Financial Literacy is Key
Our Financial Literacy Program is a very important program for our people in the inner city. In spite of all of the strides people of color have made over the past 50 years in America, it remains harder for blacks to get the credit they need in everyday life. The current credit scoring model ends up eliminating many African Americans and young people that are otherwise credit worthy, making them in effect "credit invisible". When a person is credit invisible it becomes harder for them to get started, or to move forward after and respond to life's challenges. Once a month we partner up with finance & credit professionals for our program where we help people in our community understand and effectively use credit, build credit and repair credit. We also teach people in our communities how to budget and invest funds as well.
This activity is conducted by Credit Counselors, Financial Advisors & the Financial Literacy Team of the organization.
This program furthers our exempt purpose by creating a foundation for self sufficiency using the mudroots concept points of Self & Economic Accountability
