CUs Donate Time, Resources to Local Communities
Altura CU, Jeanne D’Arc CU are among the CUs making a difference in their communities this week.
RTN Federal Credit Union staff, community members and elected officials pose for a picture at the Waltham Walk Home. The $904 million RTN Federal Credit Union in Waltham, Mass., hosted the eighth annual Walk Home for the Homeless on June 10. More than 100 walkers, volunteers and staff participated in the 5k Walk, which took place simultaneously in three locations: Danvers Rail Trail, Dorchester Park and Waltham Common. Walk Home funds are collected through the RTN GoodWorks Foundation and donated to help homeless teens and families in Danvers, Dorchester and Waltham, and support the work of the Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless. RTN has raised close to $180,000 since the inception of Walk Home in 2011.
Mark S. Cochran, president/CEO of the $1.3 billion Jeanne D’Arc Credit Union in Lowell, Mass., takes a photo with MoneyStrong and Employee College Scholarship winners at an awards reception on May 23, 2018. To help defray the costs of higher education for local college students, Jeanne D’Arc Credit Union awarded $17,000 in college scholarships to its members through its MoneyStrong College Scholarship Program and Employee Scholarship Program. The recipients are comprised of both soon-to-be and current college students.
Employees from the $2.3 billion Robins Financial Credit Union in Warner Robins, Ga., volunteer their time at Women Build Day. Robins Financial Credit Union recently made a corporate donation to the Macon Area Habitat for Humanity. In addition to the corporate donation, a team of Robins Financial Credit Union employees met at a home in Lynmore Estates for Habitat’s Women Build Day. The employees worked on three habitat houses and completed projects like insulation, vinyl siding and painting the exterior of the houses. Robins Financial Credit Union has partnered with the Macon Area Habitat for Humanity since 2008 and employees have frequently donated their time to construct Habitat homes.
Employees from the $684 million Leominster Credit Union in Leominster, Mass., donate books to local organizations. Pictured (from left) are Erin Vasington of Red Raiders Lending Library; Kathy Hurley, LCU human resources manager; John O’Brien, LCU president/CEO; Barbara Abraham of the Leominster Community Coalition; Nancy Daigle, LCU receptionist and Rachel Terrell, LCU executive assistant showing off the donated books. For the past 18 consecutive years, the credit union has participated in Children’s Book Month, an annual event sponsored by the Cooperative Credit Union Association. During the month of April, LCU members and employees collected donations of 895 new and used children’s books. The books were distributed to the Red Raiders Lending Library program, Leominster Community Coalition and local organizations.
(From left) Ben Wiseman, vice president of member service for the $9.5 billion Security Service Federal Credit Union based in San Antonio, Texas, and Bryce Millecam, assistant vice president of member service for Security Service Federal Credit Union, present a $1,500 donation to John Hughes, director for the Alpine Transition and Education Center. Security Service Charitable Foundation, the charitable arm of Security Service, is helping Utah’s Alpine School District to fund a new transition skills program with a $1,500 donation that will go toward equipment to teach special needs students various shopping and retail skills. The Alpine School District’s Alpine Transition and Education Center helps students with special needs who were unable to fulfill graduation requirements due to their disability or condition. They provide daily life skills and job training, helping these students to find employment at local businesses.
The $1.3 billion Altura Credit Union presents a $600,000 donation to The Cheech, helping the project reach a key fundraising goal toward the creation of a permanent home for Cheech Marin’s 700-piece collection of Chicano art in Riverside, Calif. Pictured (from left) are Riverside Mayor Rusty Bailey; Assemblyman Jose Medina, (D-Riverside 61st District); Riverside Art Museum Board of Trustees Chair Lucile Arntzen; actor, comedian and Art Collector Cheech Marin; Altura President/CEO Jennifer Binkley and Ofelia Valdez-Yeager, Chairwoman for “Reach for The Cheech” community campaign. “The Cheech,” a term coined by Marin himself, will be a permanent home for Marin’s more than 700 works of Chicano art, including paintings, sculptures and photography, making it the most prominent collection of its kind in the U.S.