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2020 HBCU-Based Credit Unions Directory & Map

Posted on September 16, 2020 by | Leave a comment

HBCU-based credit unions have been largely stagnant in the past four years since our last report in 2016. Assets have increased marginally by $1.7 million or a 1.9 percent. Only the top three HBCU-based credit unions saw increases in their assets of the eleven with all others declining. The asset decline was coupled as well with an acute decline in overall members with an almost 10 percent drop from 2016. With millions of dollars and thousands of potential accounts at their doorstep, it is extremely baffling how these institutions continue to struggle to grow. Especially in an environment of heightened social and economic desire to #BankBlack. The most glaring issue for these credit unions is a lack of FinTech investment. This includes everything from lack of a quality website, debit cards, bill pay, an app, and more. Things that would be considered basics at most financial institutions are still notoriously lacking at HBCU-based credit unions.

In 2012, we published a proposal for a merger among the 11 HBCU-based credit unions (or at the very least an alliance) that would immediately create one of the largest African American credit unions by assets and membership. You can read that here.

  1. Southern Teachers & Parents (LA) – $30.3 million
  2. Florida A&M University (FL) – $22.9 million
  3. Virginia State University (VA) – $10.2 million
  4. Howard University Employees (DC) – $10.1 million
  5. Prairie View (TX) – $3.7 million
  6. Councill (AL) – $2.9 million
  7. Savastate Teachers (GA) – $2.7 million
  8. Arkansas A&M College (AR) – $2.3 million
  9. Xavier University (LA) – $1.7 million
  10. Tennessee State University (TN) – $1.5 million
  11. Shaw University (NC) – $0.4 million

TOTAL ASSETS: $88.7 MILLION

MEDIAN ASSETS: $3.3 MILLION

AVERAGE ASSETS: $8.1 MILLION

TOTAL MEMBERSHIP: 14,953

MEDIAN MEMBERSHIP: 754

AVERAGE MEMBERSHIP: 1,359

Source: National Credit Union Administration

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African America’s August 2020 Jobs Report – 13.0%

Posted on September 14, 2020 by | Leave a comment

African American Unemployment Rate %

OVERALL UNEMPLOYMENT: 8.4% (10.2%)

AFRICAN AMERICAN: 13.0% (14.6%)

LATINO AMERICAN: 10.5% (12.9%)

EUROPEAN AMERICAN: 7.3% (9.2%)

ASIAN AMERICAN: 10.7% (12.0%)

Previous month in parentheses.

Analysis: All groups saw drops in their unemployment rates, led by Latino America’s 240 basis point decrease. African Americans had second smallest decrease, with unemployment dropping 160 basis points.

AFRICAN AMERICAN UNEMPLOYMENT RATE BY GENDER & AGE

AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN: 13.2% (15.2%)

AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN: 12.0% (13.5%)

AFRICAN AMERICAN TEENAGE: 24.6% (22.5%)

 

AFRICAN AMERICAN PARTICIPATION BY GENDER & AGE

AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN: 65.9% (65.6%)

AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN: 60.2% (60.2%)

AFRICAN AMERICAN TEENAGE: 29.0% (29.4%)

Analysis: African American Men and Women saw declines in their unemployment rate, rates while African American Teenagers saw an uptick in their unemployment rate by 210 basis points. Participation rates for Men improved marginally, Women saw no improvement, and African American Teenagers saw a second straight month of decline with a 40 basis points decline in August.

African American Men-Women Job Gap: African American women currently have 898,000 more jobs than African American men in August. This is a decrease from 958,000 in July.

CONCLUSION: The overall economy added 1.371 million jobs in August. African America added 367,000 jobs in July or 26.8 percent of the overall jobs. From Yahoo Finance, “The US economy added back a greater than expected number of payrolls in August and the unemployment rate improved by a larger than anticipated margin, as employers continued to bring back workers as virus-related business disruptions abated. Still, the pace of payroll gains slowed relative to recent months. A rise in temporary hiring for the 2020 Census helped boost non-farm payrolls in August, with government jobs jumping by 344,000 month-on-month, including a gain of 238,000 directly due to Census hiring. But in the private sector, nearly ever major industry group in both services and manufacturing added payrolls on net as well.”

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Morehouse, Morehouse, Morehouse: 2019’s Million Dollar Donations To HBCUs Dominated By The Tigers Of The AUC

Posted on September 8, 2020 by | Leave a comment

“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.”

–Andrew Carnegie

2019 proved to be a stellar year for HBCUs and million dollar donations. Since HBCU Money began tracking these donors, 2019 has the most million dollar plus donations with eleven, ten to HBCUs directly and one to an HBCU supporting organization. Also in terms of total value of donations 2019 sets the record with $66.1 million. The one hiccup is that the number of donations is still not representative of the percentage of HBCUs to overall colleges and universities. HBCUs accounted for only 2.2 percent of the million dollar plus donations in 2019 (despite accounting for 3 percent of the nation’s colleges). That being said, the sun shined as bright as it ever has in 2019. There will be plenty of complaints that Morehouse College dominates the list with virtually half of the donations, but that also speaks to alumni not investing enough in their HBCU’s development infrastructure which at most HBCUs is an underfunded and understaffed. Endowing positions in the development office is a great place for alumni to see a strong return on investment of their alumni dollars.

High-quality donors (who give consistently and over their lifetime will probably give six to seven figures of donations) continue to show up for HBCUs, but still not representative of HBCUs presence in America’s higher education landscape. While HBCUs represent three percent of the country’s colleges, HBCUs accounted for only 2.2 percent of the million dollar plus donations in 2019. Tranformative donors (who can change the paradigm of an entire institution with one donation) continue to elude HBCUs all together, while PWI/HWCUs landed 10 donations of $100 million plus in 2019. CalTech, a private research focused university in Pasadena, CA, landed an awe inspiring $750 million donation from Stewart & Lynda Resnick.

The gap this year between top eleven PWI/HWCU gifts totaled $2.1 billion while HBCUs as mentioned totaled $66.1 million or a $32 to $1 ratio.

1. Robert F. Smith (pictured) – $34 million
Recipient: Morhouse College
Source of Wealth: Finance

2. Oprah Winfrey – $13 million
Recipient: Morehouse College
Source of Wealth: Media & Entertainment

3. Eugene McGowan, Jr.  – $4.6 million
Recipient: Morehouse College
Source of Wealth: Education

4. Jeffrey Dean & Heidi Hopper – $4 million
Recipient: Howard University
Source of Wealth: Technology

5. Virginia Howerton – $2.5 million
Recipient: Virginia Union College
Source of Wealth: Consulting

6. Shari Griswold – $2 million
Recipient: Prairie View A&M University
Source of Wealth: Oil

7. William Pickard & Judson Pickard, Jr. – $2 million
Recipient: Morehouse College
Source of Wealth: Food & Beverage, Hotels & Casinos

8. Jon Stryker – $2 million
Recipient: Spelman College
Source of Wealth: Family Wealth

9. Robert F. Smith – $1.5 million
Recipient: Morehouse College
Source of Wealth: Finance

10. Oprah Winfrey – $1.5 million
Recipient: UNCF
Source of Wealth: Media & Entertainment

11. Jose Feliciano & Kwanza Jones – $1 million
Recipient: Bennett College
Source of Wealth: Marketing, Finance

Source: Chronicle of Philanthropy

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