2009 Best Practices Awards Program

Nominations may be submitted by credit unions themselves, a CUSO, or even another credit union. Nominations can also be submitted by suppliers to the credit union community that have clients they believe exemplify the best practice in implementing a particular product or service.

The criteria are as follows:

1. Best practice must have been deployed since June 1, 2008.
2. CU (or vendor) selects (or even creates) a category and nominates itself/client CU.
3. The entry should include: 500 words or fewer on why it believes it has created a best practice within its operation.
4. The nomination essay should include as many tangible measures as practical (including ROI where available) documenting the best practice; the background on environment prior to the implementation of the best practice; factors driving adoption of the best practice, and any new products/solutions deployed to achieve the best practice.

You may enter more than one category, and here’s the part that always has great appeal, there is no charge for entries. It’s free! Nominations should be e-mailed to the Managing Editor Lisa Freeman at lfreeman@cujournal.com. You can also visit the Letters to the Editor form and submit your Best Practice there.Deadline for entries is June 26. Winners will be profiled in Credit Union Journal later this year.