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Margate Credit Union Donates 25K to Hurricane Relief Efforts

by Kevin Deutsch October 10, 2022

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Margate Credit Union Donates 25K to Hurricane Relief Efforts

We Florida Financial in Margate. {Google}

By Kevin Deutsch

We Florida Financial, a credit union, based in Margate, is donating $25,000 to Hurricane Ian relief efforts, the bank’s leaders announced.

The credit union publicly committed to donating a total of $100,000 to charitable causes and organizations by year’s end, which includes $25,000 in hurricane relief funds to be donated through the Florida Disaster Relief Fund and League of Southeastern Credit Union Foundation.

“We are an organization committed to our community and pride ourselves not only on our financial contributions to causes making a positive impact but the volunteering of our time,” said Robert D. Ramirez, President, and CEO of We Florida Financial.

“Our associates, both at a corporate level and within our branches, are dedicated to supporting these causes by committing their personal time to charity events and fundraising initiatives…in the wake of the devastation rendered by Hurricane Ian, we are allocating a $25,000 contribution to relief efforts.”

We Florida Financial has multiple South Florida branches, including one in Lauderhill. The bank is a cooperatively owned community credit union with 45,000 Members and over $720 million in assets.

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Kevin Deutsch

Kevin Deutsch is an award-winning journalist and author of two nonfiction books. He covers general assignment news and Jewish community issues for Talk Media. He has also worked as a staff writer at The Miami Times, the Rio Grande SUN, the New York Daily News, Newsday, The Miami Herald, The Palm Beach Post, The Riverdale Press, and Bronx Justice News.