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#Friday Follow: “Communicating Family Finances”
Ashley LeBaron is a family finance researcher at the University of Arizona. As a researcher, she runs statistical tests and writes papers focusing on how money influences couple relationships and how parents teach their kids about money. She and her colleagues were recently published in the latest issue of the...
January 25, 2019
Read More >Make 2019 the Year You Invest in Impact
Commit to high standards, capacity building, and lasting impact – for the client, for the coach, and for the community. Over the last 4 years, organizations and funders have invested in Accredited Financial Counselor (AFC®) and Financial Fitness Coach (FFC®) training and certification to better support initiatives that create lasting impact. As...
January 22, 2019
Read More >#FridayFollow: Waking Up for Financial and Social Change
Judy Polyne, AFC® is a financial coach and educator, coaching clients towards their financial goals. Through her work as an adjunct professor at New York University (NYU), as well as with local nonprofit organizations, Judy teaches people what they need to understand financial wellness and how to build a brighter financial...
January 18, 2019
Read More >Support those affected by the government shutdown
Let AFCPE raise awareness for the work you are doing to support furloughed workers! The federal government shutdown is now the longest in American history, leaving more than 800,000 government employees working without pay or placed on unpaid leave or furlough. The loss of a paycheck is leaving many individuals and...
January 16, 2019
Read More >#Friday Follow: Contribution Through Career Path
Dr. HanNa Lim, PhD is an assistant professor at Kansas State University researching and teaching personal finance. Her research focus includes college students’ financial wellness and the effects of family relationships on financial behavior. At the 2018 AFCPE Symposium, Dr. Lim and her colleague Frank Magwegwe won the Outstanding Symposium...
January 11, 2019
Read More >#ResearchWednesday – Serving Underserved Populations: The Incarcerated
Though there is much attention paid to overcrowded prisons, criminal justice reform, and recidivism, little has been done to address how men and women who have experienced incarceration relate to money. There is so much not known that it’s difficult to know where to start the conversation. In my recent...
January 09, 2019
Read More >#FridayFollow: “The Money Lady”
At the 2018 AFCPE Symposium, Madeleine Greene was presented the Distinguished Fellow of the Year award. Her acceptance of the award was followed by an emotional, yet empowering, speech telling stories of her time as AFC®. As a true pioneer in the AFCPE community, we thought it was only right...
January 04, 2019
Read More >#Friday Follow: One Class. One Spark. The Career.
Ryan Law, AFC® is the Director of the Money Management Resource Center (MMRC) at Utah Valley University. Through the center, volunteer peer Financial Coaches educate students, faculty and staff through one-on-one counseling sessions and presentations on campus. When Ryan’s not working at the MMRC, he’s teaching courses as part of the...
December 21, 2018
Read More >Resilience Starts with Financial Preparedness
Disasters and emergencies happen often with little or no warning – whether it is a fire in your house or a massive hurricane, the unexpected can take a toll on your financial planning. Being financially prepared helps disaster survivors to bounce back much more quickly from a disaster, yet research...
December 18, 2018
Read More >6 Steps to Stay on Track Financially During Times of Separation
Times of separation are hard on a family and relationships in many ways. One of the most challenging aspects of separation is how to handle the finances – how to budget and continue to make progress toward your financial goals. Service members (SM) experience this challenge on a regular basis...
December 17, 2018
Read More >#FridayFollow – Investigating a Deep Connection for Economic Justice
At the 2018 AFCPE Symposium, Lucia Reed, AFC® and her colleague George Reuter received the Outstanding Symposium Practitioners’ Forum Award for “Delivering Financial Counseling to Families with low Incomes through the Federal Government’s Largest Wealth-Building Program for Families with Low Income”. Lucia is a financial coach for Compass Working Capital in...
December 14, 2018
Read More >Coaching Your Clients: How a High Savings Rate Beats Juiced Market Returns
Many financial coaches and advisors report difficulty in working to improve their clients’ consumption patterns for the purpose of increasing their savings rates. One helpful approach in this endeavor is to provide concrete evidence of the future value that a client will receive by improving his or her consumption habits today. Compound growth...
December 10, 2018
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