Event Calendar

Analyze the role of cultural, social, and emotional influences on feelings and beliefs regarding credit. Understand credit building as an essential and viable activity to overall self-sufficiency. Participants will learn how to strategically build credit.

Identity thieves can drain assets from your existing accounts, open new accounts in your name, apply for credit, and charge purchases. Seniors, learn how to protect your credit! #creditawareness

Safeguarding Yourself:A Workshop on Identity Protection

Your identity makes up who you are and identity theft is a crime. This type of theft consists of someone stealing key pieces of your personal information (your name, driver’s license number, Social Security Number, account numbers, etc.) for fraudulent use. This Personal Identifiable Information, or PII, is data that could potentially be used to identify you. Safeguarding your PII is more important than ever. In this workshop, you’ll learn about the latest scams and how to help protect yourself from them, ways your PII can be compromised, strategies to help keep your data safe and, most importantly, what you can do if your identity is compromised.

This class will be lead by a volunteer instructor, Dan Brennen, AVP, Organizational Financial Wellness Consultant of PNC Bank.

This is a virtual class. Registration is required. Prior to the class, registrants will be emailed a link to participate. The link will include computer and phone call options. No account necessary! Can’t make the class? The recording will be available after the class. Or, register to receive an email with the recording

This class is part of Credit Awareness Month. This is a public education campaign to help consumers better manage their personal finances through free, non-commercial education.

Analyze the role of cultural, social, and emotional influences on feelings and beliefs regarding credit. Understand credit building as an essential and viable activity to overall self-sufficiency. Participants will learn how to strategically build credit.

Learn about the basics of credit by learning the 4 C’s of credit. This class is for teens and young adults. The presenter is Jacqueline Buck Horton of Sterling Bank. #creditawareness

This is a virtual class. Registration is required. Prior to the class, registrants will be emailed a link to participate. The link will include computer and phone call options. No account necessary! Can’t make the class? The recording will be available after the class. Or, register to receive an email with the recording.

This class is part of Credit Awareness Month. This is a public education campaign to help consumers better manage their personal finances through free, non-commercial education.

Join Certified Financial Planner David Foster and Financial Wellbeing Coach Reginald Garth for a webinar on asset building and creating personal and generational wealth. Presented as part of Credit Awareness Month.

Learn reasons why having good credit is important, what’s in your credit report, how to get your credit report for free, and dispute incorrect information.

Small business owners have been hit hard during the pandemic. During this session, experts from the Small Business Development Center will share information on how to rebuild your credit, access small business loans, and position your business for success during the recovery (appropriate for current and prospective small business owners).

This class will be lead by a volunteer instructor, Lynette Sledge, of the Small Business Development Center.

This is a virtual class. Registration is required. Prior to the class, registrants will be emailed a link to participate. The link will include computer and phone call options. No account necessary!  Can’t make the class? The recording will be available after the class. Or, register to receive an email with the recording.

This class is part of Credit Awareness Month. This is a public education campaign to help consumers better manage their personal finances through free, non-commercial education. You can find out more about the Financial Empowerment Coalition in the St. Louis Region HERE!

This workshop will provide you with the tools for budgeting, savings, managing debt, and increasing your credit score. Achieve your financial goals with Beyond Housing! #creditawareness

Join us for “What Now?!: Capitalizing on Opportunities After the Pandemic”. All things come to an end and where there is an ending there is a new beginning. What is your new beginning post-pandemic? Are you looking to budget better? Save more? Have more streams of income?

Let Kyra Jefferson, of the Beyond Housing team, in partnership with the St. Louis Regional Financial Empowerment Coalition help you with the answers to those questions. This is a no-cost workshop that will provide you with the tools for budgeting, savings, managing debt, and increasing your credit score. Don’t miss out on your opportunity to achieve your financial goals!

This is a virtual class. Registration is required. Prior to the class, registrants will be emailed a link to participate. The link will include computer and phone call options. No account necessary! Can’t make the class? The recording will be available after the class. Or, register to receive an email with the recording.

This class is part of Credit Awareness Month. This is a public education campaign to help consumers better manage their personal finances through free, non-commercial education.

Join Family Resources and Community Connections Incorporated for “Your Season for Financial Wellness – Protecting and Repairing Credit.”

Contact Information: Linda J. Mackey, Family Resources and Community Connections Incorporated, 314 397-7325, ljoycemackey@frccstl.org

Gain an understanding of different types of credit scores and how they are impacted by consumer behavior. Discover the intricacies of credit reports and scores. Learn how to use them strategically as tools for credit building.

Gain an understanding of different types of credit scores and how they are impacted by consumer behavior. Discover the intricacies of credit reports and scores. Learn how to use them strategically as tools for credit building.

North County Police Cooperative Identity Theft presentation to the citizens in the 24:1 Community.  Presenters Jacqueline Buck Horton VP Community Development Sterling Bank and Corey Hawkins-Byrd Community Engagement Officer.

¿Cuál es la diferencia entre refinanciar y financiamiento convencional? Obtenga más información sobre los programas de asistencia para los depósitos. Explore el proceso de obtener una hipoteca desde la aplicación hasta la aprobación.

