Why Your Credit Union Should Participate in ‘Credit Unions for Kids’
Credit unions are the ultimate arbiters of the welfare of families across the United States, whether providing financial stability to a family buying their first home or getting a working mom the vehicle she needs to drive to work and take her kids to school – or their Children’s Miracle Network Hospital oncologist.
Credit Unions for Kids is a nonprofit collaboration of credit unions, chapters, leagues/associations, and business partners from across the country. Together, credit unions are engaged in fundraising activities to benefit 170 Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. CU4Kids has been adopted as our movement’s charity of choice. Since 1996, hundreds of credit unions through CU4Kids have raised $185 million, 100% of which goes to support the life-saving work at CMN Hospitals. That goes a long way toward treating more than 2,000 children each day for cancer, 925 babies every day in the newborn intensive care unit and 39 diabetic kids each hour.
Nancy Croix-Stroud, First Class American CU
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In addition to providing more than $3 billion in charitable care, CMN Hospitals support live-saving, cutting-edge research and develop innovative technology to ease innocent children’s pain and lengthen lives with dignity and improving quality. That’s a big number, but there are many smaller numbers that contribute to these children’s and families’ well-being.
$12 buys a package of preemie diapers
$90 for a pediatric blood pressure cuff and monitor
$3,000 – $7,000 provides one chemotherapy session
$5,000 allows CMN to purchase a heart monitor
CMN ensures each dollar goes toward helping local families in your community. Every dollar is sent back to your local CMN Hospital, so your credit union is assured you continue serving your community and members. We understand the value of local and being able to see the good credit unions are doing in their local communities.
But there’s also a bigger picture. Credit unions are our 5th largest corporate donors through CU4Kids. That’s huge! Credit unions should be recognized by the American consumers who benefit directly or indirectly from your contributions, by legislators who will see the value of credit unions’ cooperative efforts to serve their communities in their founding philosophy of people helping people, and by our CMN Hospitals and patients and their families. We can’t thank you enough for the work you do on behalf of our family of hospitals. Your efforts through CU4Kids contribute to credit unions’ reputation for supporting the local community, and that can prove priceless.
Through your daily work, credit unions make hundreds of seemingly small decisions that can change a person’s entire life. You don’t think much of it, because you may make a mortgage loan or two every day, but for that family, it’s a key step toward stability and financial security they may not have otherwise. We’re doing the same thing at CMN hospitals.
-Written by Sarah Snell Cooke