
Welcome to the National Credit Union Foundation
Improving people's financial lives through credit unions.

The Side Effects Project
Networking & Learning Opportunities
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Virtual Event
The 2021 Foundation Celebration
Fundraising event spotlighting our past Wegner Award winners.
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Virtual Conference
CU FinHealth21 Conference
Learn how to improve the financial health of your most important assets- your employees and members.
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Online Education
Exploring Our Values
A free self-guided course designed to teach the fundamentals of credit unions’ cooperative structure, principles and history.
Our Impact
We exist to make our movement stronger. The Foundation invests in the advancement of credit union’s work through grants, educational programming and more.
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Since 2005, over$36M
has been granted to credit union organizations to improve people’s financial lives.
Learn more about financial well-being -
Since 1982, over2,000
emerging credit union leaders have been certified as CUDEs through the DE Program.
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Since 2005, over$9M
has been distributed in disaster relief assistance through CUAid.
Learn more about CUAid
Who is the National Credit Union Foundation?
Through the collaborative support and action of our supporters, we ignite, we inspire and we respond to the needs of the credit union movement.

Bill Cheney, President/CEO of SchoolsFirst Federal Credit UnionThe Foundation is a testament to the cooperative spirit and the credit union purpose of bringing people together to help improve the lives of so many. They work tirelessly alongside credit unions around the country to help build stronger communities, nurture future leaders and improve the financial well-being for all of us, so tomorrow may be better than we can imagine today. We proudly support the Foundation, it’s staff and programs and encourage all that are passionate about our movement to contribute what they can, because we are people helping people.
You can be a catalyst for change in the credit union movement.
A contribution to the Foundation makes a direct impact locally and has a national reach.