{"id":7053,"date":"2012-08-23T22:53:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T05:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/azaroff.com\/?p=7053"},"modified":"2023-11-03T09:16:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T16:16:52","slug":"joining-filene-i3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/?p=7053","title":{"rendered":"Joining Filene i3."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am pleased to tell you that I am joining the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.filene.org\/community\/i3\" title=\"Filene i3\">Filene i3 program<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s that? <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.filene.org\/community\/i3\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azaroff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/filene_i3_color409x170_pix-300x124.jpg?resize=300%2C124&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Filene i3\" title=\"Filene i3\" width=\"300\" height=\"124\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7065\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azaroff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/filene_i3_color409x170_pix.jpg?resize=300%2C124&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azaroff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/filene_i3_color409x170_pix.jpg?w=409&amp;ssl=1 409w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Well, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.filene.org\" title=\"Filene Research Institute\">Filene<\/a> is an organization &#8220;<em>dedicated to scientific and thoughtful analysis about issues affecting the future of consumer finance and credit unions<\/em>&#8220;. Not the people who have a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Filene&#039;s_Basement\" title=\"Filene&#039;s Basement\">basement<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edward_Filene\" title=\"Edward Filene\">Same family<\/a>, different mission.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.filene.org\/community\/i3\" title=\"Filene i3\">i3<\/a> is their two year program for credit union leaders across North America focused on the three Is: <em>Ideas<\/em>, <em>Innovation<\/em>, and <em>Implementation<\/em>. It is my distinct honour to join my fellow members of the 2012 i3 cohort and I look forward to collaborating with them to move the movement forward and advance the cause of sustainable banking.<\/p>\n<p>And I gotta thank Matt Davis and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.filene.org\/people\/george-hofheimer\" title=\"George Hofheimer\">George Hofheimer<\/a> for their encouragement and support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am pleased to tell you that I am joining the Filene i3 program. What&#8217;s that? Well, Filene is an organization &#8220;dedicated to scientific and thoughtful analysis about issues affecting the future of consumer finance and credit unions&#8220;. Not the people who have a basement. Same family, different mission. i3 is their two year program [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[170,190,157],"class_list":["post-7053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-azaroff","tag-credit-union","tag-filene-i3"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p37qUH-1PL","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}