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Alliant Credit Union Foundation provided financial assistance to charity related Fantasy Flights held during December at major airports across the country. The United Airlines Fantasy Flights, coordinated by employees of the airline, provided a joyous holiday experience for many seriously ill or disadvantaged children and people with disabilities.

Santa displays enlargement of a $1,500 check from Alliant’s Foundation to Santa’s Fantasy Flight in Chicago. Standing L to R: United Airlines Fantasy Flight coordinators Michelene Galuski and Margaret Bucaro; along with Alliant Credit Union employees Sandy Beckman, Special Services Supervisor and Fantasy Flight volunteer coordinator; Dorothy Skube, corporate counsel and Foundation director; Terence Powell, Retirement & Investment Services; Rob Russell, Marketing Dept. and Foundation director).

Fantasy Flights at various airports were actual flights or taxiway trips to "the North Pole", with passengers disembarking for visits with Santa Claus, great gifts, a festive lunch and other holiday activities. The grants from Alliant's Foundation were provided to help with these and/or other expenses related to the events. In all, the Foundation gave $12,000 via $1,500 grants for Fantasy Flights held at eight major airports in Chicago, Denver, Houston, Newark, Phoenix, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington, DC. The grants were presented to United Airlines officials by Alliant Credit Union employees in the various markets.

Laly Savoy of United Airlines receives the Foundation’s LAX Fantasy Flight donation, presented by several Alliant LA employees. Pictured with Ms. Savoy are: (L to R) Ana Munoz, Julie Pedone, Kia Herd and Marcos Magana. In all, Alliant Credit Union Foundation made eight $1,500 grants for Fantasy Flights at various airports.

Alliant Credit Union employees also volunteered to decorate United Airlines North Pole departure and arrival gates and helped in other ways at several major airports from coast to coast.

Alliant Credit Union Foundation is based in Chicago at the headquarters of Alliant Credit Union, located near O'Hare Airport at Touhy Avenue and Wolf Road. The Foundation, registered as a 501c3 not-for-profit corporation, was established in 2009 via a $4 million grant from Alliant Credit Union, which is America's sixth largest credit union based on asset size with over $8 billion in assets. The September 2011 issue of Money Magazine named Alliant Credit Union to its list of Best Banks of 2011. The credit union has locations in the Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Newark, NJ, San Francisco Bay, Tempe, AZ and Washington, DC areas.

United Airlines employee Debbie Wall holds the Foundation’s Newark Fantasy Flight donation. The check was presented by Alliant Newark Service Center employees Michael Vicidomini and Jessica Rivera.

Alliant Dulles Airport Service Center Manager Isabel Hidalgo presents Foundation’s Dulles Fantasy Flight grant to United’s William Watts

Alliant’s Denver Member Service Supervisor, Janice Fringer (left) presents Foundation donation check to Rhonda Patterson-Eachus of United Airlines, as United’s Susan Troyman looks on.