ONTARIO, Calif.– More than 30 employees from 15 credit unions in Orange, San Bernardino, and Los Angeles counties in California—as well as affiliated companies—come together to help others in a special “Credit Union Day of Service” on Dec. 7.
The employees came from the following credit unions: Calcom Federal Credit Union (Torrance), Chaffey Federal Credit Union (Upland), Communidad Latina Federal Credit Union (Santa Ana), Credit Union of Southern California (Anaheim Hills), LaLoma Federal Credit Union (Loma Linda), Mattel Federal Credit Union (El Segundo), Media City Community Credit Union (Burbank), Nikkei Credit Union (Gardena), Pasadena Service Federal Credit Union, Printing Industries Credit Union (Riverside), Santa Ana Federal Credit Union, SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union (Santa Ana, CA), South Bay Credit Union (Redondo Beach), United Catholics Federal Credit Union (West Covina), and VA Desert Pacific Federal Credit Union (Long Beach).
In addition, there were employees from credit union business partners and associations, including Allied Solutions (Carmel, Ind.), Break Ice Marketing (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.), Cook Security Group (Corona, Calif,), Credit Union National Association (Washington), CUNA Mutual Group (Madison, Wis.), Meyer Chatfield (Jenkintown, Penn.), P360, Inc. (Newport Beach, Calif.), StrategyCorps (Brentwood, Tenn.), TPx Communications (Los Angeles), and VERO (Ontario, Calif.).
The group met at Evangelical Christian Credit Union in Brea, CA, then split into smaller groups and spent the morning volunteering at non-profit organizations in Orange County, including WisePlace, Pathways of Hope, and Habitat for Humanity Orange County.
At WisePlace—a Santa Ana, Calif.-based organization that provides, among other things, transitional housing for homeless women—volunteers from the credit unions decorated the organization’s gym for a special holiday party for the women it serves, as well as the organization’s lobby area.
While at Pathways of Hope in Fullerton, Calif, a group prepared bags of food and sorted through toy donations the organization will use to provide for families in the Fullerton area this holiday season. In Placentia, CA credit union volunteers braved the extremely windy conditions to do a variety of construction projects at two new home build sites for Habitat for Humanity.