Moving from Debt to Assets
Location
Boston
United States
42° 21' 30.3516" N, 71° 3' 35.1828" W
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A groundbreaking financial education and empowerment program that has helped more than four hundred families to build strong financial futures. Classes in financial education, which includes topics such as goal-setting, creating a budget, how to save money, understanding and using credit, and wise use of banking services. One session is devoted to a workshop on new opportunities and obligations regarding health insurance under the new law that GBIO to helped pass.
Reason:
What makes the Moving from Debt to Assets program a groundbreaking national model is: * Its combination of multiple components – It is not just classes, but counseling, peer support groups, and grants, all designed to have the maximum impact, and * Its delivery through institutions that are part of the fabric of people’s lives – It works through the 54 institutions that are members of GBIO, institutions that can support the participants in the changes they have chosen to make through the program, and * Its scale – Launching 26 classes in four years, it has touched the lives of more than 400 families
What makes the Moving from Debt to Assets program a groundbreaking national model is: * Its combination of multiple components – It is not just classes, but counseling, peer support groups, and grants, all designed to have the maximum impact, and * Its delivery through institutions that are part of the fabric of people’s lives – It works through the 54 institutions that are members of GBIO, institutions that can support the participants in the changes they have chosen to make through the program, and * Its scale – Launching 26 classes in four years, it has touched the lives of more than 400 families
Organization: Moving from Debt to Assets
First name: Joel
Last name: Schwartz
City: Boston
Country: United States
