Thank you to all the members and community photo contributors that made our 2024 calendar so awesome! This calendar is truly a labor of love of animals. Our staff loves to help feature our furry friends each year to support our local animal shelter.

As a reminder, all of the proceeds from the calendar sales will be donated to Foothills Animal Shelter, and this year our members helped raise a toal of $6,987.82! Thank you for helping us raise the much-needed funds it takes to operate and care for the animals that find their way to the Foothills Animal Shelter.

The Why Behind the Annual Pet Calendar

Making a difference in the lives of our community and members who reside here with their furry friends is important to us. We believe that supporting Foothills Animal Shelter can have a direct impact on our community. When one of the pets at Foothills Animal Shelter finds a fur-ever home, we know that the act of bringing in an unconditional loving animal affects the human just as much as the animal! We like to ask…Who Rescued Who?

This is most certainly a collaborative effort with our members and community. We ask our vendors to donate advertising dollars that help offset the cost of printing the calendar. So when you see an ad in the calendar, know they are supporting this paws-itively good cause and allows more of the proceeds to go to the shelter.

The pet photos are an outstanding way to share the joy that comes from owning a pet and helping to raise money for a great resource within our community. SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW CLOSED. We thank everyone who has been gracious enough to submit their photos of their beloved furry friends.

Thank you for your help in supporting Foothills Animal Shelter. 

Be sure to check out our video interviews with some of the pet owners and their pets that made the 2023 calendar!

Here is a little information from The Foothills Animal Shelter website to understand why we do this every year.

About Foothills Animal Shelter

Foothills Animal Shelter is an open-admissions facility, which means we never turn away an animal. We care for more than 9,200 orphaned cats, kittens, dogs, puppies and critters every year with a compassionate team of staff and volunteers. (Unfortunately, we cannot accept wild animals; they should be taken to organizations that specialize in their care.) We are a true community resource and offer a variety of services including pet adoption, Jefferson County pet licensing, affordable spaying and neutering, vaccinations, micro chipping and lost and found pets. We are committed to our important mission and the life-saving work that we do every day of the year.

Years Past – Look how far we’ve come

For the past 11 years, Credit Union of Denver members and our community have donated a total of $157,340.67 to Foothills Animal Shelter. Our hope is to continue this tradition for years to come. Below are some of the previous calendars’ cover pets!

This fall, we set out on a mission to spread comfort and cheer to the brave little warriors at the Children's Hospital Colorado. 

Over the course of three days C∙U∙D employees volunteered their time to craft cozy, handmade no-sew blankets for the patients of Children's Hospital. 

Children’s Colorado’s Association of Volunteers recently released an article addressing the need for more blankets at Children's Hospital. 

We were honored with an ambassador visiting from Children’s Hospital. Debbie shared the incredible story from when her teenage daughter was a patient at Children’s. We were so moved learning more about the miracles that Children’s Hospital performs and to be able to play a small part in all that they do for their patients. 

At the end of the three days we donated over 100 blankets!

We hope these blankets will bring the children warmth and hope. It's about more than just blankets, it's about the love, care, and support we can provide to our community, and make a difference where it truly matters. 

This was such a rewarding experience, and we can’t recommend it enough. If you are able, please consider donating to Children’s Hospital, whether that’s no-sew blankets or however you are able.

🌟 We couldn't have done it without you! 🌟 A heartfelt thank you to all our incredible members and community for joining us and making our recent event a resounding success. 🎉✨ Your presence and enthusiasm brought so much energy and positivity to the occasion, and we are immensely grateful for your support.

We were thrilled to see each and every one of you embracing the spirit of our event and engaging with the various activities. Your active participation truly made the event come alive!

We also want to extend our deepest appreciation to our fantastic employees who contributed their expertise and time, making this event an enriching and memorable experience for all. Together, we are fostering a vibrant and inclusive community that continues to inspire and empower one another.

Stay tuned for more exciting events, workshops, and initiatives coming your way. We can't wait to continue this incredible journey together.

Once again, a sincere thank you to everyone who attended and supported our Member Appreciation Day. Your presence means the world to us, and we look forward to seeing you at our future gatherings.

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We're thrilled to announce that our recent fundraiser for Colorado Children's Hospital generated a donation of $5,554.43! A special thanks to our members and the Lakewood Community for donating.

As part of our ongoing commitment to supporting children's health and well-being, we are honored to contribute to the amazing work they do in providing specialized care and treatment for young patients.

Join us in applauding the dedicated staff, doctors, nurses, and volunteers who make a significant impact on the lives of children and their families every single day.

Together, we can make a difference and bring smiles to the faces of these brave little warriors. Thank you for your continued support! 

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Stay tuned on our website Community Page for more opportunities to pay it forward! 

We are excited to share that we have awarded a total of $10,000 in scholarships to five individuals who will be furthering their education. This year we saw an abundance of scholarship applications from students on their way to doing remarkable things.

Thank you to everyone who entered this year. We had around ninety applications, creating a tough competition and difficult decisions for our scholarship committee. 

Applications were anonymously reviewed by a group of Credit Union of Denver volunteers. Winners were selected based upon their academic achievement, community involvement, extracurricular activities, essay responses, and other eligibility requirements. Thank you to our scholarship review team for taking the time to learn about each applicant and make those tough decisions. 

Without further ado, below are this year’s scholarship winners.

Congratulations to our scholarship winners! We enjoy offering our scholarships each year with the goal of lessening the financial burden students may face and helping them to establish strong financial futures.

Best of luck to our awardees and all our scholarship applicants, as they take the next steps on their education journey.

Shred Event 2023 Summary

While this was a free event, we did collect donations on behalf of Children's Hospital Colorado. Our members lined up around the neighborhood (totaling 416 cars) and generously donated $2,120 for the hospital!

All the shredded paper was turned into paper pulp and will be upcycled into other useful items. Thank you to our Credit Union of Denver members and our employees who came out on this cold Colorado spring day! A job well done during Earth Month!

Althought his was our last big Shred Event, we are now implementing year-round access to shred services for our members!

Rather than a once-a-year Shred Event we now have locked Shred Bins in our lobbies. Members may bring in their shred anytime, for free, to place in the bins. We would ask that you please limit your weekly shred drop off to the equivalent of two plastic grocery bags full, to allow for more people to use the bins each week.

#LiveTheGreenLife

Credit Unions for Kids is the brand under which America's credit unions, including Credit Union of Denver, fundraise for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. Since Credit Unions are member-owned, not-for-profits, our main focus is our members and community. Credit unions are driven by the philosophy of "people helping people", and our support of CMN Hospitals is a great example of the ways credit unions give back and support their communities. In fact, since the creation of the CU4Kids brand in 1996, the credit union industry has raised $200 million for affiliated children's hospitals - over $13.6 million in 2019 alone! The credit union community has established a wonderful legacy at hospitals across the country, funding breakthrough research, numerous programs and services and construction of new facilities.

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