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“Best Day Ever” Event
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German American State Bank employees volunteered on Nov. 8 to clean up the park and flowerbeds. Pictured here are: (back row, from left) Tony Gasior, Scott Henze, Armond Hollins, April Perea, Stacey Kaysen, Bonnie Roszczewski, (front row, from left) Devin Woods, Tasha Wendorf, and Andrew Summers.
Local German American State Bank locations take part in Best Day Ever Event
Kasasa, Charlie Rocket, and Community Banks and Credit Unions Nationwide Exceed 300,000 acts of kindness during the volunteer event
Community banks and credit unions across the country joined together to kick off the Best Day Ever event, which continued through the weekend of Nov. 3-5. With their outpouring of kindness and community action, the original goal of 100,000 acts of kindness was exceeded within the opening hours. This is the first time commu-nity financial institutions have come together for such an event, demonstrating their local impact and the scale of their network.
Kasasa, which offers free reward checking accounts that have paid nearly $3 bil-lion in rewards exclusively through community banks and credit unions, and Char-lie Rocket’s Dream Machine partnered with hundreds of community banks and credit unions across the country to kick off the Best Day Ever event on Nov. 3. The week-end culminated with a cele-bration at the Dream Factory hosted by Charlie Rocket and Gabe Krajicek, CEO of Kasasa.
German American State Bank (GASB) proudly took part in this event on Nov. 3, which included staff from their Pecatonica, Winnebago, and other area locations as well.
Some of their wonderful acts of kindness to the com-munity included taking time to read to kindergarten and grade school classes at Ger-man Valley Elementary School, cleaning up the park and flower beds within the Pecatonica Park District, setting up the Winnebago Town Hall for the historical meeting, and helping out around Highland Community College doing things such as installing defibrillators around their campus.
Not only did they get down to work, they were also given red envelopes for the event that contained uplifting and kind affirmations within. Taking it a step further, GASB also put a small mone-tary amount in each one. The employee volunteers were given them and happily handed them out at random to people in the community throughout the day. One em-ployee, Armond Hollins, remarked how it felt special to be able to light up some-one’s day with a red enve-lope.
The Best Day Ever was a nationwide effort on behalf of Kasasa, Charlie Rocket, and hundreds of community banks and credit unions with the shared goal of reaching 100,000 acts of kindness in a single weekend. The cam-paign exceeded this goal with over 300,000 acts of kindness and tangibly impacted thou-sands of lives within small towns and big cities alike, leading to smiles all around, heartwarming gifts, encour-aging messages, and so much more.
GASB and their volunteers were part of hundreds of oth-er Best Day Ever events that occurred in cities and towns all across America.
Kasasa, which offers free reward checking accounts people love exclusively at community banks and credit unions, and Charlie Rocket, founder of the non-profit Dream Machine, designed the event as a way to demon-strate community banks’ and credit unions’ commitment to the people in their communi-ties. Community financial institutions preserve the vital human connection that is increasingly disappearing in the world of finance. This event also highlighted the scale of the Kasasa network of community banks and credit unions, which com-bined, represents the fourth largest branch banking net-work in the country.
“Community financial institutions may not have $2 billion marketing budgets like the Wells Fargos and Chases of the world,” said Krajicek. “However, they show up on an individual level, every day for the peo-ple in their communities. This event demonstrated how they are a vital part of their local economies and that one-on-one personal interactions matter. Pair this human con-nection with world class Kasasa products and you have something mega banks can’t touch. Together, we’re on a mission to change where Americans banks…back in their communities.”
“I love how many people turned out to spread kindness in their community,” said Rocket. “It shows that this is what the world needs right now.”
About Kasasa
Based in Austin, Texas, Kasasa promotes community banks and credit unions and inspires people to bank local-ly so they can do more good. An award-winning fintech and marketing services com-pany, Kasasa provides reward checking accounts people love, the first-ever loan with Take-Backs, and ongoing expert consulting services to community financial institu-tions. Kasasa serves hundreds of community financial insti-tutions nationwide, represent-ing over 3 million consumer bank accounts across 3,400+ branches in all 50 states. Since 2003, Kasasa financial institutions have given back nearly $3 billion in rewards to Kasasa account holders. For more information, visit www.kasasa.com, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, or LinkedIn.
About Charlie Rocket’s Dream Machine Foundation
The founder, Charlie Rocket, is a former music manager who was diagnosed with a brain tumor at the height of his career. He made the choice to return to his childhood dream of being an athlete. He ended up losing 125 lbs., completing an iron-man and reversing his brain tumor. Charlie now dedicates his life to his foundation, the Dream Machine, with the aim of becoming a new type of millionaire: one that makes a million dreams come true. For more information, visit www.dreammachineusa.org and www.instagram.com/dreammachineusa or www.instagram.com/charlie.
