Caroline Sande stood in front of the graduates of the Bridge to Culinary program at their December 9th ceremony in Roxbury as a prime example of someone who made the most of the opportunity she’d been given. Just six months
The pilot version of Boston Saves, the city’s new children’s savings account (CSA) program, rolled out eye-level with its beneficiary audience – kindergarteners – in early November to teach them about saving money. At Roosevelt K-8 School in Hyde Park, Miss Money and the Coins
Looking for a new job or to learn about resources such as the free financial coaching offered by the Roxbury Center for Financial Empowerment? The RCFE will be hosting a free Employment and Resource fair on November 16 from 10
Before the Office of Financial Empowerment (OFE) begins preparing for the 2017 tax season, we wanted to share our 2016 results. In 2016, the OFE’s Boston Tax Help Coalition operated 37 free tax preparation sites throughout Boston. These sites opened
In Boston today, 17% of households live in poverty but far more (46%) are financially vulnerable. These liquid asset poor households do not have enough savings to live even at the poverty level for three months if they were to have
When they walk into Maria Chavez’s Boston Housing Authority (BHA) office, many public housing residents come fatigued by the challenges of poverty, stress, and the uphill battle to improve their situation. Maria embraces them – anyone who enters her office,
The National League of Cities (NLC) has invited Boston and four other cities to participate in a new Children’s Savings Account (CSA) learning collaborative cohort. This will enhance and support Boston’s own CSA pilot program that is expected to launch
On June 20 the Mayor’s Office of Workforce Development (OWD) partnered with United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley to host a panel discussion on Boston’s labor market. The panel explored findings identified in Boston’s Labor Market Report, released by
Local experts will gather to discuss workforce and education development strategies and findings of recent BRA Labor Market Report. Mayor Walsh’s Office of Workforce Development (OWD) will partner with United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley to host a
Communities across the United States have started launching children’s savings account (CSA) programs to help families save for their children’s college futures. But Boston’s CSA program, whose pilot is set to launch in Fall 2016, stands out in an important