Kick off initiative during International Credit Union week with celebrations, activities
Houston, Texas (October 4, 2012) – A group of credit unions from the Houston-Galveston area have come together to host week-long activities to celebrate International Credit Union week from October 15th –October 20th, 2012. The group hopes to raise awareness in the Greater Houston and Gulf Coast areas about the value credit unions offer consumers. The initiative will be promoted with one unified marketing theme and will include various free events and activities open to members and the general public.
The week’s activities will focus on a different topic every day. The daily topics:
- Monday – CU Awareness Day & the Credit Union Difference
- Tuesday – Youth Day
- Wednesday – Financial Literacy
- Thursday – Political Involvement and International Credit Union Day
- Friday – Community Involvement
- Saturday – Financial Safety & Security
Scheduled events for the week will be open to everyone in the community and are free of charge. These events/activities include:
- Credit Unions hosting BizKID$ at area YMCA locations in Baytown & Clear Lake and Mad City Workshops to high school students.
- Credit Unions hosting free “Know your credit score” webinars and offering free credit reports and consultations.
- Credit Unions hosting a Political Meet and Greet event so that credit union representatives can make politicians aware of their services and work together to improve local communities.
- Credit Unions hosting a food drive to collect non-perishable food items for the Houston and Galveston County food banks.
- Credit Unions coming together and volunteering with Bay Area Habitat for Humanity.
- Credit Unions hosting Shred it Day to allow area residents to safely shred any sensitive information at six area locations.
In addition to bringing awareness to the community and in the spirit of International Credit Union week and the cooperative spirit, participating credit unions are also assisting smaller credit unions in the area by providing needed resources.
- AMOCO FCU will be providing a new money counter to Marathon Republic FCU.
- Associated Credit Union of Texaswill be assisting Gulf Shore FCU develop an employee policy manual.
- Gulf Coast Educators FCU will be providing file cabinets to Texas City Teachers FCU.
- JSC FCU will be providing a desk to Electrical Workers 527 FCU.
- Texas Dow Employees Credit Union will be assisting Brazos Community CU develop a marketing campaign.
Additional information about this cooperative initiative can be found at CreditUnionSense.com. The group hopes to continue this awareness campaign after International Credit Union week in order to raise awareness of the credit union movement in the greater Houston and Gulf Coast areas. All credit unions are encouraged to follow the cooperative initiative on Twitter and Facebook.
About Credit Union Sense Cooperative Movement
The Houston and Gulf Coast Chapter of Credit Unions came together in the spring of 2012 to work on an a credit union awareness campaign. The vision for the initiative is that Houston and Galveston area credit unions could pool their resources to help spread the message about credit unions as an industry, not as individual credit unions. Participating credit unions joined in these efforts by providing financial support, staff/volunteers, and working to forward the message of the movement.