Fort Knox Federal Credit Union is honored to partner with USA Cares and support their mission to assist military families in crisis. In 2018 alone, the credit union and its members donated $70,300 to USA Cares. These funds have directly helped military families pay their utility bills, buy food and fuel, as well as assist with housing costs.
“Fort Knox Federal Credit Union has established themselves as one of our strongest partners,” said Hank Patton, President/CEO of USA Cares. “Fort Knox Federal continues to demonstrate a valuable commitment to our mission of supporting military families when they need it most and we cannot thank them enough.”
USA Cares originally started as a grassroots partnership of the Fort Knox Chapter of the Association of the United States Army, Kroger Food Stores – Mid-South Division, and WAVE-3 TV, the NBC affiliate in Louisville. Fort Knox Federal was one of the earliest supporters of USA Cares and continues to give towards their mission along with many of the credit union’s generous members.
“As the largest member-owned financial institution in Kentucky, we’re proud to partner with USA Cares to support veterans and their families,” said Ray Springsteen, Fort Knox Federal President and CEO. “Fort Knox Federal is dedicated to helping hard-working Kentucky families improve their financial lives and supporting community organizations like USA Cares is part of our ‘people helping people’ philosophy.”
A portion of the donations to the organization were dues paid by Fort Knox Federal for new credit union members who joined as part of the USA Cares Patriot Club field of membership. In 2014, USA Cares launched the Patriot Club which is open to anyone wishing to support the organization’s mission and donate to supporting military families. All dues and gifts to the Patriot Club go directly to sustain USA Cares’ support of military families.
For more information about USA Cares or Fort Knox Federal, please log on to www.usacares.org or www.