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Student Credit Union Volunteer Award

The Student Credit Union Volunteer Award is presented at our Annual Meeting to recognize a community member who has donated their time to help make the student credit union a success. The Student Credit Union has branches in all elementary schools in the Ithaca City School District and a local homeschool group. The Student Credit Union also stages a financial simulation for teens called Mad City Money.

The program relies on volunteers to help children and teens learn about saving, spending, and sharing and to prepare them for the financial challenges they will face as adults. Past recipients have included both student tellers and adults.

Volunteer of the Year Award

The Volunteer of the Year award is presented at our Annual Meeting to recognize a community member who has donated their time to help make the Credit Union’s program a success. The credit union offers many different opportunities to volunteer.

Jeff Furman Award for Responsible Business

The annual Jeff Furman Award for Social Responsibility in Business honors an Alternatives member business that has distinguished itself through business practices that demonstrate the owner’s commitment to social responsibility. Past award winners and nominees have included member businesses dedicated to paying their employees a living wage, trading in responsibly produced goods, being good stewards of the environment, fighting for social justice, or otherwise using their enterprises as both an example of and a platform for promoting social responsibility in business.

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