Products & Services
Young & Free Chequing Account
Common Wealth Credit Union is proud to introduce the new Young & Free chequing account—the first of its kind in Alberta.
Free and unlimited:
- Withdrawals from your own or other credit union Acculink® ATMs
- Check out the list of ATMs that are available on or near all Canadian post-secondary campuses.
- Transfers between accounts
- Point-of-sale transactions
- Global payment card transactions
- Cheques
- Bill payments
- Internet banking and teleservice
If you are between 17 and 25 years of age, you qualify!
The Young & Free Alberta Community
Young & Free Alberta is our ongoing effort to connect with young people.
It's about giving young people a voice, a head start and useful information.
The Young & Free is a platform designed to help define freedom for Northern Albertan youth and provides fun and educational resources to help and challenge young people to move towards that freedom. Young & Free comes to life in an online environment where meaning happens amongst thought-provoking, relevant and empowering dialogue.
The Purpose
- Give Northern Alberta's under 25 crowd a voice and place of their own.
- Empower members of this group to define and find freedom.
- Provide free and relevant advice.
- Find a spokesperson from within this group who will listen and be an ear to what’s going on about topics that are important to youth.
- Help us learn from the under 25 crowd to help the credit union design better products and services that this group needs.
- Raise our profile to get on young people’s consideration list for possible financial institutions.
Visit www.youngfreealberta.com to learn more.
Wow! Young & Free Alberta wins first place in the Forrester Groundswell Awards
This is the biggest recognition yet for Young & Free Alberta!
The Forrester Groundswell Awards recognize excellence in accomplishing business goals with social applications. Forrester developed this awards program to support and recognize the principles outlined in the Forrester book Groundswell: Winning In A World Transformed By Social Technologies (Harvard Business Press, 2008). Winners were selected based on a combination of online community reviews and proof of business value. The awards recognize companies that effectively use social media across seven categories: Listening, Talking, Energizing, Supporting, Embracing, Managing and Social Impact.
What's the big deal?
The big deal is being recognized as the best initiative amongst the 34 nominated entries in the Talking category. Honestly, we thought being included with this group was recognition enough, but winning against these incredible initiatives is hard to fathom.
- Quickbooks Community
- Kraft Philadelphia Cream Cheese blog
- Bud Light Facebook application
- Sears Arrive Lounge
- General Motors iGotShotgun launch site for new Corvette
- American Express OPEN Forum
- The Wall Street Journal Get Socialized
- Intel Chinese user-generated advertising campaign
- Rubbermaid's Adventures in Organization blog
- Johnson & Johnson health channel on YouTube
- Microsoft Office Poke Facebook application
- Coca Cola's MyCokeRewards.com
Here is an interview with our own Kim Crockett that aired on Nexcap News at 6 in Lloydminster in December.
