following First Green Bank as it takes on the challenges of operating both regeneratively and profitably in Central Florida. 

Meeting Investor Expectations

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David Raab, President of Roseville Farms & FGB Investor
"Kenny has proven that values and banking are not mutually exclusive."
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Evangelical Minister and First Green Bank Board Member Joel Hunter
"There has also been a certain amount of conflict on the board of directors and I see myself in a peacemaker role there."   
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Jim Gissy, VP, Westgate Resorts and FGB investor
“I like the idea that their focus is thinking about sustainability of the environment. What good will it do if the environment is screwed up?  It won’t matter how much money you have.”
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Creating a Holistic-Values Banking Culture

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FGB Credit Analyst Justin Allender 
"I am not saying we put the environment ahead of the economy. I am talking about making ethical and moral decisions as part of our economic decisions."  
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Cultivating 
Regenerative Borrowers

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Hugh Kent, Owner, King Grove Organic Farm & FGB Borrower
 "I think Ken knew what I was trying to do, to honor parts of the natural world that are still left in Florida and try to do something with a different kind of development."
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Banking the Unbanked

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FGB Teller Jessica Schwarz
"We see this new account as our way of being there for people in our community who are living  paycheck to paycheck."
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Convenience Store Conversion

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James Johnson-Piett, CEO, Urbane Development
“Our idea is these convenience stores can be places where folks convene, they can create those place-making opportunities."
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Regenerating an Economy in Transition

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Helping to guide a rural county economy vulnerable to extractive development.
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Greening the Built Environment 

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Stuart Cowan,  Partner in regenerative design firm Autopoiesis LLC
“How can we begin to solve for the gap between what appraisers can and cannot value today in their projects, versus what that underlying deeper sense of value might be?" 
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Constructing Florida's First Living Building
Anyone who walks into FGB's Mt. Dora LEED Platinum branch is immersed in a regenerative built landscape. Inspired by the Bullitt Center in Seattle, FGB now aspires to build a new facility for its Clermont Branch that is truly a "Living Building."
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