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Advocating for Excellence in K-12 Education, Financial Literacy ~ Making Meaning of Your Money

OFFKM leader volunteers with Junior Achievement

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Our Father’s Family Keeper Ministries is committed to seeing our youth succeed and supporting efforts to see them excel.

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We recently has the opportunity to do outreach with youth through the Junior Achievement Program, which taught Benton Harbor’s STEAM Academy elementary school students  job-readiness skills  and taught them about entrepreneurship and financial literacy.

Here, Sis. Bianca May, president of Our Father’s Keeper Ministries, is pictured with some other Junior Achievement volunteers who helped with the Junior Achievement Program in Benton Harbor schools.

Financial Literacy ~ Making Meaning of Your Money

Make a change with financial literacy classes

It’s Spring, but you still haven’t forgotten the New Year’s promise you made to yourself to understand your money better . . . and that was do more with it than save it.

You’re just in time for the “Making Changes” classes on Financial Literacy coming soon to the Cass District Library in Cassopolis.  The classes run on Monday and Thursday evenings, 5:30 to 8 p.m., May 16 to June 2, 2016.

For more information, contact the Cass District Library at (269) 357-7822.

Pre-registration is suggested; the classes are free and a small meal will be served before the sessions start.

Financial Literacy ~ Making Meaning of Your Money

Looking to buy a home?

Are you wondering whether now is the time or if you’re even financially able yet to buy a home?

Snipping art for OFFKM homebuyer classes June 2016.JPGHave no fear ~  the Cass District Library plans to clear up any questions you may have through a Homeownership Class planned to help you better understand and prepare for the home-buying process.

The three classes run in June 2016 and are free; a small meal will be served before each session.  They run 5 to 8 p.m. on June 6, June 9 and June 13, 2016.

These classes are part of the “Making Changes” financial literacy classes planned by Cass District Library.

To participate, interested people must  pre-register:  Contact Clarise Murphy or Jennifer Ray at the Cass District Library at (269) 357-7822.