Building Community - It's what we are all about

Angela Andlar, manager of UCU's
Sudbury branch presents a
donation to Mary Stefura
of the Sudbury Ukrainian
Seniors' Home

You may have noticed in the last couple of weeks we have been posting a lot of photos on our Facebook page with staff and board members presenting donations to various groups in our community.

Lesya Babiy, manager of UCU's
Mississauga Branch presents a
donation to Dorota Cziupel
of Carassauga's Ukraine Pavilion

Providing financial support to community groups is a big part of who we are and is very important to Ukrainian Credit Union Limited. Credit unions have historically been one of the largest supporters of the community. Why? Well, as financial institutions we obviously have some money. But more importantly, as community members support us, so we in turn are able to support the community. It is very encouraging to us when in the course of making donations we meet tons of people who really get this simple concept - the more business we as a community do with the credit unions, the more credit unions such as Ukrainian Credit Union Limited are able to support the community.

Mark Marzyk of Lemon Bucket Orkestra
accepts a sponsorship cheque from
UCU Marketing Director Yuriy Diakunchak

Over the course of the year we donate money, resources and volunteer hours to hundreds of different groups and projects from schools and dance groups, to churches and hospitals, to sports groups and service clubs, and much much more. Check out our annual reports to see all of the groups that we support.

Taras Jackiw (right) presents
a donation to Rev. Walnyckyj
of Burlington's Holy
Protection  Church

But it doesn't just stop there. We also support the community with various other means such as our scholarship program. You can read about it in this article published by New Pathway newspaper UCU 2013 Scholarship Awards Gala. And you can see a bunch of photos from the event on our FB page. We also support younger students through our Matura Video contest which we jointly operate with Western Union. You can see a bunch of photos about that event on our FB page as well in the Matura Ball 2013 album. You can see some of the videos submitted to this contest over the years on our YouTube channel.

UCU Board members Jerry Pryshlak
and Greg Adamowich present a donation
to members of Ottawa's Pokrova Arts
Network. Photo courtesy of Chrystia Chudczak

For many organizations, we are the only financial institution making contributions. Speak with your local church or dance group, sadochok or Saturday school, SUM, SUMK or Plast branch, about how much they receive from the big banks in financial support. Zero? That's our guess too. So come help us close the circle, bring your business to us and help us continue providing financial support to the community organizations that are important to YOU.

To see many more recent donation presentations, visit the Donation Presentation photo album on our FB page.

Learn more about Ukrainian Credit Union Limited on our website: www.ukrainiancu.com

Michael Zienchuk, of UCU's Wealth Strategies Group visits Windsor
to present a donation to the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus.