November 18th, 2021263DULUTH, GA (November 9, 2021) – Georgia United Foundation is excited to announce the return of their Wish Tree program. Now in its 31st year, Wish Tree provides gifts to children in need in Georgia through generous donations made by members and community partners.
Make the holidays brighter for children now through December 8, 2021, by donating requested toys or articles of clothing from the online shopping list found at gucufoundation.org/wishtree or by selecting an ornament at any of the Georgia United Credit Union’s branch locations. Purchased gifts from the online shopping list will ship directly to the branch and the local...
November 18th, 2021994DULUTH, GA (Oct. 20, 2021) – It is an exciting time of growth at Georgia United Credit Union. The credit union is proud to announce a field of membership expansion to now include the counties of Catoosa, Walker, Floyd, Lumpkin, Habersham, White and Banks.
“We are proud to reach this important milestone and look forward to serving our new communities,” said President and CEO Debbie Smith. “Georgia United is a financial and community partner and we are excited to help our new members achieve their financial goals at every stage of life.”
Under the new charter expansion, those living or working in the following counties are...
November 17th, 2021384Tuscaloosa, AL – November 16, 2021 – The Alabama ONE Foundation will host its third annual Bridge Builders Conference on November 18, 2021 from 8:00 AM – 2:00 PM CT at Bryant Conference Center on The University of Alabama campus.
The Bridge Builders Conference is the first of its kind in West Alabama. This free, one-day conference focuses on improving our community and connects local leaders in order to exchange ideas and resources to build bridges of communication and support for the communities they serve.
The 2021 Bridge Builders Conference will focus on building a bridge to the future of education. Attendees will have the...
November 16th, 2021453Warner Robins, GA – Robins Financial Credit Union recently contributed care packages to send off to troops who are currently serving overseas. Employees were able to provide items to be boxed and sent to the troops just in time for the holidays.
As a part of this annual collection, Robins Financial Credit Union was able to provide a variety of items from snacks and grooming items to magazines, batteries, and other beneficial items. Robins Financial also partnered with a local elementary school to provide hand written notes from students. These packages will be sent to troops deployed from Robins Air Force Base.
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November 16th, 20213187Atlanta, Ga. (Nov. 16, 2021) – LGE Community Credit Union recently honored hometown hero and LGE spokesperson Dansby Swanson with a mural displayed at the Marietta Square.
The mural features a portrait of Swanson in a Marietta High School letterman jacket, paying homage to LGE and Swanson’s shared Marietta roots. Swanson is a 2012 graduate of Marietta High School.
LGE commissioned the portrait through its sponsorship of Chalktoberfest – a widely-attended event hosted annually by the Marietta Cobb Museum of Art. Artist Ivann Garc painted the portrait live over the two-day Chalktoberfest event on October 9 & 10, 2021. The...
November 12th, 20215142Warner Robins, GA — Each quarter, Robins Financial Credit Union selects three employees that represent the best of the best in three categories – Manager, Support Department Staff and Branch Staff. Employees are selected by management based on their outstanding work performance and written recommendations from their peers. The winners chosen for the third quarter of 2021 are as follows:
Barbara Mead, Houston Lake Branch – Mead is the Branch Manager and has been employed with Robins Financial for almost 38 years with 18 of those years as the Houston Lake Branch Manager. Mead is a member of Warner Robins Civitan that assists those...
November 8th, 2021564Warner Robins, GA — Robins Financial Credit Union recently made a corporate donation to the Macon Area Habitat for Humanity.
In addition to the corporate donation, a team of Robins Financial Credit Union employees met at a home in Lynmore Estates for Habitat’s “Women Build Day.” These awesome ladies completed projects like interior/exterior painting, cleaning, building stair handrails and installing storm doors.
Robins Financial Credit Union has partnered with the Macon Area Habitat for Humanity since 2008, and employees have frequently donated their time to construct Habitat homes.
Robins Financial Credit Union is a local...
November 5th, 20218132Jacksonville, Florida — VyStar Credit Union announced today the launch of its Military Heroes Mortgage
Program, which honors those who protect, serve and care for our country and communities. This new program
supports our heroes through a wide variety of benefits, payment and closing options and assistance from a
specially created VyHero Mortgage Support Team.
“Since our founding at Naval Air Station JAX in 1952, supporting our military members and their families has
been at the core of what we do,” said Jennifer Kouchis, VyStar’s Senior Vice President of Real Estate Lending.
“We understand the unique challenges our troops...
November 4th, 20213150Meet Moira.
Moira has been a Florence Federal Credit Union teller for just shy of a decade, though the word “shy” does not describe her at all. She is vibrant, gregarious, tenacious. Moira demonstrated this to the world in November of this past year, when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. By the end of that same month, Moira had already returned to Helen Keller Hospital for a lumpectomy and returned home that very afternoon. She underwent twenty-one rounds of radiation treatment at the Singing River Cancer Center, and was given the all-clear to ring the Cancer-Free bell on March 11, 2021, only four months later. ...Did we mention...
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