Left to right: Janet Cowell, Dix Park Conservancy chief executive officer; Jama Campbell, SECU Foundation executive director; Jim Hayes, SECU president/CEO Bob Brinson, SECU Foundation Board chair; Mary-Ann Baldwin, Raleigh mayor; Chris Ayers, SECU Board chair; and Orage Quarles, Dix Park Board chair. (Photo credit: SECU). Left to right: Janet Cowell, Dix Park Conservancy CEO; Jama Campbell, SECU Foundation executive director; Jim Hayes, SECU president/CEO; Bob Brinson, SECU Foundation Board chair; Mary-Ann Baldwin, Raleigh mayor; Chris Ayers, SECU Board chair and Orage Quarles, Dix Park Board chair. (Photo credit: SECU).

The Raleigh, N.C.-based State Employees' Credit Union (SECU) and the SECU Foundation have together donated $5 million to the local Dix Park Conservancy to help support the development of a 308-acre area site into an urban park just south of downtown Raleigh. It's the largest combined donation from the credit union and the Foundation in its history.

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