CU Volunteer Day of Service
While our branches were closed on the Federal holiday, Columbus Day, our entire staff continued to put in the work of serving our communities.
Our team broke up into 10 different groups to volunteer their time with our community partners at KidSmart, APA St. Louis, Foster & Adoptive Care Coalition, Missouri Veterans Endeavor, Nurses for Newborns, the Women’s Safe House, L’Arche, AmeriCorps in St. Louis, as well as Welcome Home and Coyote Hill in Columbia, MO.
For more on the initiatives of our CU Volunteer Day, including photo albums and video highlights, visit our blog.
Learn more about the partnering organizations:
APA Olivette Adoption Center
Walked the dogs, made treats, assembled cardboard cat houses, and more.
Foster & Adoptive Care Coalition
Organized donations on the floor, and sorted through clothing to tag merchandise for sale.
L'Arche St. Louis
Maintained exterior building & yard work, as well as assembled raffle baskets and more.
Missouri Veterans Endeavor
Fall landscaping projects on exterior lawn and built a cat shelter for their feral cat colony.
Nurses for Newborns
Cleaned baby equipment and toys, and organized diapers, baby food, & clothing donations.
The Women's Safe House
Sorted clothing donations, and helped with cleaning and organizing food bank.
Columbia Organizations
Our Tigers Community branches volunteered at Welcome Home and Coyote Hill.
2024 CU Give results
We partnered with Veterans Community Project (VCP) throughout the month of July to offer support and security to the Veterans in our community who are experiencing homelessness.
The Saint Louis Veterans Community Project (VCP) Village is a planned, tiny home community and Outreach Center, designed to get unhoused Veterans off the street and into permanent housing. VCP is dedicated to supporting every man and woman who took the oath for our country, regardless of military discharge status.
COLLECTION DRIVE
The donation drive collected thousands of items for the VCP Outreach Pantry.
VOLUNTEERING
Team members prepared meal boxes & hygiene kits to help VCP's walk-in guests.
MONETARY DONATIONS
We donated an additional $1,275 to VCP from our Denim for Dollars program.
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West Community is the exclusive banking partner of the SLYSA!
"We are excited to support SLYSA through this key partnership opportunity. With both organizations being not-for-profit, we certainly share the same values in our commitment to our communities, making this a great fit."
Jason Peach, President and CEO of West Community Credit Union
The St. Louis Youth Soccer Association was founded in 1975 and incorporated as a non profit organization in 1976. SLYSA operates competitive soccer leagues for boys and girls, ages 6 to 19, regardless of race, color, or creed. The major objective of the organization is to develop, promote, and provide top level competition for youth soccer in the greater St. Louis area.
Find us in the Community
Volunteering in the Community
Part of our credit union’s Vision is to Help our Communities Thrive. One key way we accomplish this is by asking every employee to participate in volunteer opportunities that we schedule throughout the year.
Denim for Dollars
With our Denim for Dollars program, West Community employees raise money for local charities by donating $1 to wear jeans on Fridays. Since the launch in 2016, our employees have raised and donated $42,227!
Partnering with the Community
We are committed to service and helping our communities thrive. We support our local cities, chambers and schools. And we partner with local charities that share our commitment to people and community.
Sharing our financial literacy expertise
Knowledge is Power
Throughout the year, we host numerous webinars and seminars that cover a variety of financial topics because when you succeed, we succeed.
West Community Credit Union Is Proud to Support the Following Organizations and Schools:
- Achievements Unlimited
- Annie's Hope
- BackStoppers
- Brain Injury Association of Missouri
- Brentwood School District
- Care to Learn
- Children's Miracle Network
- Community Builders Network of STL
- Connected Learning
- Fisher House STL
- Fort Zumwalt School District
- Foster & Adoptive Care Coalition
- Francis Howell School District
- Hazelwood School District
- Home Sweet Home
- Junior Achievement
- Kidsmart
- Kirkwood School District
- Maplewood/Richmond Heights School District
- Marygrove
- Memory Care Home Solutions
If your organization is interested in a partnership or donation contact us.
free Community Shred day
Protect your identity! Gather all sensitive documents you no longer need and we’ll help you dispose of them safely and securely at our free shred events.
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How shredding can protect your identity.
Even if you’re really careful about the information you put online, your printed files can still be an easy target for identity thieves and should never go directly in the trash.
To help you protect your personal information, we periodically host shred days throughout the STL area. We bring a data destruction truck to our parking lots where you can shred your outdated sensitive documents for FREE.