Common Cents

On Saturday, June 17th, RISE offered our Common Cents training FREE to the general public. 

Common Cents, a workplace financial education program, was launched in 2007 in response to broad based concern about poor credit and bankruptcy issues in the Memphis area.  Common Cents traditionally is offered to area employers for their employees whether salary or hourly workers the gift of financial literacy.  The opportunity increases productivity, decrease absenteeism and create greater workforce productivity.  More than 4,000 Memphis-based employees from 70 companies/organizations have successfully completed the curriculum

Our curriculum features topics  for employees to choose from such as banking and budgeting. For this class we added: 

1. Determining your money personality
2. Developing a spending plan
3. Filling in money gaps
4. How to change poor spending habits
5. Determining a short financial goal and determining what action are needed to achieve it.
6. On-line Banking

The training took place at the Poplar/White Station Library. Those in attendance represented a cross section of the Memphis community. We are able to reach a greater population due to donors like you!  Thank you for allowing RISE to do what we love.  RISE's mission is to empower people to become self-sufficient by building and sustaining human and financial assets.  Please consider donating to help us continue to reach our goal of educating every child, adult and senior in the Memphis area on financial literacy.