Envision Financial employees have pledged more than $44,000 tocharities and other community organizations in its hometown ofLangley, British Columbia.
|Recipients will include food banks, a children's hospice and theUnited Way. The donations will be made via regular paycheckdeductions and that total doesn't include the credit union's othergiving and volunteer programs throughout the year.
|“Giving is a privilege—we GET to give and we can do so much ifwe band together,” Leona Fleck, an Envision Financial branch manager, said in a statement.
|“A few years ago, Envision enabled me to work for the United Wayon loan, where I came face-to-face with the kinds of organizationsour Employee Giving Campaign supports—organizations that feed thehungry, provide services for children and run transition homes. Ithad a huge impact on me and I feel proud to be part of anorganization that encourages its employees to give back,” Flecksaid.
|A similar commitment of $35,000 has been made by employees fromEnvision's First West Credit Union partner Valley First for charitiesacross the Okanagan, Similkameen and Thompson region in theCanadian province, First West said.
|Envision and Valley First are divisions of the $6.6 billionFirst West, which said it now has 37 branches and 29 insuranceoffices throughout the Lower Mainland, Fraser Valley, Kitimat andOkanagan, Similkameen and Thompson regions in British Columbia.
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