• Digital Enhancements for Your Small Business

    Most successful business owners tap into tech to save time, work smarter, and boost productivity. Don’t let paperwork and outdated processes hold you back. Use the following checklist to consider simple and cost-effective digital solutions to optimize your cash management and workflows.

  • Choosing a Business Structure

    Whether your business is just starting out or undergoing a change, it can be beneficial to understand the differences between various business structures. Here’s an outline to help you get started, including introductory definitions and financial considerations.

  • Intro to Business Credit

    Much like personal credit applications, most financial institutions will review an organization’s business credit during the application process for a business loan. An organization has its own credit report based on an EIN (Employer Identification Number), which is reported and scored independently from personal credit scores.

  • What’s Next for Your Organization?

    As a not-for-profit financial cooperative, we offer our business products with the promise of fewer fees, competitive rates, and convenient local service you can trust. That’s just the beginning, though. Here are a few highlights from our suite of business services, available for commercial businesses as well as nonprofits and clubs.

  • Debt Protection by TruStage™

    Debt Protection could cover or reimburse your loan payments up to the contract maximums in the event of disability or involuntary unemployment, either for the primary borrower or for those who are joint on the loan as cosigners. Life coverage could even cancel the remaining balance of your loan upon the borrower(s)’ death. When applying for an eligible loan, simply select your preferred Debt Protection coverage. . .

  • Cooperative Principles: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

    Credit unions support diversity, equity, and inclusion as a shared credit union cooperative principle and continue to have a responsibility and take a leadership role in building and serving more diverse, equitable, and inclusive communities.

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  • Cooperative Principles: Membership and Participation

    Members are the owners of the credit union and contribute to its capital. Members, not shareholders, benefit from their credit union’s profits in proportion to their relationship and use of its products and services. As voluntary, not-for-profit financial cooperatives, we offer services to people willing to accept the responsibilities and benefits of membership, without discrimination.

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  • Cooperative Principles: Cooperation Among Cooperatives

    Credit unions serve their members most effectively and strengthen the cooperative principles by working with other cooperatives through local, state, regional, national, and international structures. In other words, unity is our credit union superpower!

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  • Cooperative Principles: Autonomy and Education

    Credit unions place particular importance on educational opportunities for their volunteer directors, and financial education for their members. Also, when making business deals or raising money, credit unions never compromise their autonomy or democratic member control.

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  • Cooperative Principles: Democracy and Community

    Credit unions are democratic organizations owned and controlled by their members. While focusing on member needs, credit unions work for the sustainable development of communities, including people of modest means, through policies developed and accepted by the members.

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  • Beginner's Guide to POS and Payment Processing

    To accept online, mobile, and in-person card payments, your business will need to find solutions for payment processing and point of sale (POS). These essential technologies impact businesses both in terms of day-to-day processes and long-term scalability. When approaching POS and processing solutions, consider: Industry Compatibility, Software and Hardware Comparisons, Bundles, Processing Fees, Deposit Time, and more.

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