Members First CU Partners With Big Brothers Big Sisters On Financial Ed Mentoring

Published October 22, 2008, 8:12 p.m. EDT

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Updated August 27, 2020, 1:00 a.m. EDT

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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Members First CU announced its second annual financial literacy program with the TriVillage Mentor League, an independently-funded partner of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Ohio, for a six-month program during the 2008-2009 school year.

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Members First will provide monthly financial literacy education to over 120 students at Stevenson Elementary in the Grandview Heights School District, and Wickliffe and Windermere Elementary schools in the Upper Arlington School District.

Also included in this partnership is a $2,000 donation from Members First’s Beverly Paul Memorial Scholarship fund to the TriVillage Mentor League to help with its programming costs and includes funding for TVML’s John Miller Scholarship fund. Through this fund, two college scholarships are awarded to graduating seniors who are volunteer teen mentors.

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