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A partnership with financial wellness benefit, Branch, ensures hourly employees are paid after every shift — an essential need for many during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The coronavirus pandemic has demonstrated how incompatible the workday is with raising children.

Noah Wilcox, a fourth-generation community banker, is president, CEO and chairman of Grand Rapids State Bank and its holding company, Wilcox Bancshares, both based in Grand Rapids, Minn; and president, CEO and chairman of Minnesota Lakes Bank in Delano, Minn. He is also a director at BankIn Minnesota, a state trade association. He is a former chairman of the Independent Community Bankers of America.

Before COVID-19 kept everyone still, these key executives made some strategic moves within the benefits space.

Senior Director, Cornerstone Advisors

Jason Tepperman served as the director of the U.S. Treasury Department’s Small Business Lending Fund from 2010 to 2014. He presently is the managing director of PLC Fund Advisors LLC, a specialized small business lender. The views expressed in this article are his own.

“Inclusion programs for the low vision community are critical, though these programs are being challenged by the impact of COVID-19,” says Robert Vaters, CEO of eSight.