 about us who we are the community reinvestment association of north carolina s mission is to promote and protect community wealth we advocate for change in the lending practices of financial institutions to promote wealth building of underserved communities and to end predatory lending practices that strip wealth committed to creative advocacy cranc uses research education mobilization media litigation regulatory changes legislative advocacy and stockholder actions to initiate change a cranc action  street theater protest in the narrative format of the perils of pauline dudley doright or in this case delaware doright to speak out against payday lending in delaware  a creative approach to advocacy cranc has a longstanding tradition of advocacy for social justice we are well known for our creative theatrical approach to community mobilization and protesting in the usually humdrum financial world we have waged several memorable campaigns over the years which have each produced positive impact both in north carolina and across the united states defaultcranclog0png 