Attend a FREE Home Buying Workshop to learn:
• How to achieve affordable and successful homeownership!
• Down Payment Assistance Programs that are available
• How to get a FREE credit analysis?
• What documentation you need to be approved for a loan?

Learn steps and techniques to set attainable goals and understand how your values and external influences affect those financial decisions to reach your dreams.

Learn steps and techniques to set attainable goals and understand how your values and external influences affect those financial decisions to reach your dreams.

This class will cover the following topics:  Why is building good credit important; What is in a credit report; How to access a credit report; Strategies to establish or rebuild credit. With a short Q and A discussion following.

Has your credit taken a hit since the pandemic? Are you wanting to build it back up, and maybe learn some money management skills in the process? The Housing Partnership, backed by the St. Louis Regional Financial Empowerment Coalition, can help you on that journey. At this workshop, we will give you tools you can use to empower yourself to improve your credit, manage your debt, create a spending plan, and save money. Join us to get financially fit!

Develop an understanding of how to build positive credit using safe and affordable credit building products.

Develop an understanding of how to build positive credit using safe and affordable credit building products.

Presented by the Office of Financial Empowerment

Learn about tools for budgeting, saving, managing debt and increasing your credit score to achieve your financial goals during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Adults. Registration required. Participants will receive Zoom information via email immediately after registering. A recording of this virtual program will be posted to YouTube within three business days.

North County Police Cooperative

Identity Theft What to Know What to Do

North County Police Cooperative Identity Theft presentation to the citizens in the 24:1 Community.  Presenters Jacqueline Buck Horton VP Community Development Sterling Bank and Corey Hawkins-Byrd Community Engagement Officer.

Join Financial Wellbeing Coach, Reginald Garth as he moderates a forum on the importance of financial empowerment for Black Men. The panel discussion will center on revolutionizing thoughts and behaviors towards better economics, breaking the chains of generational debt, and how to establish generational wealth.

This promises to be an exciting and informative forum that you do not want to miss. It will be presented in person and virtual via Zoom. Be sure to register today!

Featured panelists are:

• Dart Ford, Enterprise Bank & Trust
• Koran Bolden, Bold Moves Agency
• Adam Layne, City Treasurer
• Neal Richardson, SLDC Executive Director
• Farrakahn Shegog, Urban League Federation of Block Units

Join Financial Wellbeing Coach, Reginald Garth as he moderates a forum on the importance of financial empowerment for Black Men. The panel discussion will center on revolutionizing thoughts and behaviors towards better economics, breaking the chains of generational debt, and how to establish generational wealth.

This will be presented in person and virtual via Zoom. Covid protocols will be enforced and catered food will be provided for those attending in person. In-Person attendance will be limited to 50. Register today at one of the available links listed above.

TIME: 6:00pm – 7:30pm

LOCATION: O’Fallon Park YMCA 4343 W Florissant Ave St. Louis MO,  63115

VIRTUAL REGISTRATION: https://bit.ly/2YU3xYU

IN-PERSON REGISTRATION: https://bit.ly/39LCu4g

For more information contact: Reginald Garth, 314-613-3196, reginald.garth@operationhope.org

Learn how to obtain your credit report.  Find out what is on your credit report and how to dispute inaccurate information.

Presented by the Missouri Small Business Development Center with St. Louis County Library. Learn how to rebuild your credit, access small business loans, and position your business for success during the recovery. Current and prospective small business owners are encouraged to attend. Adults. Registration required. Participants will receive Zoom information via email immediately after registering.

This workshop will review the loan process, and help you decide whether you are ready to buy a home.

Volunteer Instructor: LaTonya Jackson, Bank of America

Participants will learn strategies for managing debt with an eye towards credit building. Identify different types of debt management strategies that can be employed alongside, or in preparation for credit building.

Participants will learn strategies for managing debt with an eye towards credit building. Identify different types of debt management strategies that can be employed alongside, or in preparation for credit building.

Learn how to develop a spending and savings plan to make better financial decisions to gain control of your finances be able to improve your financial future.

Learn how to develop a spending and savings plan to make better financial decisions to gain control of your finances be able to improve your financial future.

Participants in this class will learn the different ways to use your credit cards and strategies for maximizing your credit building goals while staying within a budget. Learn to prevent common mistakes made with impulse shopping.

Participants will learn why it is important to have a spending plan, what their relationship with money is, to create SMART goals, and how to track their spending.

The Creative Arts Contest is the youth focused fall event sponsored by the St. Louis Regional Financial Empowerment Coalition. The purpose of the contest is to create age appropriate awareness about credit and financial matters. 6^th– 8^th students are encouraged to answer this year’s Credit Awareness Month question with an original song and accompanying video. This is a creative opportunity to engage students in a way that gives voice to their opinions on credit, financial and socially relevant matters in a very tangible way.

The Creative Arts Contest finalists’ awards ceremony will broadcast Live at 6pm October 29 from the Money Smart St. Louis Facebook and YouTube page.