National Endowment for Financial Education
No matter what your current financial condition is or what financial mistakes you’ve made, Your Spending, Your Savings, Your Future: A Beginner’s Guide to Financial Readiness can help you bring about positive change and realize financial stability.
The 80-page booklet, published as a public service by the National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE), offers tips, tools, and techniques for plugging spending leaks, overcoming stumbling blocks, managing consumer debt, getting help with credit, committing to save money, planning for retirement, and taking charge of your financial future.
To help Americans realize their dream of owning a home, NEFE and the Fannie Mae Foundation partnered on a guide entitled Knowing and Understanding Your Credit.
The guide provided easy-to-digest information on how to establish and maintain good credit when preparing to buy a home. It included practical tips about credit reports and scoring, improving bad credit, and creating a credit history to help first-time homebuyers make their dream of homeownership come true.
Knowing and Understanding Your Credit was available to the public in English or Spanish and seven other languages.
Financial Planning Association and National Foundation for Credit Counseling
A poor credit record can create a major roadblock to achieving many financial goals, from buying a house to landing a job. Fortunately, poor credit can be repaired. To help consumers improve their credit records, the Financial Planning Association (FPA™), National Foundation for Credit Counseling, Inc.® (NFCC), and NEFE developed Overcoming the Credit Barrier: Clearing the Way to Your Financial Goals, a brochure that offered a step-by-step approach to managing credit.
The guide provided easy-to-digest information on how to establish and maintain good credit when preparing to buy a home. It included practical tips about credit reports and scoring, improving bad credit, and creating a credit history to help first-time homebuyers make their dream of homeownership come true.
National College Transition Network/World Education Inc.
Deciding to go to college as an adult comes with an assortment of concerns beyond determining which school to attend and what to study. Will you continue to work while attending school? What will you do about child care? What is the best way to meet everyday living expenses and pay fees for tuition and books?
To help answer these questions and more, the National College Transition Network (NCTN) and World Education Inc. partnered with NEFE to develop Mapping Your Financial Journey: Helping Adults Plan for College. Targeted primarily at low-income adults, adults with GEDs or other nontraditional diplomas, and adults learning English, the 56-page booklet delved into such topics as understanding and mapping your goals, taking a financial inventory, avoiding money pitfalls, coming to terms with the true costs of college, navigating financial aid, and making the most of college while working.
For more information, visit NCTN at http://www.collegetransition.org or its student Web site at http://www.collegeforadults.org.
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