DONATIONS

Desert Schools FCU, Phoenix, has donated $34,000 to Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation. Money was raised through a variety of events including employee fund raisers, the sale of bean bag animals and holiday music through the credit union's 15 branches, and the Desert Schools Children's Miracle Network golf tournament. Novi Community Credit Union, Mich., has sponsored and mentored a group of Novi High School students to victory for Distributive Education Clubs of America, an extracurricular club that enhances business and marketing education. Students attend an annual statewide DECA conference where they take exams, role-play business situations for a panel of judges, submit research papers and give presentations relating to various topics. The students are now qualified to compete at the national conference in Louisville, Ky. Hudson Valley FCU, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., has donated 157 teddy bears to the Child Abuse Prevention Center, an organization dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect. The teddy bears are provided as comfort to children in need. HVFCU has over $1 billion in assets and serves more than 113,000 members. Oregon Credit Union League, Beaverton, has announced that Oregon and SW Washington credit unions have raised a total of $510,000 for Doernbecher Children's Hospital and the pediatric units of Sacred Heart Hospital and Rogue Valley Medical Center. This is the second highest total in their 15 year effort to improve health care for children. This year's fundraising effort marks the end of the first year of a five-year campaign by the credit unions of Oregon and SW Washington to raise an additional $2.5 million to endow a Chair for the Department of Pediatrics at Doernbecher Children's Hospital.