Altura Credit Union is the largest credit union headquartered in Riverside County, California, United States, licensed by the Department of Financial Institutions of California and insured by the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund (NCUSIF). Altura Credit Union offers a wide range of financial products and services including: check and savings accounts, online banking and web billing, mobile banking, Apple Pay, PopMoney, new and used vehicle loans, home mortgages, online and mobile loan applications, and more. Credit unions are also part of a network that allows members to conduct financial transactions at 5,200 joint branches (CU Service Centers) and free access to over 30,000 ATMs (CO-OP Financial Services).
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Altura was founded in 1957 by two school employees in Riverside, California, as Credit Union Riverside School. Established to serve the financial needs of school district employees, in 1998 joined the Riverside County Federal Credit Union, which served Riverside County employees to become a Riverside County Credit Union. Over time, it grew into, and remains today, the largest credit union headquartered in Riverside County.
In 2004, the credit union expanded its membership field to cover both Riverside and San Diego areas as well as selected cities in San Bernardino and San Diego County. To better reflect the area of ââits growing geographic services, Credit Union Riverside County changed its name to Altura Credit Union, on October 1, 2004. The publicity for the name change says "Our new name means height, altitude, altitude."
Pronounced "all-TOUR-ah," the name was accompanied by a new logo, design elements and brand identity. The colors reflect the water, agriculture and mountains of the Southern California community served by Altura Credit Union.
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Merger with Visterra Credit Union
Altura Credit Union and Visterra Credit Union, both based in Riverside County, California, announced their intention to merge their financial institutions on February 19, 2015. The announcement cited the desire to better serve their members' needs. This merger was completed on August 1, 2015, which created a $ 1.1 billion credit union with 118,000 Members. At the time of the announcement, Altura Credit Union, headquartered in Riverside, California, had $ 757.3 million in assets and nearly 84,000 Members. Visterra Credit Union, headquartered in Moreno Valley, California, has $ 335.6 million in assets and approximately 34,000 Members. On March 1, 2016, Altura completed the final part of the merger - conversion process of its core system.
Membership
The membership area of ââAltura Credit Union is defined by the Department of Financial Institutions of California. Membership in Altura is open to anyone who lives, works, worships or attends schools in the Riverside and San Diego areas, plus residents of selected cities in Orange County [Anaheim, Garden Grove, Irvine and Santa Ana] and San Bernardino County [Rancho Cucamonga , Ontario, and Fontana]. In August 2015, Altura completed a merger with Moreno Valley-based Visterra Credit Union. Altura integrates Visterra's membership guidelines, and extends its membership to the US military, US government and civilian employees working at the Air Base Reserve in March in Riverside County, and retired US Armed Forces.
College College Scholarship
In 1993, Altura Credit Union established the College Scholarship program. Every student graduating from Riverside County secondary school, public or private, is eligible to apply. Since the beginning of the program, Altura Foundation has awarded $ 526,950 in college scholarships to 586 Riverside County high schools to assist in pursuing higher education. In addition, students may also apply for the Bonnie Gail Polis Educational Endowment and Terry Ferrone Memorial Scholarship. In 2016, Altura's Board of Directors created two new endowments through the Altura Foundation: Altura Board of Directors Educational Endowment and Dr. Linda Wisher Educational Endowment to honor Altura Board members who died in 2016. The Wisher Endowment provides its first scholarship in 2016.
Community Commitment
Altura is a community-based financial institution serving Riverside County and the larger Kingdom of the Outback. Altura contributes to nonprofit organizations, charities, education, military, police, public services, and business support throughout the Inland Empire. In addition to money contributions, employees are encouraged to support their favorite organizations by volunteering their time. In 2015, Altura donated $ 250,000 to local organizations.
Branch location
Altura Credit Union operates 13 branch locations and 52 ATM Altura in Riverside County. Altura members also have access to over 5,200 joint branching locations and 30,000 free ATMs nationwide.
Kota Riverside:
- Riverside Avenue of 6403 Riverside Ave.
- 14th Street of 3451 14th St.
- Magnolia Avenue of 10725 Magnolia Ave.
- Canyon Springs 2692 Canyon Springs Parkway, Suite C
- University Avenue of 1616 University Ave.
City of the Moreno Valley:
- Cactus at 23540 Cactus Ave.
- Stoneridge on 27130 Eucalyptus Ave., Suite E
Kota Murrieta:
- 40 412 already Murrieta Murrieta Hot Springs Road
Kota Corona:
- Corona South of 2331 Compton Ave.
