Through an approach called Investing for Good, Capital One Financial Services is committed to the local community and has recently focused its efforts on two different, deserving North Texas non-profits, Primary Care Clinic of North Texas and CHETNA. With locations in Dallas, Lewisville and Plano, Primary Care Clinic is a nonprofit healthcare facility that has been providing medical care to more than 90,000 uninsured and underinsured adults in the Metroplex since July 2003. CHETNA, which is Sanskrit for “awareness,” is a grassroots organization dedicated to helping victims of domestic violence in DFW’s South Asian community through emergency and transitional housing, education, transportation and financial assistance. Last year alone, CHETNA provided services to more than 150 victims escaping abusive relationships.
When Capital One learned of these two organizations, Sanjiv Yajnik, President of Capital One Financial Services, saw it as another opportunity for Capital One to be a catalyst for revitalizing communities Capital One serves in the Metroplex.
The Primary Care Clinic relies on funding from organizations and businesses like Capital One to provide services and medications at a subsidized cost to those in need. In Texas, one in five are without insurance. As a neighbor in the community, Capital One is partnering with the clinic to ensure more patients can receive care.
Most recently Capital One supported the Primary Care Clinic at its signature fundraising event, the 2016 Lone Star Cares Gala at the Hyatt Regency North Dallas. The annual Lone Star Cares Gala raises funds to hire physicians and medical staff and to educate people about the clinic and all that it offers. During the gala, the Primary Care Clinic presented its annual “Citizen of the Year” award to Yajnik.
In addition to its partnership with the Primary Care Clinic, Capital One is a strong advocate and community supporter of CHETNA. Through a recent grant, Capital One is helping expand CHETNA’s programs in three different areas: providing safe housing through CHETNA’s Flexible Transitional Housing Assistance program, promoting workforce development through workforce training and workshops, and increasing financial literacy through one-on-one workshops about budgeting, checking/savings accounts, how to build good credit and more.
Yajnik recently spoke at CHETNA’s annual gala, “Still I Rise,” at the Hotel Intercontinental in Addison, where Capital One returned as title sponsor.Through this sponsorship and recent Capital One grant, CHETNA will be able to further enhance services and resources provided to victims.
“The deeper you look into any community, the more you begin to see people as they truly are, the difficulties they’re going through – and you see opportunities to actively make the world better than you found it,” said Yajnik, who joined Capital One in 1998.
Throughout his career, Yajnik has stressed the importance of Capital One taking an active role in improving opportunities for local citizens, not in acting like a guest in the communities it serves or writing checks for nonprofits and then doing nothing else to help those organizations.
“There are good people in the community trying to do the right thing and create a good life for themselves and their loved ones, but sometimes they’re at the end of their rope and don’t know what to do,” said Yajnik. “Through partnerships with organizations like Primary Care and CHETNA, Capital One is able to reach into many different areas of need, play an active part and make a difference – one person at a time.”
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