Over the course of the first six months of Capital Institute's Year in the Life of a Regenerative Bank project, we have talked to the stakeholders of First Green Bank about the critical challenges they face as the bank works to embed its regenerative-values-based mission into its day-to-day operations and to balance the profit motive against the deeper motivation to participate in the healing and regeneration of an economy once dominated by citrus and now by often-rampant real estate development.

​We checked in with First Green Bank CEO Ken LaRoe at this midpoint in our project for a frank discussion about both the progress the bank has made and the inevitable setbacks it has encountered as its values bump up against real-world constraints. Ken remains committed to participating in the growing global values-based banking movement, and equally so to infusing that movement with a uniquely American style of regenerative banking.​​

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