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2021 Foundation Celebration recap
A NIGHT TO REMEMBER
The National Credit Union Foundation (the Foundation) hosted the virtual 2021 Foundation Celebration on Tuesday, March 2 in conjunction with CUNA GAC. The virtual fundraising event was an uplifting evening spent with past Wegner Award winners to celebrate all the great work credit unions have been doing during the pandemic.
The Foundation Celebration was presented by Visa, a proud supporter and advocate for the Foundation and for credit unions. Throughout the evening, participants were asked to text to give to make an impact. The Foundation is so thankful for the generosity of our movement, and so far $6,000 has been raised to improve people’s financial lives through credit unions.
Gigi Hyland at CUNAGAC 2021.
Financial well-being for all is an “all-in endeavor” that requires equal parts empathy and strategy, according to panelists participating in the 2021 CUNA Governmental Affairs Conference general session.
“It really has to be up and down the spine of the credit union,” says Gigi Hyland, executive director of the National Credit Union Foundation. “It’s the board members, it’s the CEO, and it’s everybody in between. In order to foster change, financial well-being for all has to involve everyone at the credit union.”
Hyland offers three ideas for credit unions to consider in adopting a financial well-being for all mindset:
Robert Cashman named treasure of NCUF
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Metro Credit Union announced that Robert Cashman, CEO and president, was named board treasurer of the National Credit Union Foundation.
In this role, he is responsible for general financial oversight of the foundation s accounts as well as funding, fundraising and other various membership duties.
NCUF, which is closely aligned with the Credit Union National Association, is widely known as the charitable arm of the U.S. credit union movement. Its vision is to make financial freedom achievable through credit unions. In the last 15 years, NCUF awarded more than $36 million worth of grants to help credit unions better serve their members.