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LANSING, Mich.—LAFCU’s giant letters won the 2017 MAC Gold Award for Outdoor Advertising and the MAC Silver Award for Community Engagement, the first year for the category, presented by the Marketing Association of Credit Unions at its 2017 MAC conference in Austin, Texas.

NEEDHAM, Mass.– Direct Federal Credit Union recently launched DirectTank, an idea pitch contest created to help foster a culture that “produces, promotes and supports innovative ideas born from all employees of the credit union.”

FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn.– SPIRE Credit Union has been honored with four awards from the Marketing Association of Credit Unions (MAC). 

UMTER, S.C. – Toby Hayes, vice president of marketing at SAFE FCU, has been named to a national committee of credit union marketers that is addressing the issue of member loyalty.

ALEIGH, N.C.–Coastal Credit Union has announced that David Faleski has been named Coastal’s new SVP/Chief Information Officer. 

BROWNSTOWN, Mich.– To celebrate the start of summer, Advantage One Credit Union and the Brownstown Downtown Development Authority co-hosted a Summer Kickoff Celebration at the Brownstown Event Center.

DALLAS - Calyx Software®, a leading provider of comprehensive mortgage software solutions for banks, credit unions, mortgage bankers and brokers, announced  that Peg Wolschon, Senior Corporate Event Manager, has received the RISE Award for Educational Programming from Meeting Professionals International (MPI).