Full bellies, full hearts: Credit unions in the community
August 11, 2017 1:20 PM
Daily Bread donation
Member One FCU, Roanoke, Va., donated $1,000 to Lynchburg Daily Bread, a non-profit organization in Lynchburg, Va., as part of Member One’s quarterly Denim Days for Charities, when employees donate a minimum of $5 in exchange for wearing jeans on a specific day. In addition, the executive team served meals to 92 guests.
$5,000 in scholarships
New Horizons CU, Mobile, Ala., awarded five, $1,000 scholarships to deserving high school seniors. Applicants were chosen based on their academic achievement, community involvement and essay responses.
Share-A-Bear fundraiser
Park City CU, Merrill, Wis., held its seventh annual Share-A-Bear fundraiser, raising $4,229.06 for the Children’s Miracle Network, plus a large donation of stuffed animals.
Sioux Falls FCU expands
Sioux Falls FCU opened its sixth location in Sioux Falls, S.D., the South Louise Branch. The new branch features a 24-hour ATM, three drive-up teller windows, night drop, self-service coin counting machine, Welcome Center, Transaction Center and Relationship Center.
Diamond's golf invitational
Diamond CU, Pottstown, Pa., held its 13th Annual Charity Golf Invitational at Golden Oaks Golf Club. The event raised more than $31,000 for the American Cancer Society Relay For Life, adding to a 13-year total of more than $346,000 raised at the annual event.
Merger and ribbon cutting
Moline, Ill.-based Vibrant CU hosted a grand opening and ribbon-cutting at its Wolf Road location in Westchester, Ill. Vibrant merged with Salt Creek CU earlier this year and has since rebranded the Westchester branch.
Play ball!
Pam Fleuette, CEO of Tidemark FCU, Seaford, Del., threw out the first pitch for the Nanticoke Little League at Williams Pond Park in Seaford.
IRONMAN sponsor
TDECU, Lake Jackson, Texas, was a sponsor of IRONMAN Texas 2017, held in The Woodlands, Texas. TDECU’s sponsorship contributed to the world-class IRONMAN event being held in the local Houston market, which attracted 3,100 athletes, 5,165 volunteers and more than 50,000 spectators.
Meriwest awards grant
Meriwest CU, San Jose, Calif., sponsored the Assistance League of San Jose with a $3,000 grant through Autoland, LLC - Auto Buying's charitable grant program. The funds will help support ALSJ's Readers are Leaders program.
Back-to-back volunteer weeks
Staffers at Dow Chemical Employees’ CU, Midland, Mich., participated in volunteer projects on back-to-back weeks. Some 20 employees participated in Midland County Habitat for Humanity’s Women Build Week, as DCECU served as a T-shirt sponsor. Then, eight employees cleaned litter from nearly a mile of the boulevard near the CU through the Adopt-A-Street program.
MD|DC Millionaire’s Club
Student members of the SECU of Maryland-sponsored Millionaire's Club at the Applications and Research Lab in Ellicott City, Md., were named Millionaire’s Club of the Year by the Credit Union Foundation MD|DC, creators of the growing financial literacy program.
