If you thought it was amazing that the $700 million,100,000-member Vantage Credit Union in Bridgeton, Mo., used Facebook to help amember retrieve $1,000 cash lost on vacation in New York, then getready for another social media miracle.

The $294 million Linn Area Credit Union in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is receivingrecognition from around the world for helping to reunite a littleboy and his stuffed monkey, which had been lost July 1 atBalloon Glow, a community event Linn Area CU has sponsored for 15years.

“We knew it would be a challenge to find the owner because morethan 15,000 people attended this year's Balloon Glow, but we weredetermined because we all realized that losing a cherished itemcould be devastating to a child,” said Tara Bross, a marketingspecialist at the 24,000-member Linn Area CU, which won the CUNAMarketing and Business Development Council's 2011 Diamond Award.