Blog Sample for Credit Unions
As your local credit union, we strive to meet your needs in every way possible. At (credit union
name), we are proud of our conservative nature when it comes to making loans. Your money is
our money and we take that seriously. We don’t make risky loans just to try to make more of a
profit. As I hope you know, we’re a not-for-profit financial institution. That means any profit we
make goes back to you in the form of lower interest rates and fewer fees.
You may not realize it but credit unions are only allowed to lend 12.25 percent of their assets.
This is an arbitrary figure that banks lobbied to have included in our federal charter in 1998.
Before 1998, credit unions never had a member business lending cap and never had major
problems with the way they lent money because of our conservative nature. Recently we’ve
been working to have the lending cap raised from 12.25 percent of assets to 27.5 percent.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has said he will bring a member business lending bill, S.
2231, up for a vote on the Senate floor. The banks, as you would imagine, are lobbying hard to
keep the cap in place.
Credit unions have continued to lend while many banks have pulled back. We have money to
lend; it’s simply that banks don’t want us to. When you think about that statement, it makes no
sense. Here’s where (credit union name) could use your help. We need to let our senators know
that allowing credit unions to lend more is the right thing to do. Let Sens. Bill Nelson and Marco
Rubio or Sens. Richard Shelby and Jeff Sessions know that voting to raise the cap is a vote of
support for our community. (Credit union name) is a local institution that lends to local
businesses. You can get in touch with your senator by:
Sen. Bill Nelson – Phone: (850) 942-8415 (Tallahassee), (202)224-5274 (D.C.)
Sen. Marco Rubio - Phone: (305) 418-8553 (Miami), (202) 224-3041 (D.C.)
Sen. Richard Shelby - Phone: (334) 223-7303 (Montgomery), (202) 224-5744 (D.C.)
Sen. Jeff Sessions - Phone: (334) 244-7017 (Montgomery), (202) 224-4124 (D.C.)
The credit union philosophy is “People helping People.” We live by that philosophy. By lending
to our local businesses, we are helping (insert city name) grow and keeping our citizens
employed. We can’t sit back and let the banks tell us what we can offer you, our memberowner, while they do just the opposite. I hope you will consider taking five minutes out of your
day to call your senator and ask that he support S. 2231. As a member-owner of (credit union
name), raising the member business lending cap benefits our community, our local businesses
and does not cost tax payers a dime. This is good policy that is much needed across the
country.