Staff from the $1.1 billion SPIRE Credit Union in Falcon Heights, Minn., pose with their Pinktober shirts. In keeping with SPIRE's core action of giving back, SPIRE employees again banded together during Breast Cancer Awareness month to raise money for the American Cancer Society. In a five-year tradition that has generated $9,000, employees across the 19 SPIRE branches purchased pink and white "Pinktober" items. In Minnesota alone, nearly 31,000 new cancer cases have been reported in 2019. The Pinktober fundraiser is just one of several charitable opportunities in which SPIRE staff and members participate throughout the year.