Freedom First Enterprises

The helping hands fund is for current Freedom First credit union employees who are experiencing temporary financial hardship due to emergency situations beyond their control. This emergency situation can be extended to immediate household family members whose hardship directly impacts the employee. A temporary financial hardship is one caused by a defined, time-limited, specific event such as fire, natural disaster (flood, tornado, etc. ), theft of property, death in immediate family, accident, loss of property, disease, extended illness or disability. "temporary" means that the employee was able to manage their finances before but are now several hundred dollars in debt and, with these funds, could regain their financial stability within a couple of months.

To provide funding to blue ridge partnership for health sciences careers. The initiative's goal is to give students in the roanoke and new river valleys and surrounding counties the opportunity to acquire stackable credentials, starting in high school, and continuing through community college or a four-year institution. The intention is to expand the program into a standardized curriculum throughout the commonwealth of Virginia. The claude moore foundation will cultivated a statewide health sciences pipeline to effectively to meet the high demand for health sciences professionals across Virginia.

To provide funding to Freedom First credit union (ffcu) for contributions to eight non-profit organizations in ffcu's service area that promote community and household economy such as poverty reduction, affordable housing, and financial education, health and human services, and arts and culture. Funding was also provided to award college scholarships to area high school students.