As we glance again on a memorable 2022 and make plans for the yr forward, we at Elevations Credit score Union are grateful to our valued members, neighbors and neighborhood for serving to us accomplish a lot.

This yr, our buddies helped help:

Buffalo Bike Traditional, the biggest scholarship fundraiser within the state

Now 20 years sturdy, the Elevations Credit score Union Buffalo Bike Traditional stays the biggest scholarship fundraising occasion within the state of Colorado. Members have been in a position to select from any of 9 totally different bike course choices of various issue and size. The trip helps high-merit, high-need college students from Colorado who plan to attend the College of Colorado.

Lafayette and Fort Collins Fourth of July celebrations

With Elevations Credit score Union branches closed on July 2, staff confirmed up in pressure to help the Lafayette and Fort Collins Independence Day celebrations. Practically 50 staff rallied to assist arrange and clear up, greet visitors, and even run actions for teenagers in Fort Collins. Elevations’ involvement with the Fort Collins celebration was one among our most complete sponsorships ever. In Lafayette Elevations proved fashionable by handing out numerous Otter Pops and internet hosting a household exercise for attendees to make patriotic bracelets. We have been proud to be such a big a part of celebrating our nice nation’s independence.

Tour de Fats in Fort Collins

Coloradans love their beer, and New Belgium Brewing in Fort Collins is legendary for making a number of the greatest brews within the nation. New Belgium, nevertheless, is thought for way more, serving to help space nonprofits every September with the ever-popular Tour de Fats. This yr, Elevations Credit score Union was honored to group up with New Belgium and supply a household enjoyable zone and shade zone on the pageant.

Volunteer break day in our neighborhood

At Elevations, we’re proud to be a locally-funded, community-grounded credit score union with a ardour for serving to others. We offer every of our full time, salaried staff with 16 hours of Volunteer Time Off annually. This yr, as of Dec. 7, we’ve logged 1,454 hours serving to our neighbors.

Workers volunteered for river cleanups, the place we teamed up with the nonprofit Shield Our Rivers alongside the Poudre River, St. Vrain Creek and Boulder Creek. A complete of 114 volunteers donated 228 hours and eliminated greater than a half ton of trash and one other 65 kilos of recyclable materials.

Elevations staff additionally adopted the Betasso Protect Canyon Loop Path in Boulder simply off Canyon and Sugarloaf Street. As a part of the Undertake-A-Path program, we saved the path clear and helped determine any upkeep points.

Elevations additionally collaborated with neighborhood companions and Elevations Basis grantees, created a listing of 14 volunteer alternatives throughout Fort Collins, Loveland, Lafayette, Longmont, and Boulder to help occasions main as much as Earth Day. Workers racked up 800 volunteer hours this yr for Earth Day alone.

Denver Enterprise Journal DE&I award

The Denver Enterprise Journal acknowledged Elevations Credit score Union at its first Range, Fairness & Inclusion Awards. Elevations was highlighted for:

• Our quite a few instructional alternatives and sources for workers 
• The creation and improvement of our Banking Unidos program 
• Our partnership with Gary Neighborhood Ventures to offer down cost help for Black households 
• The initiation of a number of worker useful resource teams comparable to Out at Elevations 
• Lodging made to our web site to help members with particular visible and mobility wants 

Supporting our Hispanic neighborhood

Elevations Credit score Union is proud to host monetary schooling seminars in Spanish annually and sponsor necessary occasions throughout the Entrance Vary that spotlight Hispanic and Latinx tradition.

On Sept. 24, Elevations sponsored the Fiesta and Meals Vehicles occasion in Longmont, hosted by the Latino Chamber of Commerce of Boulder County. The occasion celebrated the varied cultures of the Hispanic and Latinx neighborhood in Boulder County with musical and Latin leisure in addition to a one-of-a-kind foodie expertise.

