The event included a presentation of a $225,000 donation to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) to commemorate the cumulative 2019 fundraising efforts through the Credit Union’s Kids-N-Hope Foundation. The Foundation, organized by American Heritage Credit Union in 1996, provides support for Child Life Services, specifically, Musical Therapy at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and other local hospitals within American Heritage’s Workplace Partner Program. To date, the Foundation has raised more than $1.7 million dollars through its fundraising efforts.

American Heritage was recently honored as the 2019 Training Department of the Year winner at the CUNA ELLy awards on October 20, 2019. The CUNA ELLy awards recognize and honor credit union staff that develop innovative and unique training initiatives to drive progress in the credit union movement.

American Heritage Credit Union’s Green Team hosted its Tenth Annual Fall Adopt-A-Highway event. Nearly one hundred American Heritage employees went to work to clean two miles of PA Route 13 between Academy and Knights Roads in Philadelphia as well as a two-mile road in Lansdale, PA. Local pedestrians, small business owners and drivers passing by continuously acknowledged our volunteers for their hard work and efforts in cleaning up the community.

American Heritage Credit Union (American Heritage) was recently honored with two Marketing MIC Awards from the Pennsylvania Credit Union Association (“PCUA”) under the categories of “Excellence in Digital Marketing” and “Best Branding/Corporate Identity.” The awards, which recognize a multitude of outstanding marketing achievements in the credit union industry, were presented by the PCUA during their Evoke Marketing Conference. Marketers from credit unions across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania came together on October 16 – 17, 2019 in Harrisburg, PA to learn from marketing authorities as they shared their expertise on everything from branding and market research to compliance and creating earned media.

The Kids-N-Hope Foundation’s 24th Annual Golf Classic, presented by Intech Construction and John M. Floyd & Associates, raised over $103,000 on Monday, October 14, 2019 at the PineCrest Country Club in Lansdale, PA.