Tree House Treats: Santa Cruz Lighthouse Bank Community Page

Santa Cruz Lighthouse Bank Community Page

A Bank, is a Bank, is a Bank?

Not anymore, so choose wisely.

Richard G. Hofstetter, Lighthouse Bank President & CEO, is the featured guest author of this recent issue of Burroughs Financial Report. He discusses points to consider when selecting a new bank or evaluating your current provider. Click here to read the article.

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Richard was the first person at Lighthouse Bank I contacted. I wrote to him concerning banks and banking. He didn't know who I was and he wrote a very considered note back, which I greatly appreciated. That was a couple years back. Now with have been banking with Lighthouse for that long and I have the funny feeling that my childhood dream is finally being fulfilled;

I don't know how the heck I even saw this TV commercial, since I grew up in a house without TV but maybe that had something to do with why it left such an impression on me; a TV commercial for a bank who cares. It really got inside me. They made it emotionally like those classic Hovis bread ads (UK from the 70s)..

.. can't find the bank one from back then but they had the bank manager heading down from his house to his bank, greeting everyone as he went, knowing everyone... Cheesy, maybe but I like it!

Over the years I have banked with every small bank that rose in my vicinity (in both UK & US) and it is always worth its weight in gold. In the UK, The People's Bank in East London (cannot find now?) and Ecology Building Society. In Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Community Credit Union (SCCCU started off with deposits in a biscuit tin and now lead the way as best brightest greenest credit unions in the country), Bay Federal (awesome connection with bank manager in River Street branch this past summer as Maggi & I set up the River Prayer Shawl venture), Santa Cruz County Bank (Only The Brave kilts!!), & Lighthouse Bank (1000 Hummingbirds)... Yes, between all the non-profit and micropreneurial ventures, we've been in them all!

We love that Kyle Thiermann launched CLAIM YOUR CHANGE.. it's all about how your banking choices, even if you don't deal in mega bucks, can shape and re-shape our World