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| COMMUNITY INVOLVMENT | | | Your Caisse promotes the integration of young people of all ages, from toddlers to college and university students. Over 5,000 young people are reached directly through the following activities:
· We offer the School Caisse service in 10 Orléans elementary schools.
· We have met with school principals and history teachers about the teaching aid: “One Member, One Vote”. An initiative of the Caisse populaire Orléans to get readers to become interested in the world of cooperatives and understand how they operate.
· Class lectures in high schools for financial and budgeting education.
· Lectures on Desjardins products and services at the Cité collégiale and the University of Ottawa.
· Information stands for back to school in September at the Cité collégiale and the University of Ottawa.
· Many activities for young people are also sponsored: Badminton tournament, Soapbox race, Picnic at The Little School, Sketch, Improv League, Student Express, etc.
· Over $5,000 was issued as scholarships, including $2,000 in our high schools, $1,000 to the Cité collégiale and $2,000 for our young student members.
We also offer the following products specifically intended for young people aged 18 to 30:
For Students Only credit card
Student Advantage line of credit
Through all these actions, we demonstrate our determination to create a positive, meaningful relationship with young people in order to contribute to their well-being.
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| | COOPERATIVE DIFFERENCE REPORT | | | Your Caisse expresses its cooperative difference in many ways: in how it delivers its services; in its contribution to the cooperative, economic and financial education of its members; in its support for the development of its community and cooperation as well as its democratic way of operating.
As a cooperative institution, your Caisse ensures that its services are available to you and gives priority to meeting your needs: advice to members for reducing service charges; preventative call to some members; partnership with Entraide budgétaire to help members obtain micro-credit and creation of a community fund to help local disadvantaged families.
As owner-members, you can have a say in Caisse policies and results, by attending the Annual General Meeting at 7 p.m. on April 21, 2010 at École secondaire publique Gisèle-Lalonde. A hot buffet will be served from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., (at a cost of $5), and tickets will be on sale at the Caisse from February 22 to April 13, 2010.
In 2009, your Caisse has awarded an amount of over $60,000 in donations and sponsorships to support more than fifty projects.
Here is the breakdown of the amount by sector:
Humanitarian: $4,216
Community: $20,000
Arts and culture: $12,175
Education: $19,762
Sports & recreation: $4,663
To name only a few projects, we are the official partner for the 150th anniversary of St. Joseph’s parish of Orléans and for the 2009-2010 artistic programming of MIFO, which will take place at the new Shenkman Arts Centre. Desjardins and the Caisses populaires of Ottawa and Eastern Ontario have also invested $750,000 in the construction of La Cité collégiale's new Centre des métiers in Orléans, which will mark the birth of the new Alphonse-Desjardins campus.
We would like to take the opportunity to thank you for your loyalty and ongoing collaboration in the Caisse’s activities. | | |
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Confident of the effectiveness of our cooperative approach, the Caisse is highlighting its advantages more proudly than ever before. The cooperative formula distinguishes us in a number of ways: through our mode of service delivery, the dividends (individual and group) we offer our members, our contribution to the cooperative, economic and financial education of our members, our support for community development and cooperation, and our democratic mode of operation.
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