{"id":70428,"date":"2016-06-29T19:34:16","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T23:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=70428"},"modified":"2016-06-29T16:38:51","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T20:38:51","slug":"gpo-federal-credit-union-receives-statewide-financial-education-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=70428","title":{"rendered":"GPO Federal Credit Union receives statewide financial education award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=70429\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-70429\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-70429\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/GPO-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"GPO\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/GPO-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/GPO-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/GPO.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>GPO Federal Credit Union received the New York Credit Union Association&#8217;s prestigious Dora Maxwell Social Responsibility Community Service Award during NYCUA&#8217;s 2016 Annual Meeting and Convention, held June 16-19 in Saratoga Springs. The New Hartford-based credit union will now advance to the Credit Union National Association&#8217;s national competition.<\/p>\n<p>The Dora Maxwell Social Responsibility Community Service Award honors credit unions that strengthen local institutions and materially improve the lives of non-members through <!--more-->community outreach programs other than financial education.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, GPO FCU staff members took it upon themselves to form a team for the Utica-area Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk. In 2015, staff from the credit union approached the Utica office of the American Cancer Society about securing a top-level naming sponsorship for the walk, which had never been done in the Utica-area; only one other community in New York had ever secured a signature sponsor.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to GPO FCU&#8217;s signature sponsorship, the 20th Annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk in Utica raised more than $200,000 from 4,000 walkers, including 30 GPO FCU team members, who raised more than $2,400. Leading up to the event, the credit union&#8217;s branches hosted fundraiser bake sales, dress-down days and basket raffles, sold pink ribbons, and had a contest among their branches to &#8220;go pink&#8221; in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GPO Federal Credit Union received the New York Credit Union Association&#8217;s prestigious Dora Maxwell Social Responsibility Community Service Award during NYCUA&#8217;s 2016 Annual Meeting and Convention, held June 16-19 in Saratoga Springs. The New Hartford-based credit union will now advance to the Credit Union National Association&#8217;s national competition. The Dora Maxwell Social Responsibility Community Service [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}