Elevations Credit score Union was the title sponsor for Longmont’s Dia de los Muertos celebration in October. We supported the Household Fiesta portion of the occasion, providing instructional alternatives, facilitating arts and crafts, and connecting with the Longmont neighborhood.

Assets to assist victims of the Marshall Fireplace

The devastating Marshall Fireplace broke out on Dec. 30, 2021. Elevations Credit score Union spearheaded a fundraising marketing campaign to help these affected by making an preliminary $100,000 donation to Elevations Basis whereas asking the neighborhood to match. And match they did. Our wonderful group of members, their households and buddies rallied to lift greater than $1.2 million to help victims of the hearth.

As well as, Elevations Credit score Union hosted two city corridor occasions centered on answering questions for victims of the hearth. Topics addressed on the city halls included the right way to cope with mortgages, perception working with their insurance coverage firms, the right way to handle property assessments and extra.

The credit score union additionally sponsored a donation marketing campaign to assist Useful resource Central replenish its instrument library because it supplied free instrument utilization to these affected by the hearth. By the top of the marketing campaign greater than 50 items had been donated together with full units of energy instruments, gardening instruments and different helpful gear.

Internet hosting the Way forward for Work panel dialogue

Elevations hosted the panel dialogue, The Way forward for Work: The best way to Preserve Efficiency Excellence in a Dynamic Atmosphere on Aug. 11. This occasion offered a possibility for Colorado enterprise leaders to listen to firsthand from the state’s Workplace of the Way forward for Work and representatives from Malcolm Baldrige Nationwide High quality Award® recipients. The occasion was moderated by Director of the Colorado Workplace of the Way forward for Work, Katherine Keegan, whereas the panel included Director of Efficiency Excellence, Donor Alliance, Grace Harcek; Metropolis Supervisor for the Metropolis of Fort Collins, Kelly DiMartino; and Chief Individuals Officer for Elevations Credit score Union, Tammy Teitscheid.

Belatedly celebrating a second Malcolm Baldrige award

After incomes the coveted Malcolm Baldrige Nationwide High quality Award® for the second time in 2020 (the primary was in 2014), the celebration was postponed because of the Covid-19 pandemic. On Aug. 6 we have been lastly capable of rejoice the milestone collectively as greater than 370 staff, visitors and board members gathered for the occasion.

Supporting and taking part in Bike to Work day

On June 22, Elevations staff hosted Bike to Work (or Wherever) Day stations in Fort Collins, Boulder, and Louisville as a part of the “Shifting Gears” theme. The day helped encourage Coloradans to rethink how they get round city.

Recognition in 2022

Elevations’ dedication to high quality merchandise and wonderful customer support seems to have resonated with our members. Listed below are a number of the “Greatest Of” awards earned by the credit score union up to now in 2022:

Worker Useful resource Teams at Elevations

Worker useful resource teams give Elevations Credit score Union staff a possibility to attach with coworkers, members and the neighborhood. For example, the Out at Elevations group represented us at a number of Pleasure occasions in our communities this yr together with Longmont Pleasure (June 11), Boulder Pleasure (June 12), and for the primary time, PrideFest (June 25-26).

The Psychological Well being group stays dedicated to bringing the dialog round psychological well being to Elevations. The purpose is to coach and inform whereas working to scale back the stigma that follows individuals with psychological sickness.

The Girls Join group was additionally fashioned this summer time, geared towards enhancing the engagement and confidence degree of girls at Elevations whereas offering a discussion board to share struggles and methods.

Opening a brand new Lakewood mortgage workplace

Elevations Credit score Union opened its latest location — a mortgage mortgage manufacturing workplace in Lakewood— on Could 5. The workplace is positioned at 143 Union Blvd., Unit 220, in Lakewood. It’s on the southwest facet of Sixth Ave. and Union, throughout from St. Anthony Hospital. Whereas not a full-service department, it’s out there by appointment solely (800.460.2886) and presents all our mortgage mortgage providers.