Your Community Investment Should Feel Like a Member Benefit

Every credit union invests in the causes its members care about — scholarships, small business grants, disaster relief, youth programs. But the process behind that investment doesn't always feel like a benefit; too often it feels like paperwork. In this session, we'll walk through how to build grant and scholarship programs around your credit union's real priorities, give members a simple and branded way to apply, and turn reporting into a tool for continuous improvement — all from one centralized system.

This session walks through what changes when your grant and scholarship programs are built around your credit union's actual priorities — and when a fast, respectful application experience becomes part of the benefit itself, not just a means to it. We'll look at what a good experience actually means to the member on the other end, including what it looks like when it goes right: a member who applies in minutes, hears back fast, and walks away seeing their credit union differently because of it.

What You'll Learn:

• How to build applications around the initiatives your credit union already prioritizes
• Why a fast, respectful application experience is itself a member benefit
• How to ask only the questions you need, without adding unnecessary work for applicants
• How to build fair, consistent scorecards so every applicant is evaluated the same way
• How to manage grants, scholarships, and awards separately while keeping one centralized system
• How to use reporting to prove impact and carry this cycle's data into the next

Webinar Details: Date: Thursday, August 27, 2026 Time: 11:30 AM CT