Delivering the keynote address at NACUSO's Business Services Collaborative, NCUA Vice Chairman Rodney Hood gave high marks to credit unions and CUSOs that are making inroads in member business lending.
Rick Small, executive director of Good Shepard Food Bank, which serves 95% of the hunger organizations in Maine, accepts a $5,000 donation from Jon Paradise, governmental & public affairs manager at the Maine Credit Union League, on behalf of Maine's credit unions to fund food deliveries by the "Food Mobile."...
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded the World Council of Credit Unions $6.7 million to support the Foundation's efforts to grow credit unions in Africa and Latin America. The Gates Foundation also awarded $2 million to the World Council's Worldwide Foundation for Credit Unions.
Members of Lafayette Federal Credit Union fighting the $332 million CU's proposed charter change to a mutual bank collected signatures on a petition requesting a special meeting at which board members could be recalled at its Cabin John branch last week.