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Brian Menges stands in front of a counter with his hand resting on it while smiling and looking at the camera. He wears a white chef’s uniform with his name on it.

Providing ‘a ramp back to success’ for small businesses

Small Business

Providing ‘a ramp back to success’ for small businesses

The nonprofit MoFi is providing working capital to small businesses through its new Thrive loan program, thanks to a $2.1 million grant from Wells Fargo’s Open for Business Fund.

A young professional woman is looking straight in to the camera.

Volunteering & Giving

BankWork$: Opening doors to careers in the banking industry

Volunteering & Giving

BankWork$: Opening doors to careers in the banking industry

Since 2014, Wells Fargo has supported BankWork$, a free, eight-week career training program that prepares young adults from low-income communities for entry-level positions to build meaningful careers in banking.

Homeowner LaTasha Taylor is in her kitchen, appearing in a Zoom meeting.

Housing

Restoring Black homeownership in gentrified north Portland

Housing

Restoring Black homeownership in gentrified north Portland

City leaders and nonprofits in Portland, Oregon, are boosting Black homeownership through down payment aid and other incentives, supported in part by Wells Fargo’s NeighborhoodLIFT.

Three large white structures are side by side on grass. On the side of one of them is: ESS INC and EW, 100kW400kWh. Behind the structures are solar panels and wind turbines.

Helping to power large-scale operations with iron and saltwater

Environment

Helping to power large-scale operations with iron and saltwater

Energy Storage Systems Inc. is providing safer and longer-lasting batteries at a lower cost and introducing its technology to the world after participating in the Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator program.

Three men are sitting around a table in a dining room talking and laughing while eating lunch.

Volunteering & Giving

Where some go when there is no place to go

Volunteering & Giving

Where some go when there is no place to go

Men struggling with addiction are finding refuge at the Blanchet House, a nonprofit in Portland, Oregon, that vows it will ‘never give up’ on them.

Michael Wakefield and Bill Trento standing in a pasture with two horses.

Diversity & Inclusion

Driving with pride as the ‘face of Wells Fargo’

Diversity & Inclusion

Driving with pride as the ‘face of Wells Fargo’

Michael Wakefield shares his experience as a Wells Fargo stagecoach driver — and how he feels supported in the company’s inclusive environment.

Chy Lung & Co.’s wholesale tea store in San Francisco was listed in Wells Fargo’s directory of Chinese businesses.

History

Supporting customers faced with prejudice

History

Supporting customers faced with prejudice

After Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882, Wells Fargo agents testified on behalf of Chinese customers and supported their businesses.

total solar eclipse over Wells Fargo's McAlister branch in Greenville, S.C.

Inside the Stagecoach

On the stagecoach during the Great American Eclipse

Inside the Stagecoach

On the stagecoach during the Great American Eclipse

From Oregon to South Carolina, Wells Fargo team members kept the lights on and doors open to serve customers during the historic total solar eclipse.

2017 Succeeding Together essay contest winner Gerry Jones Jr. hit a tee shot

Inside the Stagecoach

Young golfers named winners of 2017 Succeeding Together contest

Inside the Stagecoach

Young golfers named winners of 2017 Succeeding Together contest

Participants in the youth development program The First Tee submitted essays about achieving life goals through teamwork.

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