Young & Free Goes Texan
Aug 15, 2008 
CU Newswire | By Donna-Lane Nelson
Lake Jackson TX: The Common Wealth Young & Free program is going to Texas. The Texas Dow Employees CU (TDECU) with over 125,000 members, launched what they described as the much sought-after Young & Free program, a financial management package designed to engage 19 to 25-year-olds. Tim McAlpine of Currency Marketing, who worked with Common Wealth CEO Jeff Mulligan on the program, made this comment on the cross border transition. "From a Canadian credit union perspective, I think an interesting story is how we have formed a very unique and innovative partnership with our founding partner, Common Wealth Credit Union, to roll this out beyond their credit union. It takes a very progressive and cooperative organization to realize that something that they have been instrumental in creating and that has been so successful and won so many awards can have a life beyond their own organization. Most organizations are programmed to hold on to their innovations with an iron fist. In this case though, Jeff Mulligan and CWCU have demonstrated the true essence of cooperative movement." TDECU has an exclusive for the state of Texas.
