We will be accepting food and coat donations from 11/13 - 11/29 at both our Lakewood and Tivoli lobbies. Look for bins to place your donations.

Your donations will benefit the Action Center in Lakewood.

THE ACTION CENTER NEEDS:

Clothing needs: Coats, hats, and gloves can be new or gently used and are needed for men, women, and children.
Current food needs: peanut butter, canned meat or fish, pasta, rice, beans and macaroni & cheese.

Help Us Build a Tree of Thanks

We will have tree decals located in the main Alameda branch lobby where you can write down your name and add it to our holiday tree after donating. We are excited to see the tree grow with each donation, visually showing how much our community cares!

We are happy to announce that the 2025 Credit Union of Denver Pet Calendar is on sale now!

They are just $10 each and all the proceeds go to Foothills Animal Shelter!

Thank you to all the members and community photo contributors that made our 2025 calendar so awesome! This calendar is truly a labor of love of animals. Our staff loves to help feature our furry friends each year to support our local animal shelter. Please help us raise the much-needed funds it takes to operate and care for the animals that find their way to the Foothills Animal Shelter.

We have highlighted stories, or Happy Tails, on each month in the calendar, showing how the shelter helps animals and impacts our community in a positive way.

One such story is about Yuki.

Here is what Foothills Animal Shelter had to say about him: “Yuki arrived at Foothills after being hit by a car. He needed emergency surgery to relieve his pain. The veterinary team acted swiftly to provide the surgery and start him on the road to recovery. Yuki bounced back quickly with the TLC of the Foothills care staff. With a spring in his step, Yuki’s next interaction with a car was much happier - his ride to his new home!”

The calendars are available for purchase at our branches or if you would like us to ship them to you, give us a call at 303.234.1700 or 800.279.3288 and let us know how many calendars you would like to purchase, and we can ship them for $10 per calendar (shipping included). All of the proceeds from the calendar sales will be donated to Foothills Animal Shelter.

This is a great holiday gift idea that gives back and spotlights our member’s pets and the love of an awesome community we live in!

The Why Behind the Annual Pet Calendar

Making a difference in the lives of our community and members who reside here with their furry friends is important to us. We believe that supporting Foothills Animal Shelter can have a direct impact on our community. When one of the pets at Foothills Animal Shelter finds a fur-ever home, we know that the act of bringing in an unconditional loving animal affects the human just as much as the animal! We like to ask…Who Rescued Who?

That's why we curate our Annual Pet Calendar every year alongside our community's pet pictures, with 100% of the proceeds directly benefiting Foothills Animal Shelter. The calendar is most certainly a collaborative effort with our members and community. We also ask our vendors to donate advertising dollars that help offset the cost of printing the calendar. So when you see an ad in the calendar, know they are supporting this paws-itively good cause!

The pet photos are an outstanding way to share the joy that comes from owning a pet and helping to raise money for a great resource within our community via calendar sales.

We express our gratitude to everyone who has been willing to share their photos of their beloved furry friends throughout the years. Thank you for your continued support of Foothills Animal Shelter. 

The How - Pet Calendar Submissions

Once we receive all the photos for consideration, the C·U·D Calendar Committee selects the top 25 photos and places them online for a community vote. The pet that garners the most votes wins the coveted front cover. The remaining monthly pet photos are then selected by the next 12 highest vote count on the remaining photos.

We then put as many of the other qualified photos in our “Honorable Mention” pages of the calendar; That way everyone may have an opportunity to brag to their friends and family! Please know, we try to include as many photos as possible, but photos that are submitted outside of the guidelines may not be used due to printing quality issues.

Good Luck & Remember to buy the printed calendars in the fall. They make great holiday gifts! As a reminder, all of the calendar proceeds directly benefit Foothills Animal Shelter when the calendars go on sale later this year.

The Result - A Real Loving Impact

Thank you to all the members and community photo contributors that made our 2024 calendar so awesome! This calendar is truly a labor of love of animals. Our staff loves to help feature our furry friends each year to support our local animal shelter

As a reminder, all of the proceeds from the calendar sales will be donated to Foothills Animal Shelter, and this year our members helped raise a total of $6,987.82! Thank you for helping us raise the much-needed funds it takes to operate and care for the animals that find their way to the Foothills Animal Shelter.

Be sure to check out our video interviews with some of the pet owners and their pets that made the 2023 calendar!

