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Our Credit Union Vol. 4 | No. 12 (48) | Year 2017 December 2017 MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE POLISH & SLAVIC FEDERAL CREDIT UNION Dear Members, demonstrate that they are professionals in and may your dreams come true in the New their fields every day at work as well as being Year of 2018. We will soon celebrate open-hearted people. Christmas and ring in On behalf of the Board of Directors and Sincerely, the New Year. I am the Supervisory Board of the Polish & Slavic sure that for most of Federal Credit Union, I would like to wish Krzysztof Matyszczyk you, as well as for our you a joyful, healthy and peaceful Christmas Chairman of the PSFCU Board of Directors institution, it was a year of much success and many achieve - Christmas Charity Drive ments. However, during the holiday season we cannot forget about people who have experienced many worries and problems in life, especially health problems. For the fourth year now, the Polish & Sla - vic Federal Credit Union and New York’s Children’s Smile Foundation are organizing a charity drive for children’s hospices in Poland and to help underprivileged children in the United States. We are honored that one of the hospices has once again been designated by Poland’s First Lady, Ms. Agata Kornhauser-Duda. Over the previous three years we were successful in raising and donating nearly $400,000 thanks to your generosity. I believe this year’s campaign will yield equally impressive results. I would also like to take this opportunity to mention the wonderful initiative of our © Agencja Gazeta Credit Union employees and volunteers, who every year for eleven years now have Young patients of the Silesian Hospice for Children Foundation in Tychy been collecting Christmas presents for We sincerely invite you to participate in - Children’s Smile Foundation (PSFCU children from selected orphanages in Poland. the annual Children’s Holiday Smile charity account no. 1337946): all funds will be allo - This year in the campaign we donated drive. The purpose of this event organized cated to the costs of treatment for children Christmas gifts purchased by our Credit together with the Children’s Smile Foun - from Polish families in the United States; Union employees and volunteers to 47 dation is to raise funds to help under pri - - Silesian Hospice for Children Founda - Polish children at a children’s home in Lviv, vileged children in the United States and tion in Tychy (PSFCU account no. 1337958): Ukraine. Personally, I am very grateful to our three selected hospices for children located the first palliative care complex in Silesia employees and volunteers, who thus in Poland. exclusively for children. The facility is The Children’s Smile Foundation has recommended by Poland’s First Lady, Ms. opened four separate accounts at PSFCU for Agata Kornhauser-Duda; PSFCU In Numbers your donations: ...continued on page 2 information as of October 31, 2017 Assets Merry Christmas $1,851,120,427 We wish you a peaceful and joyful Loans CHRISTMAS $1,048,929,392 and financial success in the New Year! Net Worth $178,823,390 Number of Members 92 ,633 Our Credit Union | December 2017 | 1.855.PSFCU.4U (1.855.773.2848) | www.psfcu.com ...Christmas Charity Drive - The Little Prince Hospice for Children after Thanksgiving and will last through Rzeszow, the “Help Them” Hospice in in Lublin (PSFCU account no. 1337952): the the end of the year. Bialystok, the “Alma Spei” Children’s only in-home and inpatient children’s This is the fourth edition of the joint Hospice in Krakow, The “Gaius” Hospice in hospice in southeast Poland. fundraiser of the Polish & Slavic Federal Lodz, The Rev. Jozef Tischner Memorial - The Warsaw Children’s Hospice Foun - Credit Union and New York’s Children’s Hospice in Krakow and the Blessed Rev. dation (PSFCU account no. 1337961): an in- Smile Foundation. “It has become a tradition Michal Sopocko Hospice in Vilnius. And it home palliative care institution for incurably for our Credit Union members and is important to note that the PSFCU does ill children in Warsaw and the environs. employees to raise money for sick children not charge any fees for the fundraiser, so that To make a donation, please complete the in the United States and Poland in the time 100% of the funds collected will go into the coupon available at PSFCU branches or before Christmas. In three years we have accounts indicated. online at www.psfcu.com and leave it with been successful in raising almost $400,000,” Uśmie y ch zn Dz ec ie t c a teller at any branch of our Credit Union. said PSFCU Chief Executive Officer Bogdan ią k a w Ś 2 Donations may also be made via funds Chmielewski. 