RALEIGH, N.C.-State Employee Credit Union's SECU Foundation has presented the Hospice of Wake County with a $500,000 check to be used to construct SECU Healing Gardens, a peaceful, reflective area to benefit patients and their families.
The Foundation had announced in October that it would make the donation as part of a matching gift to Hospice of Wake County's "Building Partners in Caring" capital campaign. The newly completed Hospice and Palliative Care Center is scheduled for public dedication on Jan. 9, 2010 and will serve five North Carolina counties.
Separately, State Employees' Credit Union reported its employees and members provided help to more than 900 non-profits through the 2009 State Employees Combined Campaign (SECC). SECU employees donated over $66,000 to this year's Campaign, and SECU members, via their Foundation, provided $200,000 in funding for the SECC Resource Guide Listing, helping to offset administrative costs of the campaign. The Campaign provides an opportunity for active and retired employees of the State of North Carolina to donate to charitable organizations.
