My latest column in Vancouver magazine is about our eponymous credit union, which sometimes feels like a form of local government. VanCity is going through big changes — it dumped its insurance service and announced it was shutting down Citizens Bank’s loan operations since I wrote this piece.
I spent some time with CEO Tamara Vrooman … plus went on a trip to Italy with a group of VanCity employees to find out more about the co-operative that wants to be a business and vice versa.
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1 Frothingham // Aug 28, 2009 at 8:13 pm
“I spent some time with CEO Tamara Vrooman … plus went on a trip to Italy with a group of VanCity employees to find out more about the co-operative that wants to be a business and vice versa.”
… we need details Fbula. What co-op? what did you and the Vancity folks do? Where you a paid consultant? An observer? Confess yourself… come clean
2 Frances Bula // Aug 29, 2009 at 8:05 am
Hmm, if you read the article, you’ll see that I went a kind of summer school that VanCity runs in Bologna. (The co-op that wants to be a business and vice versa is VanCity — confusing wording, I guess.) Me, a consultant? Ha ha ha. Nope, just an observer who paid my own way there.
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