0 7 1 1 7 0 transfer between accounts using Online In that time, the following facilities have 2 C Banking or the PSFCU Mobile Banking received support under the Child’s Christmas h le i i ld m re y S application. The campaign began the Friday Smile campaign: the Children’s Hospice in n’s Holida Our Credit Union on Polish Independence Day Hackensack, New Jersey, including the raising of white and red flag of Poland. During the observance, leading represen - tatives of the Polish community received special awards from the county govern - ment. “Over 60,000 Americans of Polish descent live in Bergen County. Poles are true leaders in the fields of education, business and law enforcement”, said Bergen County Execu tive James J. Tedesco III. A similar ceremony celebrating the Polish Heritage Month was held in October at the Queens Borough Hall in New York. It was attended by the Borough of Queens President Melinda Katz and Consul General of the Republic of Poland in New York, Maciej Golubiewski. Ceremony of the Independence Day of Poland at the residence of the Republic of Poland Ambasador in Washington, DC November 11th is traditionally celebrated tic elite. In his letter of thanks to the PSFCU as Poland’s Independence Day. Representa - Board of Directors, Ambassador Wilczek tives of the Polish & Slavic Federal Credit wrote that thanks to the support of the Union were present at every important PSFCU “the observance, whose guest of observance of the 99th anniversary of honor was Polish Senator Anna Maria Poland’s reemergence on the world map. Anders, was very impressive and contri - As always, the Polish community com - buted to the strengthening of transatlantic me morated the event on this year’s 99th ties and the promotion of Poland in the anniversary of Poland’s regaining of inde - United States”. pendence on November 11, 1918. Events The gala banquet held on Independence held by local governments and Polish Day by Polish Consul General Piotr Janicki diplomatic posts were attended by great in Chicago was attended by the PSFCU numbers of Polish people. And of course Midwest Branch Managers: Norridge - the representatives of the Polish & Slavic Katarzyna Kwaterkiewicz, Mt. Prospect - Federal Credit Union were among them. Anna Mscisz, and Bridgeview - Jolanta Our Credit Union was a sponsor of the Wisnicki. reception hosted by Poland’s Ambassador On November 18th, Poland’s Indepen - Prof. Piotr Wilczek in Washington, DC. It dence Day was celebrated by the govern - was attended by several hundred guests ment of Bergen County, New Jersey. As PSFCU representatives with Consul General from the US Capital’s political and diploma - every year, a special ceremony was held in in Chicago Piotr Janicki 2 Our Credit Union | December 2017 | 1.855.PSFCU.4U (1.855.773.2848) | www.psfcu.com Scholarship Programs for the Young and Gifted official transcript listing their grade point de Janeiro. average (GPA) for grades 9 through 11 and Since its inception in 2001, we have a transcript of their SAT/PSAT/ACT test allocated more than $4,000,000 to the from their high school), and get the signa - Scholarship Program, rewarding nearly tures of their parents or legal guardians. 3,500 young and talented members of our Applications must be submitted at a Credit Union. With this support, our young PSFCU branch in order to verify member - members can study at prestigious schools ship, no later than January 5, 2018. After such as Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Stanford, verification, all eligible applications will be Princeton, New York University or the sent to the NYCUA. Winners will be Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The announced in May 2018. For more infor - Credit Union’s Scholarship Program is just mation, please send an e-mail to: scho lar - one example of how we help Polish immi - [email protected] or contact Ms. Ewa grants achieve their “American dreams”. This year marks the 18th time that the Ko tulska, Marketing Specialist at 973-808- Polish & Slavic Federal Credit Union Scho - 3240, ext. 6133. Former winners of the PSFCU Scholarship larship Program is being launched. It is an Later in the year we will notify members Program on the benefits of participation in opportunity for financial support for young of recruitment for the Scholarship Program the program: and ambitious members of our Credit Union for College Students. As in 2017, the PSFCU who are pursuing a higher education in the and the Chancellery of the President of “I highly recommend the PSCFU’s United States. Poland, Mr. Andrzej Duda, will organize a Presidential scholarship program because it As in previous years, the PSFCU Scho - Presiden tial scholarship comprizins a study is an invaluable opportunity to discover larship Program consists of several compo - tour of Poland for eligible students who are Poland and obtain contacts in business, nents. High school seniors can apply for members of our Credit Union.