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A Birmingham, Ala. credit union, the $320 million Legacy Community FCU, has taken the Good Samaritan label to heart this month and over a six-week period did a full-blown give-away of products and services including 2,700 gallons of discounted gas.

Stanford Federal Credit Union recently took part in Twestival 2010 demonstrating how much good can be accomplished-one tweet at a time.

At least one Rhode Island credit union, the $106 million Wave FCU of Warwick, was doing its part Wednesday by using its Web site to help its members cope with the record breaking floods that have devastated dozens of communities this week.

Credit unions that don't consider their gay, lesbian and transgendered members are missing out on a huge opportunity. So said Thomas Bowen, operations project coordinator at the $100 million Money One Federal Credit Union.

Brad Miller stepped down from his position as executive director of the Association of Corporate Credit Unions in February to take over as president/CEO of the $3.3 billion Southeast Corporate Federal Credit Union.

The campaign giving patterns of CUNA and NAFCU in February could be best described as the calm before the proverbial storm.