This year marked the 18th year that the $993 million Black Hills Federal Credit Union in Rapid City, S.D., has collected school supplies for children. For this school year, the credit union said it received more than 77,000 supplies for its School Supply Drive thanks to donations from community partners, corporate sponsors, credit union staff and members. Thousands of students in more than 60 schools throughout western and central South Dakota will start their school year with the supplies they need, according to Black Hills.
During its first annual Starting School Cool FREE Backpack Giveaway held in August, the $1.6 billion Stanford Federal Credit Union in Palo, Alto, Calif., said it gave away 500 new backpacks filled with school supplies for local area kids in kindergarten through fourth grade.
In addition, backpacks were hand delivered by credit union employees to a local school in East Palo Alto. The backpacks were filled with back-to-school essentials, such as pencils, crayons, scissors, notebooks and erasers.
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In just two weeks, employees with the $135 million Landings Credit Union in Tempe, Ariz. helped raise over $1,200 from an employee incentive program to help girls and boys purchase 80 uniform bottoms and 160 polo uniform shirts. All of the donated items will go to the TIE Foundations Connecting with Kids charity to provide everyday essentials to Tempe elementary students. Landings employees donated $20 to wear jeans for one week or for an additional $5 donation, wore jeans for an additional week.
More than 77,000 school supplies were collected for students at more than 60 schools.
Landings Credit Union's employees raised money for uniforms for children in the Tempe Elementary School District.
Employees hand delivered 500 new backpacks to a local elementary school.
Ninety-four backpacks filled with school supplies were given to disadvantaged children in the community.
The $1.3 billion NuVision Federal Credit Union in Huntington Beach, Calif., said its employees have once again donated backpacks filled with school supplies for disadvantaged children in the community as they head back to school. This year, 94 backpacks were delivered to the Huntington Beach Youth Shelter and David & Margaret Youth and Family Services in La Verne, Calif. Each backpack was filled with pencils, erasers, binders, notebook paper, crayons, colored pencils, notebooks, pens, folders, a highlighter, and a pencil case.
The $1.9 billion Robins Federal Credit Union in Warner Robins, Ga., visited David Perdue Elementary School to award a $100 cash prize to Kathy Gibbs, the 2014-2015 Teacher of the Year. A teacher for 18 years, the fifth grade teacher was selected from more than 2,000 teachers in Houston County. She will go on to represent Houston County in the running for Georgia's Teacher of the Year.
Envision Financial, a division of the $7.7 billion First West Credit Union in British Columbia, donated $17,000 to Nature's Classroom, a community partnership that gives local elementary school students a chance to plant their own vegetable gardens while learning about soil and composting and becoming stewards of the environment and community. This year, six classes from five local schools took part in the 12-week program from Langley Meadows, James Kennedy, R.C. Garnett, Alex Hope and Global Montessori schools.
This summer's harvest produced 60 bunches of kale, 42 bunches of radishes, 28 heads of lettuce, 27 bunches of Swiss chard, 21 bunches of beets, 15 pounds of potatoes, 12 pounds of carrots, 10 pounds of spinach and mixed greens, two bunches of broccoli and close to a pound of beans.
The $825 million, Dallas-based Texas Trust Credit Union's $125,000 scholarship fund will go to the inaugural class of 2018 from the Tarrant County College Southeast/Arlington ISD Collegiate High School.
The scholarship fund was announced at a ribbon-cutting ceremony marking the start of the school year and celebrating the first freshman class of the new collegiate high school.
Each student in the class of 2018 who graduates with a high school diploma and an associate's degree, achieves a 2.5 grade point average or higher, and participates in a series of personal financial education workshops, will be eligible for a $1,000 scholarship from this fund.
The 125 freshman entering the Arlington Collegiate High School this year were presented with a check for $125,000 from Texas Trust Credit Union.
For the past two years, the credit union has partnered with the school through the Bank at School program.
Kim Pierce, branch manager with Robins Federal Credit Union, presents a check to Kathy Gibbs, the 2014-2015 Houston County Teacher of the Year.
The credit union raised more than $3,200 to buy school supplies for students in several districts.
During the months of July and August, members and employees of the $350 million TopLine Federal Credit Union in Maple Grove, Minn., donated nearly 1,300 school supply items to the Community Emergency Assistance Programs and Keystone Community Services during the cooperative's 11th Annual Back-to-School Supply Drive.
Last year, CEAP distributed school supplies to over 850 children in grades K-8 in northwestern Hennepin and all of Anoka counties. Keystone community services collected a record number of items, making it possible to fill over 264 brand-new backpacks for children in St. Paul.
The $211 million DEXSTA Federal Credit Union in Wilmington, Del., donated school supplies to Bayard Middle School to help the students start the year off right. For the past two years, DEXSTA has partnered with the school through the Bank at School Program, which helps bring financial literacy into schools with weekly visits by a credit union representative to discuss, with both the students and staff, financial education and the products and services the credit union offers.
The Furthering Community Unity Team powered by the $676 million Shell Federal Credit Union in Deer Park, Texas, completed their fifth annual Supplies for Students drive benefiting the Deer Park, Pasadena, La Porte, Pearland, Houston, Humble and Galena Park Independent School Districts.
Throughout the month of July, all eight Shell FCU locations collected monetary and school supply donations. Shell FCU employees purchased jeans on Thursdays, hosted bake sales and raffled items to benefit the drive. In total, the FCU Team raised over $3,200 to purchase school supplies for the designated school districts
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