Ford Foundation Takes Historic, Unprecedented Action to Increase Grantmaking...
New York, NY - In response to the existential threat caused by Covid-19 to nonprofit organizations, the Ford Foundation and its Board of Trustees today announced the intent to offer for sale $1 billion...
View ArticleNew Research Reveals COVID-19 Inflicted a Heavy Toll on Mid-Size Nonprofit...
Nearly half of nonprofits surveyed reported they were forced to cut employment as charitable giving declines and demands for services increase.read more
View Article2020 Co-op Innovation Award Winners Announced
Arlington, VA ( June, 29, 2020) The cooperative development model creates opportunities for economic mobility and for financial and community resilience, including during times of crisis. Three...
View ArticleEliminating FOM would be major step toward financial inclusion
Monday’s Supreme Court decision was a win for consumers and the credit union movement, CUNA President/CEO Jim Nussle wrote in Credit Union Journal this week. And while it allows credit unions to expand...
View ArticleAffinity Plus Joins CU Realty Services Million Dollar Club Reaching Over $2M...
ST. PAUL, MINN. (July 13, 2020) – Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union is pleased to announce it has earned a spot in CU Realty Services’ Million Dollar Club, having saved its members more than $2...
View ArticleNational Cooperative Bank Originates Over $212 Million for New York Area...
New York, NY (July 13, 2020) National Cooperative Bank (NCB), a leading lender to cooperative housing and condominiums throughout the Tri-State area, originated over $212 million to 51 New York area...
View ArticleReforming Antitrust and Regulation for Big Data Platforms Will Require...
Antitrust New Antitrust Regulations Addressing “Big Tech” Monopolies Should be Based on How the U.S. Met Similar Challenges Over a Century Agoread more
View ArticleFederal Oversight Must Be Restored to the Communications Sector
Strong, Flexible Regulations on Business Data Services Are Needed To Protect Competition, Innovation, and Consumers.read more
View ArticleEmpowering nonprofits during COVID-19 and beyond
Nonprofit organizations provide a crucial societal role by filling the gap between government programs/services and the private sector. However, during challenging economic periods (such as the current...
View ArticleItaly: EIB and Italian Ministry of Justice join forces to promote social...
The European Union, through the European Investment Advisory Hub will advise the Italian Ministry of Justice on the implementation of innovative financing and procurement methodologies, aimed at...
View ArticleNTCA Announces 2021 Board Chair, Officers
Johnson has served on the NTCA board since 2014. He has served as the CEO of Farmers Telecommunications Cooperative, Alabama’s largest member-owned telecommunications provider, since 2002. He holds a...
View ArticleExpanded Daon-CU*Answers Partnership Enables Contact-free Member Experience
FAIRFAX, VA (December 3, 2020) – Daon, a global leader in biometric identity technology, and CU*Answers, the Grand Rapids, Michigan-based cooperative Credit Union Service Organization (CUSO), today...
View ArticleNominate a 2021 Credit Union Hero
We’re looking for the stories of those who have quietly made an indelible mark on their credit unions, their communities, and most important, their members," says Ann Hayes Peterson, vice president and...
View ArticleCUNA Announces New Appointments to Board of Directors
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 21, 2020 Washington, DC CONTACT: Lauren Williams CUNA Communications 202-672-3396 read more
View ArticleSage research reveals positive signs in nonprofit sector despite COVID-19...
Nonprofit finance leaders lean on technology to improve efficiencies, save money, and ultimately drive greater mission impact amidst the pandemic.read more
View ArticleProfessor will lead three-year project on how credit unions can innovate
The Filene Research Institute, a credit union think tank, named Jeffrey Robinson as a research fellow at a new center focused on innovating the credit union system.read more
View ArticleScott, Cortez Masto introduce bipartisan loan maturity bill
Sens. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) introduced a CUNA-supported bill today, the Expanding Access to Lending Options Act, that would raise federal credit union loan maturity...
View ArticleReclaiming Share: How Credit Unions Can Change the Game
For the first time, and in big numbers , credit union s’ members are leaving for B ig B anks . It’s a drastic reversal from just a few years ago when, in the shadow of the Great Recession, 44%...
View ArticleCUNA Responds to the Reintroduction of the SAFE Banking Act
Reps. Ed Perlmutter (D-CO), Steve Stivers (R-OH), Nydia Velázquez (D-NY) and Warren Davidson (R-OH) today reintroduced the Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act, which would provide...
View ArticleCandid Announces Three New Appointments to Board of Trustees
New York, NY—March 31, 2021. Candid announced the appointment this month of Kami Dar, CEO of Uniti Networks; Kenneth Jones, vice president and CFO of the MacArthur Foundation; and Donna Murray-Brown,...
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