Foundation announces 2018 Wegner Award winners
Four individuals to receive credit union movement’s highest national honors
MADISON, WI (October 16, 2017) — The National Credit Union Foundation (the Foundation) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 Herb Wegner Memorial Awards. Angel V. Castro, Bill Hampel, Susan Mitchell and Chuck Purvis will be recognized with Outstanding Individual Achievement awards by the Foundation.
The Herb Wegner Memorial Awards will be presented at a special fundraising event hosted by the Foundation at the Marriott Marquis on February 26, 2018, in conjunction with the Credit Union National Association (CUNA) Governmental Affairs Conference (GAC) in Washington, D.C. Registration for dinner sponsorships and tickets will be available on the Foundation website (ncuf.coop) later this year.
The Foundation’s awards gala celebrates the highest national honors in the credit union movement. Detailed profiles will be released in the next few weeks of the following 2018 Wegner Award honorees:
- Outstanding Individual Achievement: Angel V. Castro, President of Castro y Asociados;
- Outstanding Individual Achievement: Bill Hampel, former Chief Policy Officer for the Credit Union National Association;
- Outstanding Individual Achievement: Susan Mitchell, CEO of Mitchell, Stankovic & Associates; and
- Outstanding Individual Achievement: Chuck Purvis, President/CEO of Coastal Credit Union.
“It’s appropriate to announce these winners this week as credit unions will be celebrating International Credit Union Day,” said Gigi Hyland, Executive Director of the Foundation. “The four award winners truly embody and live out the credit union philosophy of ‘people helping people’ and have done tremendous work to improve people’s financial lives.”
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About National Credit Union Foundation
The National Credit Union Foundation (the Foundation) is the charitable arm of the U.S. credit union movement and works as a catalyst to improve people’s financial lives through credit unions. Through grants and programs, the Foundation is strengthening financial well-being, igniting passion, and instilling knowledge about the credit union difference, and uniting resources to help credit union people during disaster. Donations to the Foundation ultimately enable credit unions to help their members reach life-changing goals and achieve financial freedom.
About the Herb Wegner Memorial Awards:
The awards are named in honor of the late Credit Union National Association CEO Herb Wegner, whose tireless dedication, innovative ideas and deeds truly revolutionized the ways that credit unions serve their communities. The awards that bear Wegner’s name recognize his spirit of “innovative, creative, risk-taking” leadership. View past award recipients here.
