Partners Federal Credit Union

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Partners Federal Credit Union is a federally chartered credit union with corporate headquarters in Anaheim, California. The not-for-profit financial cooperative offers membership to employees and cast members of The Walt Disney Company and their family members. As of August 2006, the credit union had three branches, over 41,000 members and in excess of $260 million in assets.

Partners FCU logo.

1 History
2 Membership Eligibility
3 Corporate Officers
4 External links

[edit] History

The credit union was formed in 1968 at the request of a group of Disneyland park cast members, and when first chartered was called the DRC Federal Credit Union. DRC was an acronym for the Disneyland Recreational Club, which was a precursor to the Disneyland Resort's current Cast Activities department. The offices moved a number of times before relocating off Disneyland's traditional premises: The DRC building in the 1970s was a double-wide "temporary" building, externally decorated with contemporary Studio look with planter boxes and wood exterior. It was located in the center of the employees backstage area, east of Main Street USA, west of the original park's Administration Building and south of the current location of Space Mountain (what was then called the Temporary Tomorrowland Stage). Sometime before the end of 1977, the building was moved to the area just inside of the tall chainlink fence of Harbor Blvd and a bit north of the original entry (what Disneyland Security called Harbor House) for the employees parking lot that was on the east side of the original property.

In the 1970s, DRC Federal Credit Union changed its name to Disneyland Employees Federal Credit Union. In the 1980s the name was changed once again to Partners Federal Credit Union.

[edit] Membership Eligibility

Originally, membership in Partners FCU was limited to Walt Disney Company employees working in Orange County, CA. When the Walt Disney Company took over management of the RMS Queen Mary in Long Beach, California in 1988, employees working for that attraction were added to the field of membership. In 2001, the field of membership for Partners FCU was expanded to cover any employee or Cast Member working for the Walt Disney Company in the United States.