Financial Stability

Our Focus: Reduce poverty by promoting financial stability and independence.

Personal financial management skills are at the very core of healthy families, productive employees and communities. A basic understanding of money and credit – and how they work in today’s society, is crucial to functioning in the main-stream and a person’s ability to build wealth.
The ability to build wealth, acquire savings and home equity is what moves a person into the financial mainstream.  They increase family stability, encourage better consumer habits make a better employee and eventually increasing an individual’s stake in the health and wealth of their community – our community.

The 2010-2011 Annual Campaign distributed $373,462 to the following funded financial stability programs:

American Red Cross of Northwest Florida: Disaster Services
Catholic Charities of Northwest Florida: Bridges to Circles and Emergency Assistance Programs
Early Learning Coalition of Escambia County: Subsidized Child Care
FavorHouse of Northwest Florida: Domestic Violence Intervention
Northwest Florida Legal Services: Domestic Violence Program
The Salvation Army: Social Services & Basic Needs and Homeless Shelter
United Way of Escambia County: Financial Stability Coalition and 2-1-1 (information and referral hotline)