Recording artist Jonathan Edwards was the keynote speaker at thecelebration marking the successful conclusion of the Maine creditunions' Campaign for Ending Hunger. The credit unions raised arecord $471,744.42 in 2012, a nearly $25,000 increase over thecampaign from a year earlier. The leveraged buying power of such acontribution will allow food pantries and hunger organizations tobuy nearly $7 million worth of food to help the state's hungry, theMaine Credit Union League said.
|“The generosity of the nearly 627,000 credit union members inMaine is extraordinary,” said League President John Murphy. “Thismarks the seventeenth consecutive year that the Campaign has raiseda record-setting total. To raise nearly a half a milliondollars this past year is especially remarkable in such achallenging economy.”
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