{"id":9364,"date":"2014-12-11T21:36:07","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T05:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/azaroff.com\/?p=9364"},"modified":"2025-07-04T08:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T15:12:09","slug":"my-experience-with-filene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/?p=9364","title":{"rendered":"My experience with Filene."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Filene published a blog post I co-wrote called <a title=\"Failure, Future and Cooperative Finance\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150318133507\/http:\/\/filene.org\/blog\/post\/failure-future-and-cooperative-finance\">Failure, Future and Cooperative Finance<\/a>. Here&#8217;s the story&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In August of 2012, I was so excited to be invited to <a title=\"Joining Filene i3.\" href=\"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/?p=7053\">participate in the Filene i3 program<\/a>, focused on ideas, innovation and implementation within credit unions. It was a real honour, and I was lucky enough to get to work with the amazing <a title=\"David Klavitter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/davidklavitter\/\">David Klavitter<\/a> of Dupaco Credit Union.<\/p>\n<p>He and I worked together on something called the <a title=\"Credit Union Well-Being Incentive Program\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filene.org\/reports\/nine-of-the-latest-ideas-from-filene-i3-spring-2013\">Credit Union Well-Being Incentive Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Along the way, although we loved all the people we met at Filene and what they stand for, we discovered what worked, and what didn&#8217;t work for us, about this prestigious program.<\/p>\n<p>David and I wrote a blog post about our experience and what sprung from it at our credit unions. Filene was kind and supportive enough to run that blog post. It&#8217;s called <a title=\"Failure, Future and Cooperative Finance\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150318133507\/http:\/\/filene.org\/blog\/post\/failure-future-and-cooperative-finance\">Failure, Future and Cooperative Finance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Filene published a blog post I co-wrote called Failure, Future and Cooperative Finance. Here&#8217;s the story&#8230; In August of 2012, I was so excited to be invited to participate in the Filene i3 program, focused on ideas, innovation and implementation within credit unions. It was a real honour, and I was lucky enough to [&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":[190,156,157,198],"class_list":["post-9364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-credit-union","tag-filene","tag-filene-i3","tag-innovation"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p37qUH-2r2","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9364","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=9364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16593,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9364\/revisions\/16593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}