GREENSBORO, N.C. –The Carolinas Credit Union Foundation has recently awarded a $10,000 Micro Community Grant to the Alamance County Community Services Agency in Burlington.
The funds will be used for the agency's Hope in Housing program.
The ACCSA's mission is to move people from poverty to economic self-sufficiency and improve the quality of life of people in need through the provision of informational, technical and support services. The Hope in Housing program moves people from poverty to self-sufficiency through financial counseling, education and planning.
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The ultimate goal for many of the Hope in Housing participants is to become a homeowner. Along the way many are counseled on how to develop and execute long term financial plans which may include formal education, skills training, growing savings/investments, or even starting a business.
"Hope in Housing is a perfect example of the credit union philosophy of 'people helping people,'" said CCUF Executive Director John Slack. "It is the Foundation's pleasure to support a program that helps hard-working people of modest means learn financial principles that unlock the door to self-sufficiency and success."
Micro Community Grants allow credit unions in North and South Carolina to partner with local nonprofit agencies to bring community benefit. The ACCSA grant proposal was put together with the help and cooperation of the North Piedmont Chapter of the N.C. Credit Union League.
Since it began in late 2005, the Micro Community Grant program has awarded more than $300,000 to agencies throughout the Carolinas.
"As credit unions it is in our nature to care about our communities," said Slack, "and the ACCSA's Hope in Housing program reminds us that communities really are all about people."
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