Credit union leaders and executives celebrated some of theirindustry's efforts to help students and immigrants better theirfinancial lives at the National Credit Union Foundation's 2010Wegner Awards dinner. The Foundation gives out the awards each yearin conjunction with CUNA's Government Affairs Conference.

This year's awards recognized key industry leaders Dick Heins,retired CEO of CUNA Mutual Group, and Dick Ensweiler, president ofthe Texas Credit Union League, but a lot of the evening's energycame from the recognition given to Biz Kid$ as the year'soutstanding program and the $1.8 billion HarborOne Credit Union'sMulticultural Banking Center.

Biz Kid$ is an award winning television series, underwritten bycredits unions nationwide, that offers lessons to students onpersonal finance and practical economics that parents can use athome and teachers can use in classrooms. HarborOne's MultiCulturalBanking Center, an effort the credit union launched in 2007, to atfirst help local immigrants keep their homes in the face of theongoing mortgage and foreclosure crisis that later became anoverall financial education and training effort as well.