2023 QCU Stats: 

37,026

Number of members

2,120

Number of new members that joined QCU

3,148 / $110,102,133

Number of loans and amount financed   

16,364

Number of mobile banking active users

18,975

Number of home banking active users 

Supporting Our Community

For 86 years, Quincy Credit Union has been deeply involved in the communities we serve. Our mission is to provide our members with outstanding personal service to satisfy their financial needs. 

“Improving the lives of our members and the communities they live and work in is at the heart of what we do as a credit union,” says President and CEO of QCU, John Miller.
For several years now, QCU has focused its community efforts on these key areas:

• Encouraging financial literacy
• Supporting health and wellness programs
• Fighting homelessness and hunger
• Investing in our youth
• Celebrating community through engagement
• Giving back to our community 

Encouraging Financial Literacy

Financial Education for Students

We strive to make financial education relevant and easily accessible to both youth and adults. We work closely with local public-school systems to provide students with lessons on financial literacy.

Below are just a few examples of our partnerships with schools:

●    Sponsored and participated in Credit for Life Fairs in both Quincy and Weymouth High Schools and, for the first time, participated in Marshfield High School’s Smart with Money Fair, their version of Credit for Life. These fairs are nationally recognized and designed to help high school students develop personal financial management skills that they will use throughout their lives.

Provided in-person financial education presentations to:

• Quincy and Weymouth high school students on “Teens and Money”, a presentation that provides an understanding of the necessary steps towards financial independence. In 2024, we will expand to involve additional local public high schools, including Marshfield.
• Freshmen at Quincy College on “Personal Finance for College Students”. 
  

Seminars

We provided a variety of free seminars to our members that included first-time home buying, cyber security, and estate planning. We collaborated with Quincy Investment Services to provide additional seminars on income strategies during retirement, an introduction to individual retirement accounts, and securing Social Security.

Online Financial Education

QCU offers free access to informative modules that cover dozens of financial topics through its website’s Financial Education Center. 

Supporting Health and Wellness Programs

To help during life’s challenges, QCU has partnered with local non-profit organizations to provide financial support for initiatives that promote health and wellness, build community connections, and deliver care to those in need.

Here are just some of the programs we have supported in 2023:

• The Lion’s Club: helped provide low cost and free eye screenings
• Interfaith Social Services: helped to lower the cost of mental health counseling
• South Shore Support Services and The New England Village: provided funding to help assist individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities
• South Shore based veterans: helped to provide wheelchairs and ramp installations
• American Cancer Society: helped fund cancer research
• The Mikayla Fund: helped bring awareness to the issue of teen suicide
• Manet Community Health Center: helped fund preventative and behavioral health for low-income populations

Fighting Homelessness and Hunger

QCU is committed to doing its part to help people who are struggling with housing and food insecurity. We support local organizations that provide these invaluable services to individuals in need.

Housing

Each year, QCU donates funds to local organizations dedicated to helping the homeless, such as South Shore Habitat for Humanity and Manet Community Health Center. Additionally, we presented a new program, Money and You, focused on providing helpful financial information to the unhoused at Father Bill’s in Quincy and MainSpring.

Food

Food Drive: In 2023, QCU held its annual employee and community Food Drive to benefit Quincy Community Action Program’s Southwest Community Center and Weymouth Food Pantry. We are proud to have donated over 397 pounds of much needed food, the equivalent of 476 meals served!

QCU held additional drives to help community organizations, including:

• Wandering Hearts Project Diaper Drive
  Together, with our QCU employees and members, we donated a total of 750 diapers and gave $500 to help children who are in the foster system or are homeless.

• Toys for Tots
  With the help of employees and members, QCU donated over 290 new, unwrapped toys for disadvantaged children this holiday season.

Staff Volunteerism

QCU staff members take pride in helping local non-profit organizations with their missions. In 2023, our staff volunteered a total of 57.5 hours at the Weymouth Food Pantry’s Made with Love program and the Quincy Community Action Program.

Investing in our Youth

Supporting Local School Programs and Activities

QCU supported a variety of local school programs in Quincy, Weymouth, Braintree, and now Marshfield. These include sports activities, school plays, and music recitals.

Here are just a few examples of our support:

• STEM education
• Spring Musicals
• Senior Night Out raffle prizes
• Literacy Week to promote reading
• 500 backpacks and school supplies to elementary students
• 60 QCU string bags to be used on school field trips
• Donated to school fundraisers

D.A.R.E. Program

In partnership with the Quincy Police Department, Quincy Credit Union helped fund a two-week Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E) summer program for the youth of Quincy.

QCU Annual Student Scholarships

Today’s youth are tomorrow’s leaders. Every year, QCU selects five students through its scholarship lottery system to help fund college expenses. In 2023, 92 students applied for our scholarships.

Celebrating Community through Engagement

Throughout 2023, QCU had the honor of sponsoring and participating in several community events to help support local organizations, including but not limited to:

• Quincy Tree Lighting
• Weymouth Pumpkin Give-A-Wey
• Marshfield Lobsterfest

Our Continuing Commitment

We proudly funded local organizations $50,000 in monetary or in-kind donations to help improve the lives of residents in the communities we serve.