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        "summary": "Serving immigrant communities matter, and not just in terms of dollars and cents.",
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        "prettyDate": "May 28, 2014",
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        "summary": "Giving back to the community or helping someone personally during spare time makes the world a better place.",
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        "title": "Best Practices and the Big Squeeze",
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        "prettyDate": "March 16, 2014",
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        "summary": "Read how one small credit union CEO turned her cooperative around and learn other recovery best practices.",
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        "title": "Big Squeeze: Turning Lemons Into Lemonade",
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        "prettyDate": "March 05, 2014",
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        "summary": "To survive, smaller credit unions will need to adapt, learn, adjust, innovate and collaborate.",
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        "uri": "/2014/01/24/take-advantage-of-cdfi-opportunity/",
        "title": "Take Advantage of CDFI Opportunity",
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        "prettyDate": "January 24, 2014",
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        "summary": "This Opinion piece urges low-income credit unions to apply for NCUA funding and CDFI certification.",
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        "title": "Keeping It Social: Guest Opinion",
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        "prettyDate": "July 10, 2013",
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        "summary": "I spend a lot of time in strategic planning sessions, and growth is almost always the dominant focus. A majority of our nations credit unions are considered small, with less than $50 million, and the sad reality is that most in this group are having a difficult time with membership,...",
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        "uri": "/2013/04/10/ins-and-outs-of-using-low-income-designation/",
        "title": "Ins and Outs of Using Low-Income Designation",
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        "prettyDate": "April 10, 2013",
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        "summary": "If yours is one of the NCUAs newly designated low-income credit unions, congratulations.",
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        "uri": "/2013/03/12/a-lot-of-licu-designations-a-lot-of-possibilities/",
        "title": "A Lot of LICU Designations: A Lot of Possibilities",
        "byline": "Scott Butterfield",
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        "prettyDate": "March 12, 2013",
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        "summary": "You're a newly designated low-income credit union, congratulations! You now have access to tools that can be leveraged for growth and aren't available to all credit unions.",
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        "uri": "/2013/03/12/a-lot-of-licu-designations-a-lot-of-possibilities/",
        "title": "A Lot of LICU Designations: A Lot of Possibilities",
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        "summary": "You're a newly designated low-income credit union, congratulations! You now have access to tools that can be leveraged for growth and aren't available to all credit unions.",
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        "uri": "/2013/02/19/amplifying-innovation-through-collaboration/",
        "title": "Amplifying Innovation Through Collaboration",
        "byline": " Scott Butterfield ",
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        "prettyDate": "February 19, 2013",
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        "summary": "Collectively, credit union results are improving and that’s a positive sign. However, there are far too many of us who are not growing and are frankly…",
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