May 16th, 20180112Robins Financial Credit Union recently donated both money and time to the Macon Area Habitat for Humanity.
In addition to a monetary corporate donation, a team of Robins Financial Credit Union employees met at a home in Lynmore Estates for Habitat's "Women Build Day." The women worked on three habitat houses, completing project such as insulation, vinyl siding and exterior painting.
Robins Financial Credit Union has partnered with the Macon Area Habitat for Humanity since 2008, and employees have frequently donated their time to construct Habitat homes.
April 17th, 201874641In 2017, smartphone users across the world downloaded 197 billion applications.
They used those apps to help make them better friends, better shoppers, better consumers of news and better Angry Bird launchers. That's perhaps what most draws us to the ocean of apps that have been developed in the past 10 years — they promise to make us better versions of ourselves.
Well, let's quickly take a look at an area where Americans could really use some bettering: financial literacy. According to FINRA Investor Education Foundation, 56 percent of people in the U.S. had no money set aside in case of an emergency as of 2012. A Fidelity study...
March 14th, 20180100Georgia United Credit Union is inviting Georgia schools to apply for a makeover through the credit union's fifth-annual School Crashers program.
Accredit public or private elementary, middle and high schools are encouraged to apply to have community "crash" their school with an improvement project funded by Georgia United. Nominations are accepted until April 13.
Anybody can nominate a school by visiting gucu.org/schoolcrashers. Fill out a nomination form and write a short essay about why your school deserves a makeover. Photos that illustrate the area in need of improvement are encouraged. Project requests for structural, plumbing or...
March 9th, 20182118Leagues in Georgia and New Jersey and credit unions in Florida and Maine are the latest credit union stakeholders to write in support of the Senate’s bipartisan regulatory relief bill, S. 2155, according to a CUNA article.
The Senate is currently in the process of considering the bill.
Mike Mercer, president of Georgia Credit Union Affiliates, called the bill a “boon to Main Street” in a letter to Valdosta CEO.
“Provisions in this bill would ease mortgage lending and free up capital for small businesses, two essential ways to grow an economy that has suffered from both a financial crisis and the regulations put in place...
March 2nd, 20182481Delta Community Credit Union along with Kaiser Permanente will sponsor an inspirational luncheon for the Cobb Executive Women next week, according to a Cobb Business Journal article.
Shan Cooper, chief transformation officer at WestRock, will discuss her leadership journey and views on how women can empower other women at the luncheon on March 9. Registration for the event closes on March 7 at noon. Cobb Executive Women pay $25 for entry while guests pay $35.
For more information, contact Rebecca Chadwick at rchawick@cobbchamber.org or 770-859-2368....
February 15th, 20180151The Internal Revenue Service has now issued two separate alerts warning taxpayers about a scam that went from hitting a few hundred victims "to several thousand in just days."
The scam seems to have taken root after several tax practitioners' computers were breached earlier this month. The hackers allegedly gained access to client data, including bank account information. The thieves are using the stolen information to file taxes on behalf of the victims. Because they've used the victims' information, the tax return check is either mailed to the victims' houses or direct deposited into their bank accounts.
"Thieves are then using...
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