During NAFCU's 2020 Virtual Congressional Caucus, NAFCU President/CEO Dan Berger outlined retail sales, auto sales, and new and existing home sales during the pandemic -- and what credit unions role is in the recovery of each of these areas. 

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During NAFCU's 2020 Virtual Congressional Caucus, NCUA Board Member Todd Harper shared three priorities for the Administration dealing with the coronavirus:

1. Health and safety of NCUA staff and contractors
2. Assessing impact of COVID-19 on members and operations
3. Assessing the financial condition of credit unions moving forward

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The Foundation and the Worldwide Foundation for Credit Unions have teamed up for a very important initiative with the timely theme of "Inspiring Hope for a Global Community." This joint effort will appropriately culminate on International Credit Union Day (October 15), providing a venue for credit unions worldwide to share their inspirational stories on how they went above and beyond the call of duty to serve members during the pandemic. The kicker here is that all these stories will be presented via videos produced by the storytellers -- and that would be you. 

We invited The Foundation's Executive Director Gigi Hyland and Worldwide Foundation for Credit Unions Executive Director Michael Reuter to explain how both Foundations are reaching out to industry organizations to post a short video (approximately 30-60 seconds). Gigi and Mike want credit unions to share how they advanced the lives of members, employees or communities during the economic uncertainty due to the coronavirus pandemic. The hope is that by sharing the impact that credit unions are making, they will also encourage others to make an impact through philanthropic giving or by texting “ICUDAY20” to 44-321.

Here's what you do: Simply record a video on your smartphone with staff, members, or both highlighting some of the ways you’ve inspired hope for your local community during the pandemic. Then post the video on any of the following social media platforms on Thursday, October 15 (ICU Day)...

• Facebook
• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• Instagram

Be sure to include the hashtag #ICUDAY and #CUDifference in your post so everybody can share how credit unions helping their local communities through this crisis and inspiring hope for our global community.

If you can shoot a TikTok -- and you know who are, you can do this. Look forward to seeing all those videos on ICU Day!

NOTE: Before we discussed this join effort between the two Foundations, we talked with Gigi on how CU Aid is assisting credit unions impacted by the forest fires on the West Coast, as well as the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico and East Coast.

If you can't assist in person, please turn to CU Aid or one of the leagues to help in any way that you can. It's as bad as it gets in some parts of the country right now. So every little bit counts.

All the way from Zimbabwe, Africa, Cent-Cent Savings & Credit Cooperative Society (SACCO) Head of Secretariat Wilson Wizalamu joined us to share their creative new platform that allows members to invest in rural agriculture and area farmers.

Here's how it works: Pivoting in the face of COVID, Wilson and his Cent-Cent team have developed a platform to have credit union members invest in rural agriculture and area farmers by re-purposing bus drivers and their buses to deliver agriculture and art products into the city as a Community Supported Ag investment.

Wilson is not only putting drivers back to work, but his SACCO is helping spur the local economy with delivered goods to city markets for purchase. A clever idea that will definitely have positive impact within their communities.

Check it out and let us know your thoughts. And a huge shout out to Currency Marketing's Michael Berger for presenting this story idea to CUbroadcast. Thank you, Michael!

Elevations Credit Union’s COO Ray Lindley joined us on the show recently to share Elevations’ branch strategy in a post-COVID world, as they just opened a new branch.

We talked about if this branch any different than the others -- being "COVID influenced." In addition, Ray discussed other business strategies Elevations has in place to restart for the rest of 2020 and going into 2021...

• Hiring
• Remote workers
• Office environment
• Contingency plans

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