{"id":11402,"date":"2024-03-07T17:36:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T17:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=11402"},"modified":"2024-03-07T17:38:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T17:38:09","slug":"troy-brown-passionate-about-helping-minorities-get-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/07\/troy-brown-passionate-about-helping-minorities-get-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy Brown: Passionate About Helping Minorities Get Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Troy Brown<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Dawn Scotland<\/strong><\/em>
\nThe Truth Reporter<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIf I don\u2019t make you feel like you\u2019re the greatest person on earth when you come into those credit union doors then I\u2019m not doing my job. My job is to build trust and make sure that people understand\u00a0 that they have help. Hope and help that\u2019s what we\u2019re providing every single day.\u00a0 When you marry those two, I believe you have success.\u201d<\/p>\n

Troy Brown is a Compliance Officer at Toledo Urban Federal Credit Union.<\/p>\n

He started at the credit union in 2000 and left in 2002. Brown has returned to TUFCU in June 2023. \u201cLife is a big circle. It\u2019s funny how 24 years later I\u2019m back but I\u2019m here in a different capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA compliance officer is the person that helps with policy adherence and policy making,\u201d he said,\u201d and we also provide some safeguards for our members when it comes to transactions. We oversee different financial transactions to make sure everything is compliant with the law and different regulations. We\u2019re kind of like that third eye.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brown graduated from college with a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a specialty in international business and a minor in Spanish. He earned a master\u2019s degree in business education and taught four years in the charter school system, two years at Toledo Christian where he taught middle school and high school math and Spanish.<\/p>\n

After leaving the school system he started his own catering company, Upper Echelon School Food Services. \u201cFor nine years I fed the charter schools. We had a very successful catering company where we fed hot breakfast and hot lunches to multiple kids. We averaged 1300 units a day \u2013 both breakfast and lunch. So, I have extensive experience in entrepreneurship.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brown then worked at Amazon for a year and most recently worked as a former college recruiter for TRIO for a year and half at Owens Community College. He is now pursuing his doctorate in Leadership Studies at Bowling Green State University.<\/p>\n

Brown is a Toledo native who grew up witnessing entrepreneurship in his family. His grandfather, George Brown owned two bars, Zanzibar and The Yankee Inn – one downtown and one in the inner city in the 60s– and his father Rev. Gregory Brown turned the bar on Detroit and Oakwood into an ice cream shop, Brown\u2019s Tasty Cream, in the 1980s. \u201cAt six years old I\u2019m witnessing entrepreneurship of my father and saying to myself I want to own my own business too. That\u2019s how I got into business.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m passionate about helping minorities start businesses in the inner city. That\u2019s why I\u2019m here.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was the pandemic that showed him the desperate needs that many have in our communities. He took his catering company to the children and fed them in apartment complexes when the schools closed. \u201cChildren depended upon those lunches and hot breakfast trays…access to capital and food [is a big problem].\u201d There was a drive by-shooting in which a 19-year-old was killed one during one of his deliveries. \u201cIt woke this Black man up\u2026 with tears in my eyes I asked God what else can I do?…He’s prepared me to be back here [at the credit union]. \u00a0It\u2019s not about me. It\u2019s about God and how we can be a light.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDr. Suzette [Cowell] has the vision, and the bible says, \u2018write the vision and make it plain that they may run with it\u2019 . Who are the \u2018they\u2019? It\u2019s all of us that work here…the tellers, the board members\u2026 God gave Dr. Suzette the vison and we\u2019re running with it\u2026 this didn\u2019t just happen overnight. I thank God that we have leadership of Dr. Suzette with the vision from God to build Toledo.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not about us,\u201d remarked Brown, \u201cit\u2019s about the next generation.\u201d<\/p>\n

To learn more about the Toledo Urban Federal Credit Union visit their location on 1441 Dorr St. or their new second location on Monroe St. (former Fifth\/Third at Swayne Field).<\/p>\n

TUFCU offers checking, savings, mortgages, credit cards and loans, among other services, as well as a new down payment assistance program for first time home buyers and a low interest loan for home repair contractors.<\/p>\n

Visit ToledoUrban.net or call 419-255-8876 for more information.<\/p>\n

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