Murmurings - National Credit Union Foundation Podcast

In this episode, we talk with two credit unions who have held an annual “kids day” or “youth day” for children in their communities. These are free events for families to attend, attracting hundreds of people. The events encourage savings, new memberships, engagement with community partners, along with financial education, fun, games and much more. For more information, you’ll hear from MSU Federal Credit Union in Michigan and Bear Paw Credit Union in Montana. They share details of their respective events and what they’ve learned over the years. For more information and pictures, visit https://blog.ncuf.coop/2017/11/murmurings-podcast-35-kids-day-with-bear-paw-cu/

In this episode, we dig into financial empowerment and improving financial well-being, which are both areas your Foundation is obviously very interested in and a big part of what we do. For more information, you’ll hear from Daniel Dodd-Ramirez, who serves as the Assistant Director for the Office of Financial Empowerment of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). We discuss their work, including information, resources, toolkits such as “Your Money, Your Goals", credit union partnerships and much more. To learn more, visit: https://blog.ncuf.coop/2017/10/murmurings-podcast-34-financial-empowerment-resources-via-cfpb/

How would you like to take your credit union’s annual meeting to the next level? That’s what Summit Credit Union in Madison, Wisconsin has done the last few years, evolving their meeting into a popular member appreciation event, drawing over 3,000 people. To learn more, on this episode you’ll hear from Jody Stolldorf at Summit about how they moved from a traditional annual meeting to "Summit Fest" with kids’ obstacle races, a meal, great giveaways, a pay it forward activity and much more in a local ballpark. We also talk about Summit’s unique Co-op Connection event in October that highlights different cooperatives in their community. To learn more and see pictures, visit: https://blog.ncuf.coop/2017/09/murmurings-podcast-33-annual-meeting-success-with-summit-credit-union/

On this episode, we talk about some interesting community outreach inspired by our Credit Union Development Education (DE) Program. To celebrate the 2nd DE Day of Service recently, GECU in El Paso, Texas, donated enough food to feed 100 local families in conjunction with the grand opening of the food pantry at the Lower Dyer Community Center. This expanded support was part of their efforts to include the 12 development issues – such as hunger - discussed during DE Training into their charitable strategy. You’ll hear from Ruby Alvarez, Community Development Manager at GECU, about not only the DE Day of Service, but their in-school branches, free tax preparation (VITA program), partnerships, Life Simulations for employees and much more. Check out the accompanying blog post here: https://blog.ncuf.coop/2017/09/murmurings-podcast-32-de-day-of-service-more-with-gecu/

On this episode, we're digging into diversity and inclusion with staff that work in this area at CUNA Mutual Group. You’ll hear from Eric Hansing, Vice President of Multicultural Strategy and Market Development, and Angela Russell, Director or Diversity and Inclusion. We talk about why it’s important, having conversations on the topic, research including leveraging qualitative and quantitative data, what credit unions can do, and so much more. Check out the accompanying blog post here: https://blog.ncuf.coop/2017/09/murmurings-podcast-31-diversity-inclusion/

It's August, which means kids across the country are starting school. Therefore, we have a special "back to school" episode for you as this is an area where many credit unions do a lot of amazing work. Educators Credit Union, based in Racine, Wisconsin, was actually founded by teachers in 1937 and is now a billion dollar financial institution serving everyone in their communities. We talk with Victor Frasher, Director of Community Engagement, about Educators’ community outreach involving area schools, financial education efforts, in-school branches, and more. For more information and pictures, visit https://blog.ncuf.coop/2017/08/murmurings-podcast-30-back-to-school-with-educators-credit-union/