TopLine Financial and Credit Union took part in the eighth nationwide Kindness Day

Minnesota credit unions joined forces to spread kindness across the state on Monday, October 14th.

MAPLE GROVE, Minn., Oct. 22, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — TopLine Financial Credit Union, a Twin Cities-based member-owned financial services cooperative, was one of 60 credit unions and partner organizations in Minnesota to took part in an organized day called CU Forward Day. A statewide initiative involving over 3,000+ employees, members and credit union partners united to do one simple thing – spread kindness and encourage others to do the same.

TopLine has been participating in this joint credit union event since 2016, called CU Day Ahead, which is coordinated by the Minnesota Credit Union Network (MnCUN), the state trade association for Minnesota credit unions. Day Ahead CU demonstrates that credit unions are going above and beyond, collaborating and contributing to their communities.

This year’s TopLine theme was “By connecting, we are all more successful!More than 143 TopLine members have volunteered more than 554 hours and provided assistance to nearly 2,800 Minnesotans at local partner nonprofit organizations including ACBC Food Shelf, Advent Lutheran Church, Avenues for Youth, Beyond the Yellow Ribbon, CROSS Services, Family Alternatives, Karen Organization of Minnesota . , Keystone Community Services, Maple Grove Hospital, MORE, NACE Food Shelf and Cupboard, Twin Cities Union Gospel Mission, YMCA Youth and Family Services and several local park cleanups.

Volunteers have made a positive impact in the communities TopLine serves by providing fall cleanup at Advent Lutheran Church and Avenue for Youth, delivering meals to Keystone Meals on Wheels participants, serving lunch to residents of Union Gospel Mission’s local ministry, and providing assistance. to several local food shelves, helping to improve a park, packing personal care kits and birthday bags for YMCA Youth & Family Services, creating inspiring signage for Maple Grove Hospital, packing and delivering 1,000 personal care and dental kits, creating 100 blankets for ties and knitted over 100 scarves for local foster children at Family Alternatives. TopLine also organized a bike ride to benefit Express Bike Shop, a nonprofit youth employment program, and collected 157 bikes for donation.

“At TopLine, we believe that supporting our communities goes beyond financial services, and CU Forward Day is a great way to demonstrate our commitment to social responsibility efforts. By volunteering on this day, as we do throughout the year, and sharing our time and talents, we strengthen connections in our communities and contribute to the well-being of all we serve. Together we make a real difference in lives,” says Mick Olson, President and CEO of TopLine. “CU Forward Day showcases the credit union’s philosophy. about “people helping people” and the true power of our Minnesota credit unions and partners working together to make a positive impact throughout the state.”

TopLine Financial Credit Union, a credit union based in the Twin Cities, is Minnesota’s ninth credit union.^th largest credit union with more than $1.1 billion in assets and serving more than 70,000 members. Founded in 1935, the nonprofit financial cooperative offers a full range of financial services through its ten branches – Bloomington, Brooklyn Park, Champlin, Circle Pines, Coon Rapids, Forest Lake, Maple Grove, Plymouth, St. Francis. and in St. Paul’s Park in Como, as well as by telephone and online at www.TopLinecu.com or www.ahcu.coop. Membership is available to anyone who lives, works, worships, attends school or volunteers in Anoka, Benton, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Hennepin, Isanti, Kanabec, Mille Lacs, Pine, Ramsey, Scott, Sherburne, Washington and Wright counties. Minnesota. and their immediate families, as well as employees and retirees of Anoka Hennepin School District No. 11, Anoka Technical College, Federal Premium Ammunition, Hoffman Enclosures, Inc., GRACO, Inc. and their subsidiaries. Visit us on Facebook or Instagram. To learn more about the credit union foundation, visit www.TopLinecu.com/Foundation.

CONTACT:

Vicki Roscoe Erickson

Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer

Financial and credit union TopLine

(email protected) | 763.391.0872

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