2nd Annual Verity Community Service Day brings together dynamic employees to serve others

Recently Verity Credit Union celebrated their second Annual Community Service Day. On this day Verity closed all their branches to allow the whole organization to participate. Community involvement is at the heart of this richly people centric organization. In the first nine months of 2016 Verity logged 1,832 volunteer hours at 84+ organizations.

“Things you will be doing today will free up those that have a mission to fill for their organization,” said Vivian Valencia, Director of Community Relations at Verity Credit Union. “Today will be a fun-flexible-fulfillment kind of day.”

Mary’s Place was one of the organizations benefiting from Verity Community Service Day, where some of the Verity team played four-square, yes, four-square with the children! Play is healing, and Verity knows how to play and work equally as hard.

“As an organization, we pass out hundreds of thousands of diapers and hygiene items every year. But we did so without an organized storage space or tracking system. Verity came in and helped us create an infrastructure and storage system that will allow us to track and supply even more hygiene items to our residents. In addition, Verity team members also worked one on one with our parents on housing and job applications, while other Verity team members played with our parents' kiddos. Thereby giving our guests the time, energy, and support, to work towards stability; we love Verity,” said Michael Rea, Corporate Engagement Coordinator.

City Fruit was another that benefited from the great energy of the Verity team. “The people were enthusiastic! What set them apart was they are really behind what Verity Credit Union stands for, they love it and as a team they have a unique sense of community that drives them,” said Natalie Place, City Fruit Senior Program and Education Manager. This was the first year City Fruit used nets to organically protect the trees, as part of the Save Seattle’s Apples campaign. “Verity worked as a team to take down the netting, and with their help we produced 300 pounds of fruit that was delivered to the University District Food Bank,” said Place.

Other organizations that benefitted were the Phinney Neighborhood Association and the associated Greenwood Senior Center.

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