How Columbia Credit Union Keeps Members on the Fast Track to Financial Wellness
None of us wants to waste time. We’re all interested in finding quicker ways to travel from one location to another. And businesses are motivated to determine cost-effective ways to quickly transport raw materials and finished goods.
Before ride-sharing services and tractor-trailers traversed America’s highways and main streets, one form of transportation stood supreme — trains. Led by a locomotive, trains transport both people and goods to destinations across the country.
The Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway (SP&S) once served businesses and consumers in the northwest territories of the U.S. Though the SP&S no longer exists in its original form, its legacy lives on through a financial institution serving the residents in states where the railway once operated.
Columbia Credit Union started in 1952 to serve employees of the SP&S railroad. The credit union expanded its operations to serve community members in 1975. We spoke with Mike Rosenberg, Columbia Credit Union’s Vice President of Marketing, to learn more about the credit union’s products and services and its commitment to improving its members’ lives.
“Overall, we work to make life better for our communities,” Rosenberg told us. “We’re a classic credit union in that we’re a community cooperative here to support our members. We want people to be able to bank locally with us so their money can stay in our community, and we can multiply the good that we can do together.”