St. Charles, MO 1st Financial Federal Credit Union, a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), focused on serving the community with education, job training, and sustainable housing resources, has partnered with St. Charles City-County Library Foundation.
The St. Charles City-County Library Foundation, established in 1999, has a mission, "To ensure excellent library programs, services, and facilities for all people by developing and encouraging community investment and participation, today and tomorrow."
1st Financial Federal Credit Union, through their Helping People 1st Grant program, awarded a small grant of $524.58 to St. Charles City-County Library Foundation.� The St. Charles Branch of 1st Financial Federal Credit Union also hosted a month long book drive and was able to collect over 100 books for the Foundation.
Joe Krebs, Treasurer of the Friends of the Library annual Book Fair, and proud supporter of St. Charles City-County Library Foundation, stated, "Our focus is twofold; to raise funds to support the many programs of the St. Charles City-County Library District and to promote literacy in the local community by making books available at a reasonable cost." Mr. Krebs continued his statement by saying, "We are able to do this through support of our many volunteers and local businesses such as 1st Financial Federal Credit Union. We sincerely appreciate both the time donated at the fair and their financial support."
Chuck Holmes, Branch Manager of the St. Charles stated, "St. Charles City-County Library Foundation was a remarkable organization to work with. Our employees volunteered over 40 hours to help set up for their annual book fair." Chuck Holmes continued to say, "I thoroughly enjoyed and loved being a part of this opportunity to help out the community and look forward to working with St. Charles City-County Library Foundation again the future."
About 1st Financial Federal Credit Union
Like all credit unions, 1st Financial is a member-owned, financial cooperative. 1st Financial Federal Credit Union was chartered on September 3, 1968 as District 837 Credit Union by the International Association of Machinist members employed by McDonnell Douglas. Today, with over 30,000 members and over $200 million in assets, 1st Financial is a St. Louis metro area financial institution dedicated to helping members achieve their financial dreams. For over 45 years 1st Financial has provided members with a full line of dependable financial products and services which returns profits to the members in the form of lower rates on loans and higher savings yields. The cooperative nature of credit unions enables 1st Financial to provide products and services at very reasonable rates.
1st Financial Federal Credit Union serves those who live, work, worship, attend school, or regularly conduct business in St. Louis City, St. Louis County, and St. Charles County, Missouri and a wide array of companies throughout the St. Louis metropolitan area. 1st Financial is a member-owned, not-for-profit financial organization committed to providing quality services to the membership while demonstrating safe and sound business practices. Deposits are federally insured by the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), an agency of the U.S. Government.
Not a credit union member?�If you live, work, worship, attend school, or regularly conduct business in St. Louis City, St. Louis County, and St. Charles County, Missouri, you can open an account today with 1st Financial Federal Credit Union. Visit
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