Thank You For A Successful 2021

Feb 10, 2022 A+ News

We’re grateful for our members who continue to help support the credit union.

A family standing in a field and looking at a mountain. The father has a young girl on his shoulder and the mother is holding a baby.

2021 gave us an opportunity to grow through new challenges.

With the re-opening of lobbies, hosting virtual events, and continuing to advance our online and mobile banking features, valued members like you and our A+FCU team had to adapt to even more new circumstances in 2021 – and we’re thankful we could come together as a community to support one another.

2021 Accomplishments

$13.6 Million In Cash-Back Checking Giveback

Since the program started in 2007, members who have a free Cash-Back Checking Account and debit card earn rewards on everyday purchases.

School Spirit Debit Card Program

Through our custom debit card program, we gave back over $219,400 to local schools and school districts in 2021.

Akins High School (Austin ISD) – $16,568.35
Connally High School (Pflugerville ISD) – $10,796.70
Hendrickson High School (Pflugerville ISD) – $13,033.40
Hutto ISD – $101,363.50
Lake Travis ISD – $22,315.70
Round Rock High School (Round Rock ISD) – $17,097.30
San Marcos High School (San Marcos CISD) – $38,239.45

The House That Credit Unions Built

For a second year, we partnered with other local credit unions and Austin Habitat for Humanity to build a home for a community member in need through The House That Credit Unions Built program.

A+ Gives

We continued our A+ Gives program by supporting multiple organizations throughout the year. A few highlights include:

Donation to the Children’s Advocacy Center (CAC) of Bastrop, Lee, and Fayette Counties to provide financial assistance during relocation.
Over $12,300 contributed from A+FCU and employees to local schools and programs to ensure students are fed during the school week, as well as on weekends and during breaks.
Partnered with the Austin Young Chamber to volunteer for Black Lives Veggies where our employees helped build garden beds and plant seedlings.
Volunteering at the Austin Diaper Bank to help package sets of diapers for distribution to local families.
Helped assemble and deliver over 1,000 bags of snack care kits for Caritas of Austin.

Visit our A+ Gives page to learn more about the program and see what we’re doing this year.

Helping Our Community

In February, Texas faced a major challenge with Winter Storm Uri. We introduced a new Winter Storm Line of Credit, a non-credit qualifying loan, to help over 4,500 members by lending out more than $7.56 million.

Supporting Education

As an institution created for and by educators, we’re committed to helping our communities thrive through education. Even through a pandemic, here’s what we were able to achieve:

300 Volunteer hours to chamber, education, and community events
61 Community Education events with 1,799 attendees
1,000 Scouts earned their Personal Management Merit Badge since first offering the program in 2010
Awarded $100,000 in scholarships to 50 recipients
Over $84,350 in grants awarded to 64 area educators

Members Helping Members

We appreciate our members’ support of our mission of building stronger communities. Together, all of us helped grow the credit union to over 180,000 members in 2021. We’re proud that so many of our members believe in us and took action to refer A+FCU to friends and family through our Refer A Friend Program.