Through independent research and innovation, the Filene Research Institute explores issues vital to the future of credit unions and consumer finance.
Schools and Colleges around the country are back in session this week, with students receiving their course syllabi and reading lists that will last them for the duration of the term. Likewise, the Filene I3‘ers have a bit of assigned reading to do as well before convening at big.bright.minds in Berkely this October. Check out what the I3 team is reading:
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(Originally posted at Crash.coop)
“To be a good friend, you have to give of yourself, but not so much that you lose yourself. You need to have personality while making room for, and supporting, other people’s personalities. You need to be willing to give at least as much, if not more, than you take.”
- Peter Bregman, HBR: “Why Friends Matter at Work and in Life”
Last week, on a Tuesday, we hosted our first local Crash Meet-up.
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Scott Moriarty and Charlie White will join 55 other companies in pitching innovative ideas to an audience from around the World. Meet the full team here.
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Want to help members? Here’s one more simple way. Tax assistance programs are becoming an increasingly popular option for credit unions to offer to their members and the communities they serve. Financially beneficial services such as these are a vital part of our economic recovery.
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Want to actively engage with Filene’s consumer focused innovation efforts?
We have space for 20 individuals to attend FinovateFall 2010, participate in Ideafest, and serve on a team to further implement ideas presented on the Finovate stage.
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Volunteer credit union boards display a broad range of competence and engagement. This research aimed to identify any relationship between good governance and good financial performance. This report expands on two recent Filene governance reports: The Board’s Role in Credit Union Mergers and Recruitment and Selection Practices at Credit Union Boards.
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Hundreds of credit unions from across the nation will take part in groundbreaking research regarding the quantifiable impact of social media marketing strategies. We would like you to join them. (And, no, the irony of using our blog for this request is not lost on us.)
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The credit union system, when at its best, operates as a virtuous circle. Success, innovation, learning, and funding from any part of the system helps fuel success, innovation, learning, and funding for the rest of the system. The Filene Research Institute and National Credit Union Foundation are perfect examples of how this concept manifests itself. Our existence depends on the success of credit unions, both individually and collectively. In turn, our success helps credit unions become even better at the many things they do for consumers. Further, the healthier credit unions make their members’ financial lives, the healthier our entire economic system becomes.
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Thanks to two piloting credit unions, NorthCountry Federal Credit Union and West Community Credit Union, we’re empowering investment property owners with innovative new tools through an innovative program called CU-Homewise.
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Filene recently visited with several guests from an Australian credit union who were on a study tour through the United States. This particular credit union has a unique strategy, which tightly links environmental sustainability to their image. When asked how this successful (and peculiar) strategy came to be, our Australian guest stated that it was implemented because it comported with their CEO’s economic rationalist view of the world.
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