Wisconsin CU League News Release - 02/03/11
Steelers no match for the Pack: WI Credit Union Foundation expects
to win Super Bowl wager
Pewaukee, Wis - What does a basket of
Pennsylvania-themed goodies have to do with the Super Bowl?
It’s the prize to be delivered to the Wisconsin Credit Union
Foundation Sunday as a result of a friendly wager with the Pennsylvania Credit Union Foundation.
Both organizations are the charitable arm of the not-for-profit,
member-owned financial institutions in their respective states. And both
are convinced their team’s coming out on top.
“We’ve seen the Steelers in action. So when the folks in
Pennsylvania suggested we put a little
skin in the game, we said, ‘done deal,’” said
Wisconsin Credit Union Foundation Chair Carol Adler, of Marshfield
Medical Center Credit Union. “You have to have a little fun with
these things. And by that I mean have fun cashing in when we
win!”
“Last time I looked steel was stronger than cheese,” said
Pennsylvania Credit Union Foundation Chair Diana Roberts.
“Likewise, the Steelers will surely prove to be the stronger team
on Super Bowl Sunday.”
The Wisconsin Credit Union Foundation is betting a basket of beer,
cheese and Harley gear that their beloved Packers will best the
Steelers. But regardless of the game’s outcome, no one’s a
loser: both state foundations have pledged to use their basket of
state-themed goodies in an auction to raise funds for foundation
programs. For example, the Wisconsin Credit Union Foundation provides
free to all public high schools a magazine and online resources that
help teens achieve state teaching standards for sound money management.
Among its programs, the Pennsylvania Credit Union Foundation supports
financial education projects, aid to small credit unions and disaster
relief.
Adler says that all credit unions – and there are more than 7,500
of them nationwide with 90 million members – have something special in common with the Packers:
they’re all community-owned not-for-profits.
“The Pack is the only team in the NFL jointly owned by the fans.
Similarly, credit unions are financial institutions whose depositors are
the owners,” Adler notes. “Wisconsin people have consistently won with both
– with the Packers by preserving a beloved team that has remained
in their backyard and with credit unions by receiving $203 million a
year in direct financial benefits by conducting their banking with a
financial institution they own.”
Read Wisconsin credit unions’ winning statistics for the 2010
season at www.theleague.coop/scorecard
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