Here is a little information from The Foothills Animal Shelter website to understand why we do this every year.

About Foothills Animal Shelter

Foothills Animal Shelter is an open-admissions facility, which means we never turn away an animal. We care for more than 9,200 orphaned cats, kittens, dogs, puppies and critters every year with a compassionate team of staff and volunteers. (Unfortunately, we cannot accept wild animals; they should be taken to organizations that specialize in their care.) We are a true community resource and offer a variety of services including pet adoption, Jefferson County pet licensing, affordable spaying and neutering, vaccinations, micro chipping and lost and found pets. We are committed to our important mission and the life-saving work that we do every day of the year.

Years Past – Look How Far We’ve Come

For the past 11 years, Credit Union of Denver members and our community have donated a total of $157,340.67 to Foothills Animal Shelter. Our hope is to continue this tradition for years to come. Below are some of the previous calendars’ cover pets!

This fall, we set out on a mission to spread comfort and cheer to the brave little warriors at the Children's Hospital Colorado. 

Over the course of three days C∙U∙D employees volunteered 188 hours of their time to craft cozy, handmade no-sew blankets for the patients of Children's Hospital. 

Children’s Colorado’s Association of Volunteers released an article addressing the need for more blankets at Children's Hospital. 

We were honored with an ambassador visiting from Children’s Hospital. We were so moved learning more about the miracles that Children’s Hospital performs and to be able to play a small part in all that they do for their patients. 

At the end of the three days we donated over 150 blankets!

We hope these blankets will bring the children warmth and hope. It's about more than just blankets, it's about the love, care, and support we can provide to our community, and make a difference where it truly matters. 

This was such a rewarding experience, and we can’t recommend it enough. If you are able, please consider donating to Children’s Hospital, whether that’s no-sew blankets or however you are able.

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🎉🙌🏼 Celebrating Our Amazing Members! 🙌🏼🎉

A heartfelt thank you to all those who attended our Member Appreciation Day! At Credit Union of Denver, our members are the heart of our community!

❤️ Whether you’ve been with us for years or just joined recently, your loyalty and support mean everything. 🌟

#MemberAppreciation #CommunityStrong #CreditUnionLove

We are excited to share that we have awarded a total of $10,000 in scholarships to five individuals who will be furthering their education. This year we saw an abundance of scholarship applications from students on their way to doing remarkable things.

Thank you to everyone who entered this year. We had over seventy applications, creating a tough competition and difficult decisions for our scholarship committee. 

Applications were anonymously reviewed by a group of Credit Union of Denver volunteers. Winners were selected based upon their academic achievement, community involvement, extracurricular activities, essay responses, and other eligibility requirements. Thank you to our scholarship review team for taking the time to learn about each applicant and make those tough decisions. 

Without further ado, below are this year’s scholarship winners.

Best of luck to all of our scholarship applicants as they take the next steps on their education journey.

2024 Children's Hospital Donation

Our Spring 2024 Children's Hospital Campaign raised $2,000 in donations plus our C·U·D match. Thank you to our membership for donating to this great organization. We are happy to continue to support the health and wellness of our community's youth. 

Stay tuned on our Community Page for more opportunities to pay it forward! 

2023 Children's Hospital Donation

We're thrilled to announce that our recent fundraiser for Colorado Children's Hospital generated a donation of $5,554.43! A special thanks to our members and the Lakewood Community for donating.

As part of our ongoing commitment to supporting children's health and well-being, we are honored to contribute to the amazing work they do in providing specialized care and treatment for young patients.

Join us in applauding the dedicated staff, doctors, nurses, and volunteers who make a significant impact on the lives of children and their families every single day.

Together, we can make a difference and bring smiles to the faces of these brave little warriors. Thank you for your continued support! 

Credit Unions for Kids is the brand under which America's credit unions, including Credit Union of Denver, fundraise for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals (CMN). Since Credit Unions are member-owned, not-for-profits, our main focus is our members and community. Credit unions are driven by the philosophy of "people helping people", and our support of CMN Hospitals is a great example of the ways credit unions give back and support their communities.

In fact, since the creation of the CU4Kids brand in 1996, the credit union industry has raised $200 million for affiliated children's hospitals! The credit union community has established a wonderful legacy at hospitals across the country, funding breakthrough research, numerous programs and services and construction of new facilities.

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