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Sarah Stone

VP Retail Experience, Excite Credit Union
BIO

Sarah Stone is the Director of Retail Experience for Excite Credit Union in North Carolina, overseeing retail branches, business development, and community relations. Sarah has worked in credit unions over the past decade. In late  

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Mar 5, 2025

Let’s Celebrate Wilmington’s Women Entrepreneurs

Wilmington is home to a thriving community of women entrepreneurs, and their success is part of a larger trend throughout the state. Recently, an influential report ranked North Carolina second in the ...

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Jan 7, 2025

New Year, Fresh Start: Essential Financial Resolutions for Wilmington Businesses

The start of a new year is a great time to set goals for success—not just for yourself, but for your business as well. Whether you’re a first-time entrepreneur or a seasoned member of the ...

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Cooperatives Principles: A Different Way of Doing Business

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Build, Maintain, and Grow Generational Wealth

No matter your family background, you can contribute to the financial future of your children and grandchildren by understanding the power of generational wealth.   Generational wealth is any a ...

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Jul 31, 2024

Life Lessons: Savings Accounts Are Great Teaching Tools

As a parent, you want to prepare your children for adulthood by teaching them life skills, positive habits, and good values. The best way to do this is through real-life, hands-on experiences. If you& ...

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Jun 4, 2024

Building Stronger Communities Through DEI

The world is beautifully diverse, filled with different cultures, languages, and perspectives. Celebrating this diversity isn't just the right thing to do—it's also a smart business move ...

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Apr 9, 2024

The Need for Greater Financial Literacy

Financial literacy isn’t something they teach in school, but they should. Understanding how to manage your day-to-day finances is an essential life skill everyone should master. Grasping th ...

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Mar 12, 2024

Excite Credit Union's Community Initiatives in Action

At Excite Credit Union, being “the community's credit union” is more than a tagline; it’s our commitment to community development that goes well beyond providing financial servic ...

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Jul 15, 2022

The Guiding Principles of a Credit Union

Can you believe that credit unions have been around for almost 200 years? And yet, as a young adult, I must admit I didn’t even know what a credit union was prior to applying for a teller positi ...

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Jun 24, 2022

70 Years of Improving Financial Access

It all started seventy years ago with a small group of visionary GE employees—help people afford life. We’re proud of our humble beginnings. We’ve stayed true to our founding princip ...

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Apr 26, 2022

How a Small Business Loan Can Help

As an entrepreneur or small business owner, it may be worthwhile to research small business loan financing options. There are many benefits to improving cash on hand: paying down existing debt, purcha ...

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Supporting Local Businesses Helps Communities Thrive

It is impossible not to hear about the importance of supporting small businesses.  But aside from it simply being a positive, feel-good story that media outlets realize will get attention, d ...

Financial
Mar 2, 2022

5 Topics for a Successful Employee Financial Wellness Program

Money woes are a leading cause of anxiety for many Americans. Depending on the severity, anxiety can have detrimental effects on a person’s health in the form of simple headaches and high blood ...

Financial
Mar 1, 2022

Building Bridges In Financial Deserts

Economic recessions, pandemics, and growing digital environments are forcing more physical banking locations to close, creating deserts in communities that desperately need financial representation. I ...

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