ALEXANDRIA, Va.-NCUA issued a Letter to Federal Credit Unions notifying them of opportunities with AmeriCorps*VISTA program as part of the agency's Access Across America initiative. The initiative is aimed at creating economic empowerment in communities where credit unions serve. AmeriCorps*VISTA provides a Cost-Share Partnership to aid credit unions and others...

PEMBROKE, N.C. - Even as next year's appropriations for the U.S. Treasury's Department's Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI) hangs in the web of legislative and political conflict in Washington, leaders of one Native American tribe credit the program for helping their community take its first steps towards financial independence....

WASHINGTON-Following a report in Credit Union Times (September 18, 2002) about a letter three North Carolina Credit Unions signed onto in opposition to the bankruptcy reform bill, State Employees Credit Union CEO Jim Blaine, one of the signers, said the "hate mail has been rolling in." According to Blaine, credit...

MANCHESTER, N.H. - If America's Credit Union Museum Executive Director Peggy Powell has her way, the entire nation will know the story of how America's credit union movement came into its own. "We have this wonderful rich history about credit unions across the country but no one place to tell...