Supporting Education

Arrowhead Foundation
The Arrowhead Foundation is a non-profit trust started by Arrowhead Credit Union in 1999 for the purpose of providing educational scholarships in the communities we serve. Since its inception the Foundation has awarded over $400,000 in scholarships. The Foundation is funded by Arrowhead Credit Union and through direct donations of Arrowhead employees. In May 2009, 64 high school seniors from San Bernardino and Riverside counties were chosen by the Arrowhead Foundation Board of Trustees based on their application and essay for awards that totaled $55,250.

Alliance for Education
The Alliance for Education is a San Bernardino County partnership with business, labor, government, community and education to align common goals in order to produce an educated and skilled community that will provide a qualified workforce. Working in collaboration with these partners, the Alliance has the potential of impacting more than 61,000 high school students, which is approximately one-third of the county’s high school student population.

Mayor’s Education Round Table
Each year outstanding teachers are recognized in San Bernardino with the prestigious Golden Apple Awards. The awards are sponsored by the San Bernardino Education Round table, which was formed in March 1988 as a collaboration between local educational institutions and the mayor of San Bernardino. The purpose of the Golden Apple is to recognize outstanding educators and support staff of San Bernardino's three major educational institutions – San Bernardino Unified School District, Valley College and California State University, San Bernardino. ACU is a proud corporate sponsor saluting the efforts of these exceptional teachers.

Science and Technology Education Partnership (STEP)
STEP was created to bridge the skills gap between K- 12 students and the high technology industry needs. STEP produces a student conference each year to ignite the imaginations of students to pursue careers in math, science and technology. There is also a teacher conference that provides hands-on training to K-12 teachers, ensuring that they have the necessary tools to keep students competitive in the global marketplace. ACU's corporate sponsorship assists in making science and math opportunities available to students and teachers each year in the Inland Empire.

El Sol Neighborhood Educational Center
Founded in 1991, the El Sol Neighborhood Educational Center is a grassroots non-profit organization providing English as a Second Language (ESL) classes free of charge to the Hispanic community on the west side of San Bernardino. Through their Community Based English Tutoring Program, services are provided for multi-level ESL students with 80% receiving certificates for their proficiency in using English for spoken and written communication. ACU’s sponsorship assists in allowing these classes to continue throughout the summer when funding is not available through the San Bernardino Unified School District.

Temecula Student of the Month
ACU is a sponsor of this program that recognizes outstanding high school students in the Temecula area with a monthly honors luncheon. In addition, ACU also provided two $500 scholarships awarded at the end of the school year to the Student of the Year honorees.