
Latest news
The Foundation announces the 2024 Herb Wegner Award Winners
Impact and opportunities
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Financial well-being
Understand your members, build a strategy to serve them and support your community to improve financial well-being for all.
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Education
In-person or virtual transformative training to help your credit union connect the cooperative principles to your mission and operational success.
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Resources
Research, case studies, tool kits and more to help your credit union implement and scale impactful financial well-being programs.
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.
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Since 1982, over2,000
credit union leaders have been certified as CUDEs through the DE program.
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Since 2005, over$9.5M
has been distributed in disaster relief assistance through CUAid.
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Lily Newfarmer, President/CEO of Tarrant County's Credit UnionThe Foundation’s commitment to financial well-being for all, as well as so many important and impactful initiatives that further our movement, makes supporting the Foundation an easy ask. Their ongoing focus on our industry’s fundamental core value of ‘people helping people’ is beneficial not only to my team and my members but to all credit unions and members. Their equitable approach to supporting and growing credit unions of all sizes exemplifies diversity, equity, and inclusion and is at the heart of our movement. The Foundation is a true leader in our industry, giving us a competitive edge and promoting our continued success.
You can be a catalyst for change in the credit union movement.
A contribution to the National Credit Union Foundation makes a direct impact locally and has a national reach.