MED5 FCU kick-starts community mask initiative

South Dakota CEO starts ‘virtuous cycle’ with initial donation.

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A South Dakota credit union CEO has leveraged a single donation into a community effort to provide supplies for frontline workers battling the coronavirus (COVID-19).

Pam Brown-Graff was watching the local evening news April 5 when she saw a segment highlighting the need for protective medical masks to protect workers at facilities including Monument Health, a Children’s Miracle Network Hospital in Rapid City, S.D.

That evening, Brown-Graff, CEO of $79 million asset MED5 Federal Credit Union in Rapid City, pledged $2,000 on behalf of the credit union to support crafters who were making masks for the local community.

“Before we became a community charter, we were a medical credit union, so it really hit home with me,” Brown-Graff says.

 

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