Five life lessons from Edward Filene, father of the credit union movement
The other day, I was reading through the website of one of Zogo’s partners when a particular quote caught my eye. It read something like this:
“As Edward A. Filene, father of the credit union movement, once said, “A credit union is an educational institution.”
Well put, I thought — but I had no idea who this “father of the credit union movement” was.
One Google search later, I was deeply entrenched in the life story of Edward Filene, the twentieth century businessman and philanthropist who helped launch credit unions across America.
The fact that thousands of financial institutions across the country can trace their existence back to one man’s influence is pretty interesting already. But when I found out this guy was advocating for equal wages and progressive banking before the Model T hit the highway? I knew this was a blog post in the making.
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