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The first award made available from the Michael J. Tarr Memorial Award was presented to Northwest Community College student Elise McColl whose goal is to become an Elementary school teacher. She accepted her award cheque from Twyla Schmidt of the Northern Savings CU Terrace Branch.

Mike Tarr had been CEO of Northern Savings Credit Union for 25 years and a force in the CU movement nationally. He died suddenly in June 2010.

In 2011, Tarr was posthumously inducted in to Canada’s Credit Union Hall of Fame.

RUTH MCCAMBRIDGE | The Nonprofit Quarterly

Thrivent Financial for Lutherans is an odd nonprofit in that it inhabits the 318 spot on the Fortune 500 list. It is also Minnesota’s fourth-largest privately held company based on its $7.53 billion in revenue as of the end of 2010. Continue reading →

Toronto ON: Canada’s top ten CUs. The big get bigger, the small get …?
As of second quarter 2011, there were 434 Canadian CUs and caisses populaires outside of Quebec, reporting combined assets of $145 billion, a six-month increase of 5.2% over fourth quarter of 2010. Continue reading →

Filene.Org: Some things are just meant to go together. Peanut butter and chocolate. Batman and Robin. And Filene and Finovate. Bringing credit union leaders from the industry’s think-and-do tank to the premier event for financial services innovations is a natural extension of filene.org’s mission to explore issues vital to the future of credit unions and consumer finance. Continue reading →

The Tech Boom is fueling a surge in jobs and creative recruiting

Rachael King, Bloomberg Businessweek: Michael De Frenza scans the crowd of 50 or so well-dressed professionals mingling near a bar at the W Hotel in San Francisco’s South of Market District. De Frenza, a recent transplant to the Bay Area, is here in search not of a date—but of a job. In the five weeks since De Frenza, 34, returned to the area after a two-year stint in Toronto, he has received five offers. “I’m taking my time trying to find the right fit,” he says. Continue reading →

An Interview with CUTASC CEO Brad Best

If you’re interested to find out about where CUTASC is headed, and how we’re going to get there, read on…