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Jenna Johnson, Marketing & Development Director, Origin SC
Kristin Bastian, Financial Education Manager, Origin SC
Jenna Johnson, Marketing & Development Director, Origin SC
Kristin Bastian, Financial Education Manager, Origin SC
“In America today, we are living in two nations. I live about 20 blocks from ‘the corner’ I described in my 1998 book about West Baltimore, which is avoided by most of the city. But it’s another America entirely. It takes a lot of effort to make the journey across the chasm that separates them, but that must be our work.”
Fostering financial skills in rural Alaska
Debe Mahoney, Executive Director, NeighborWorks Alaska
Challenge: Alaska's native cultures span tens of thousands of years with a rich history of subsistence and affinity for community. However, the state's economy is changing, and both urban and rural areas are reassessing their models for economic and community sustainability.
Financial-management program facilitates independent living
Albert Epps has been a client of NeighborWorks network member Origin SC since 1998. He was one of the first 200 clients to participate in its Representative Payee Program that offers financial management assistance to individuals whose physical or mental illness restricts their ability to manage their own money.
Centsible Families: A comprehensive approach to financial literacy and asset building
Matthew Manning, HomeOwnership Center Director, AHEAD, Inc.
Nonprofit takes homeownership education into prison
The comfort and security of owning your own home should be accessible to everyone, believes Robert Corley, executive director of NeighborWorks Southern Mass. And to him, that’s more than just proverbial saying on a wall.
Get to know a VISTA: Anna Jen
Anna Jen is a former NeighborWorks AmeriCorps VISTA alumna from Fresno, California who served in Roseburg, Oregon at NeighborWorks Umpqua from 2012-2013.
Bridging the gap
Bill Bynum, CEO, Hope Enterprise Corporation
Ed Sivak, Chief Policy and Communications Officer, Hope Enterprise Corporation
Payday loans are bad deals for consumers. That's why NeighborWorks is excited to see that Google announced it would no longer accept ads from payday lenders. These ads attracted financially troubled consumers and trapped them in unexpectedly long-term bad deals for short-term money.
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