Ascentra CU
Members of the $495 million Ascentra Credit Union's leadership team present a $23,350 check to the River Bend Foodbank in front of a culture wall featuring the credit union's late president/CEO, Dale Owen, at Ascentra's home office in Bettendorf, Iowa. Through an auto loan promotion, Ascentra members generated the donation that will provide approximately 116,750 meals for local families in Iowa's Quad Cities, Clinton and Muscatine communities, which the credit union serves. Since 2018, Ascentra members financing a new vehicle during the holiday season have been eligible to receive $50 and give a $50 donation from Ascentra to a predetermined charity in that member's community. This 2020 holiday promotion was part of a larger "Season of Caring" awareness campaign developed to bring awareness to the food insecurity caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in the region. Pictured from left to right in the front row are Ascentra SVP and Chief Marketing Officer Jennifer Naeve, River Bend Foodbank Director of Corporate & Foundation Giving Leslie Corlett and River Bend Foodbank President/CEO Mike Miller. Pictured from left to right in back row are Ascentra CFO Jay England, Ascentra Interim President/CEO Linda Andry, Ascentra EVP and Chief Technology Officer Brad Knutson and Ascentra Marketing Team Lead Barry Shaw.
Polish & Slavic FCU Polish & Slavic Federal Credit Union team members show off swag during the $2.3 billion, Brooklyn, N.Y.-based credit union's seventh annual holiday donation drive. From Nov. 27 to Dec. 31, 2020, members of PSFCU donated $103,000 to organizations and foundations committed to assisting sick, terminally ill and disadvantaged children including The Children's Home Hospice Foundation in Otwock, Poland; the Nursing Home for Children and Youth in Broniszewice, Poland; the Blessed M. Sopocko Hospice in Vilnius, Lithuania; and the New York Children's Smile Foundation in Queens, N.Y. Members donated money while visiting local PSFCU branches or online via the credit union's mobile banking app and website. In total, thousands of members donated to the effort over the 35 days, recording nearly 4,700 donation transactions.
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Natasha Chilingerian
Natasha Chilingerian has been immersed in the credit union industry for over a decade. She first joined CU Times in 2011 as a freelance writer, and following a two-year hiatus from 2013-2015, during which time she served as a communications specialist for Xceed Financial Credit Union (now Kinecta Federal Credit Union), she re-joined the CU Times team full-time as managing editor. She was promoted to executive editor in 2019. In the earlier days of her career, Chilingerian focused on news and lifestyle journalism, serving as a writer and editor for numerous regional publications in Oregon, Louisiana, South Carolina and the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition, she holds experience in marketing copywriting for companies in the finance and technology space. At CU Times, she covers People and Community news, cybersecurity, fintech partnerships, marketing, workplace culture, leadership, DEI, branch strategies, digital banking and more. She currently works remotely and splits her time between Southern California and Portland, Ore.
