"Financial success is about empowerment. Its about freedom. Its about breaking the bonds of slavery to debt, to collectors, to bankruptcy, to worry." When entrepreneur Donald Snider put together the plans for First Spirit Bank, a new minority-owned community bank in Detroit, he wanted to build an institution that would encourage the minority community. He wanted to partner with the people of the area--helping them to better manage their money and to pursue new financial opportunities.

"Too many of us are just surviving, just getting by," says Mr. Snider. "But it doesnt have to be that way. The opportunity is ripe for changing the path were on as a community and achieving financial independence."

In Banking on Success: The Spirit of Financial Empowerment, Donald Snider spells out his inspiring message of empowerment. He explains why the African-American community is struggling financially. Then he provides practical guidance on how to better manage money and spiritual guidance on how to follow God to our place of assignment--how to use the talents He gave us to become entrepreneurs and wealth generators.