Helping Hands™

Taking "Making a Difference" to an All New Level!

"You've blended powerful team development with hope, innovation and satisfying work - it's a can't miss combination"

The CU Philanthropy Group is proud to offer one of the most exciting new events in staff development! Helping Hands is an inspiring team building and process improvement program that delivers much more than traditional  events of this type. During the Helping Hands™ program your group will be challenged to assemble brand new, functional, prosthetic hands that will be distributed through Rotary International to children and adults in developing nations who have lost limbs to land mines, through conflict, disease and birth defects. By participating in Helping Hands™, your team will have a front-row seat and hands-on participation in changing the lives of children and adults that have suffered loss of hand use. With the support of the World Council of Credit Unions, the CU Philanthropy Group has entered into a relationship with the Islamic Investment and Finance Cooperative Group to help deliver hands assembled by credit unions in the US to people in need of prosthetics in the northern regions of Afghanistan. The IIFC's provide mico finance to small business owners where traditional banking fails.  The cooperative nature of this group is a perfect fit for establishing a delivery channel for our prosthetics in this area of the world.

What participants are saying:

  -- "This was “a huge win-win; probably the best team building exercise we’ve ever done; and in doing it, we attained the additional pleasure of helping someone else” reported Mike Swalley, CEO of Dominion CU. “What a powerful way to build teamwork,” echoed Vice-President of Marketing, Natalie Baker. “It’s a rewarding exercise that helps you take a very real look at how your teams truly interact. Not only is there valuable self-discovery, but helping to dramatically improve a child’s life at the same time is a powerful thing.”

  -- “We were looking for a new way to bring our team together and the ‘Helping Hands’ presentation delivered. ‘Helping Hands’ was a wonderful team building exercise for us and many of the employees walked away from the event thanking us for giving them the opportunity to make such a difference in someone’s life. One employee even asked when we could do it again! How many presentations do your employees walk away from asking for more? Thank you ‘Helping Hands’ for giving our team such an inspirational evening.“  ~ Alyssa Karl, Director of Marketing, Heartland CU

This program combines business relevance with a cooperative problem-solving exercise of actually assembling the prosthetics - creating a truly inspiring and educational event.