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Credit Unions often form cooperatives among themselves to provide services to members. A Credit Union Service Organization (CUSO) is generally a for-profit subsidiary of one or more credit unions formed for this purpose U.S. credit unions can be chartered by either the federal government ("federal credit unions") or by a state. Get addresses maps and business hours for ATMs and credit union locations. Credit unions differ from banks and other financial institutions in that the members who have accounts in the credit union are the owners of the credit union and they elect their board of directors in a democratic one-person-one-vote system regardless of the amount of money invested in the credit union. CUNA (Credit Union National Association) which has a place of location in Washington D.C. and Madison Wisconsin is the premier national trade association serving America's credit unions. Modern credit union history dates to 1852 when Franz Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch consolidated the learning from two pilot projects one in Eilenburg and the other in Delitzsch in Germany into what are generally recognized as the first credit unions in the world.