Is your financial house in order? The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has some great tips on helping you have control of your finances during financial awareness month. You can determine your financial health by finding the answers to these questions: What are your sources of income? Do you know how you spend your money?
“Shawn’s goal after nursing school was to buy a home. The mother of three young children was tired of renting and paying someone else’s mortgage,” said Tammy Edwards, WIN’s HUD-certified housing counselor. The two met in October of 2023 after Shawn had attended WIN’s homebuyer class. It was there that she learned that WIN provided
“I just show up, that’s half the job,” said long-time Working In Neighborhoods board leader Ellen Frankenberg, Ph.D. In reality, Frankenberg does far more than show up. A tireless connector, Frankenberg, a retired family psychologist, has held numerous leadership roles in her more than 40-year volunteer career, serving as board chair, vice chair, and chairing
Sixty-four percent of Americans receive a tax refund. What can you do with yours? The FDIC offers some options that can help you meet your short and long-term goals. Many people use tax refunds to make large purchases they might not have the cash for at other times of the year. A refund can also
A demolition project on campus that was on WIN’s wish list for over a decade is now complete thanks to a generous Sharonville company. In February, the John R. Jurgensen Company generously donated the labor and equipment to level a century-old structure on WIN’s campus. Built in 1910, for former church served as the meeting
For Devoe Sherman, a single father of two young daughters, the experience of buying a home “was like going through a storm ... you don’t know what you don’t know," exclaimed Sherman. He used WIN's free, one-on-one HUD-certified housing counseling program to "get to a brighter day." Sherman wanted a home for his family, but he didn’t
The South Cumminsville Community Garden (SCCG) was established seven years ago to provide a source of healthy food, to reutilize vacant residential land, create space for neighbors to gather, and to beautify the neighborhood. Neighborhood residents recognized that a community garden could address lack of fresh food access and poor health
Did you know that 65% of the families Working In Neighborhoods serves are single-mothers with children? Of all single-parent families in the U.S., single mothers make up the majority, and out of 12.2 million single parent families in 2012, more than 80% were headed by single mothers. Single parent women are raising 20 million
