The FNB Blog

In this week’s episode of the Dream Maker Podcast, we interviewed Brandon Mumgaard. At FNB, we know Brandon as the Small Business Administration (SBA) guru. Currently working at the Garden City branch, we invited him on to discuss the many options available to businesses from the SBA.

Join us in the conversation or read the summary below as we cover the SBA and their two main programs: PPP and EIDL loans. We’ll show you everything you need to know about these programs and how to navigate them.

Today, First National Bank (FNB) of Syracuse announced that it is a proud recipient of four distinguished awards from the Institute for Extraordinary Banking’s™ 2022 Extraordinary Banking™ Awards, and the highest honor of being inducted into the Institute for Extraordinary Banking™ Hall of Fame.

Welcome to the FNB business spotlight! As a community bank, we like to highlight businesses within the local community to help celebrate their successes! We spoke with Sheldon and Tera Barnhardt, owners of Barnhardt Construction. In this article, they talk about how the company got started, when they started to see success, and what their overarching goals are for Barnhardt Construction.

They close by talking about how important it is to adapt as a business owner and then providing advice to other prospective business owners. Continue reading to hear from Sheldon and Tera of Barnhardt Construction!

As part of our mission to help the community, FNB has started the #RiseUp4Families program. This donation program uses employee-donated money to better the lives of families within the community along with the families of FNB employees. The money we provide to families in need is donated by our own employees.

Curious about the #RiseUp4Families program? Read on to learn more about how we’ve helped our local community.

In this episode of the FNB Dream Maker Podcast, we talk with Chief Lending Officer Matt Bennett of First National Bank’s Garden City branch. He’s been in banking for over 20 years and joined us to talk about the Jolene Brown seminar we held last year. There were a lot of good takeaways from our pre-Thanksgiving seminar.