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The Northwest Indiana Reinvestment Alliance (NWIRA), through its business development program Diverse Women In Business Initiative (DWIBI), partnered with First Financial Bank to award $40,000 in grants to local, minority-owned small businesses.
First Financial Bank is donating $40,000 to minority-owned small businesses in Northwest Indiana. The Cincinnati-based bank, which has branches in Crown Point, Hammond, Highland, Gary, Schererville, St. John and Hobart, created a new Minority Small Business Fund to enable the Northwest Indiana Reinvestment Alliance to distribute grants to firms with few employees. âFirst Financial Bank has prioritized its support for minority small businesses, which are often undercapitalized and have a difficult time qualifying for traditional bank financing,â said Roddell McCullough, director of C...