- Lincoln of 650 S. Lincoln Ave., Suite 101
Desert Areas:
- Rancho Mirage at 36101 Bob Hope Drive
- Indio on 81096 Highway 11
- West Hemet at 320 S. Sanderson Ave., Hemet
AutoExpert
Altura Credit Union operates one subsidiary. Auto Expert is an automotive looking and buying service that helps Altura members (as well as members of 11 partner credit partners) in search of their next pre-owned and/or new vehicle. Their services are very similar to their Autoland competitors in Southern California. In 2007, AutoExpert was awarded the California Awards for Performance Excellence (CAPE) Gold Award. This is a program equivalent to California, Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Program. CAPE recognizes organizations that demonstrate superior performance in seven key business areas including leadership; strategic planning, customer and market focus, measurement and knowledge management, human resources, process management and business results.
History
In the late 1950s, Peggy Green, a secretary at Riverside Secondary School, decided that classified school employees needed their own credit union. Her husband is a teacher, and is part of the teacher credit credit, but only certified employees can join - membership is not available if the person is classified. In October 1956, he invited other school secretaries to attend meetings to organize credit unions for secret employees at the Riverside School District (RUSD).
On August 22, 1957, they were awarded the state charter as the Municipal River Credit Union, which lists the following six organizers: Ethel C. Collier, Louise Bailey, Ruth C. Klock, Frank W. Meyer, George W. Peters, and Charles Sandell. Ethell Collier handles the business from her desk at the RUSD payroll office. Credit unions moved to a portable building in Palm School, and then to his own office on Brockton Avenue. On March 1, 1973, it established its headquarters and its main branch at 6403 Riverside Ave., Riverside, which continues as the current branch location. In 1981 opened a branch office in Cathedral City, followed by Corona in 1986, Moreno Valley in 1992, and the Member Service Center in 1995, now called Operation & amp; Technology Center.
Altura Credit Union milestone:
- The 1957 charter was awarded to the Riverside City School School Workers Union to serve employees at the Riverside Unified School District.
- 1963 The charter extended to include all Riverside County school employees, renamed the Riverside School Credit Union Charter and expanded to include employee certificates
- 1965 Reached $ 1 million in assets
- 1973 Moved to Riverside Avenue location
- 1984 Opening 10,000th account; started offering VISA cards
- 1988 Mark Hawkins replaces Shirley Barden as President; reached $ 40 million in assets
- 1989 Renamed Riverside County School Credit School
- 1992 Established its own RCSCU ATM network
- The 1993 College Scholarship Program begins
- 1995 Open Service Center; reached $ 100 million in assets; The RCSCU Foundation (for scholarships) is approved by the IRS; introduces VISA Check Card
- 1998 Riverside County Schools Credit Union joins Riverside County Federal Credit Union to form Credit Union Riverside County; $ 250 million in assets and 60,000 members.
- 2004 Changed the name to Altura Credit Union
- 2005 Altura welcomes its 100,000th member
- 2006 Delivering the California Awards 2012 Award for Performance Performance (CAPE) Silver Award, California equivalent of the Baldrige National Quality Award
- 2006 AutoExpert, Altura's subsidiary, was awarded the California Award for 2012 Award for CAPE Silver Award, California equivalent of the National Baldrige Quality Award
- 2007 AutoExpert, a subsidiary of Altura, was awarded the 2007 California Award for Performance Excellence (CAPE), equivalent to the National Baldrige Quality Award
- 2011 Altura Credit Union wins the Credit Union Gold Credit Award Marketing Association for ad campaign
- 2012 Altura is named "Favorite Credit Credit" by readers of The Press-Enterprise newspaper in the 17th Annual Readers' Awards. 2014 Highlanders Sports Properties of Learfield Sports, a multimedia rights partner of the University of California, Riverside (UCR) and Highlander Athletics, announces a new four year exclusive partnership with Altura Credit Union, providing Altura an unprecedented presence on UCR Campus including Highlander Spirit Debit Card, in-game and branding venue promotion, and ATM SRC Arena.
- 2014 Altura Credit Union was selected as one of the best places to work at Inland Empire by the largest local newspaper, The Press-Enterprise.
- 2015 In February, Altura Credit Union announced its intention to join the Moreno Valley-based Visterra Credit Union, which serves military and civilian employees from the March Air Reserves Base and retired military
- 2015 San Jacinto Education Foundation named Altura Credit Union in 2015 Business of the Year in recognition of the creation and sponsorship of the Student of the Month program.
- 2015 Ofelia Valdez-Yeager was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors Altura Credit Union became the first woman to hold that title in the history of the credit union.
- 2015 Altura Credit Union announces that it will once again offer its first mortgage to members â ⬠<
- 2015 Altura Credit Union finalizes its merger with Visterra Credit Union on August 1, 2015
- 2016 Altura President & amp; CEO Mark Hawkins announced in May that he will retire in February 2017 after 29 years working in a credit union.
- 2017 The Board of Directors of Altura Credit Union announced on January 11, 2017, that Jennifer Binkley was elected as the new President/CEO. Binkley has been executive vice president of Altura and chief operating officer since 2008, and was previously the president of Altura AutoExpert subsidiary from 2002 to 2008.
References
External links
- Official website
- http://www.autoexpertonline.com/
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