Serving the underserved
b'At their very best, credit unions serve at the hearts of their communities. In this podcast, Cathie Mahon, president/CEO of Inclusiv, describes how her organization promotes financial inclusion and builds more inclusive economies through community-owned financial institutions.\\xa0 Inclusiv is a national network of community development credit unions formed by and for low-income communities to serve disinvested and underserved populations. Membership is open to credit unions designated as Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) or Minority Depository Institutions (MDI) and to credit unions primarily organized around the mission of promoting financial inclusion.\\xa0 Inclusiv operates on DEI principles, with programs that empower disenfranchised communities and promote cooperative solutions among credit unions.\\xa0 Mahon explains that DEI is critical to everything that Inclusiv does\\u2014and emphasizes that it\\u2019s also everything credit unions are about.'