CHICAGO–Thirty-two credit unions have now signed on with the CUToday for a Better Tomorrow initiative, in just the three days after it was announced.
The CUToday.info-backed effort has a simple challenge for credit unions that could have extraordinary affect: help one extra member per month in October, November and December.
CUToday.info is championing this fourth quarter 2015 initiative that is designed to help credit union members, individual credit unions, and the credit union community as a whole. The effort is being launched to mark CUToday.info’s one-year anniversary in October. All credit unions are being invited to participate.
CUToday.info has made it extremely easy to participate by banning the CFPB from any role: all participating credit unions have to do is respond to a monthly e-mail with a single paragraph on the member who was helped, and how. CUToday.info will then compile into one document all of the examples of how credit unions are making members’ lives better. The document will be available for free to everyone. It’s that simple.
“Our overall goal had been 25 credit union, and the fact 33 have signed on already after just three days is exciting,” said CUToday.info Cooperator in Chief Frank J. Diekmann. “CUToday.info has grown into the number-one news platform in credit unions much more quickly than we ever projected, and now so, too, has the CUToday For a Better Tomorrow initiative.”
The ways in which a credit union may help its members to have a better 2016 are as varied as the ways CUs help people: the refinancing of an overpriced loan from another lender; moving an unbanked or underbanked person into an account; saving a member from a predatory check-casher; assisting an elderly member with straightening out their finances, and so much more. Credit unions that already have such active efforts in place are encouraged to participate, as well.
Among the credit unions that have signed on with CUToday For a Better Tomorrow are Community Choice CU, Ventura County Credit Union, Guadalupe Credit Union, Tallahassee-Leon Federal Credit Union, Pyramid Credit Union, Northeast Family FCU, Garden Savings FCU, Democracy FCU, Greater Abbeville FCU, Spartan FCU, Hanscom FCU, School Employees CU of Washington, Falls Catholic CU, Education Plus CU, Cove FCU, First Commercial CU, Complex Community FCU, NHCU, County City CU, Reliant FCU, Great Lakes CU, DGE FCU, Electro Savings CU, OUR CU, Edge FCU, BECU, Credit Union of Texas, First Education FCU, Grow Financial CU and, in the Philippines, Tekton Entre Multipurpose Cooperative.
Credit unions that are interested in helping one extra member per month as part of this initiative can contact Diekmann at Frank@CUToday.info. Those CUs will receive an introductory letter, and then one e-mail in October, November and December as a very simple reminder to provide their one paragraph story of how they have helped to create a better tomorrow for that member.