CHICAGO–Fewer than two weeks after being announced, 52 credit unions have now signed on to participate in the CUToday for a Better Tomorrow initiative!
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 be a part of this exciting, people-helping-people effort 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.
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.
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.