Strengthen Your Financial Future

The Boston EITC Campaign, with the City of Boston and Mayor Menino, is launching a new program called Strengthen Your Financial Future. It will be offered through three Campaign sites: DotWell’s Codman Square Technical Center in Dorchester, the Roxbury Resource Center in Roxbury, and ABCD’s Tremont Street location in downtown Boston. We will be providing financial coaching sessions for participants based on the foundation of five key services:

• Credit advising
• Budgeting
• Banking information
• Benefits screening
• Referral assistance

Since this effort will be very volunteer driven, this is where we hope you can help out! We are seeking committed volunteers who have both a knowledge in this area and willingness to work with participants on an in-depth basis.

The Strengthen Your Financial Future Program will employ teams of professionally trained Asset Building Volunteers at three of the Campaign’s partner locations.The Asset Building Volunteer will offer individual coaching sessions year-round to improve participant’s financial strength.

Asset Building Volunteers will receive training from a Certified Educator in Personal Finance during two half-day training sessions starting in late September, after which volunteers will be asked to work for two hours a week during the off-season (October-December and then April-September).

If you are interested in serving as an Asset Building Volunteer, please return the completed application to Jessica Cook at the Boston EITC Campaign.

 

Any questions or comments can be directed to Jessica Cook at jessica.cook.jcs@cityofboston.gov

Thank you very much for your interest in volunteering. In order to apply to the program as a Financial Coach, please follow the following steps:

1. Open up the Financial Coach Application document below. It is available in both Word format and PDF format. If you do not have the Adobe PDF Reader program you can download it for free from this site.
2. Read through the all of the information.
3. Fill out the contact information and questionnaire to the best of your ability.
4. Send the application to program coordinator, Jessica Cook. You can do this by email at jessica.cook.jcs@cityofboston.gov, by fax, attention to Jessica Cook, at (617)918-5415 or by standard mail at:

Jessica Cook

43 Hawkins St.

Boston, MA 02114

ABCD
178 Tremont Street, Boston
Mondays through Fridays from 9-5, over the phone
Phone: 617-348-6000

DotWell
450 Washington Street, Dorchester
Wednesdays from 6-8 pm, face-to-face
Phone: 617-822-8171

Roxbury Resource Center
2201 Washington Street, Roxbury
Thursdays from 4-8 pm, face-to-face
Phone: 617-989-9131