New experiences for volunteer and students alike at El Puente

New experiences for volunteer and students alike at El Puente Something special always happens when volunteers venture into schools and communities new to them. That’s because students like Jasmin at El Puente High School always [...]

Our community’s financial literacy leaders for 2016-17

Our community’s financial literacy leaders for 2016-2017 We appreciate every single one of our volunteers. It's not hyperbole: you are the lifeblood of our organization, the ones who make the impact happen in classrooms, for [...]

Money talks: Students share the power of financial mentoring

Money talks: Students share the power of financial mentoring We recently celebrated our fourth successful year of Money Coach, the one-of-a-kind financial mentoring program as schools and community sites in Milwaukee and Waukesha. At a [...]

Financial literacy as a component of community justice

Financial literacy as a component of community justice by Brenda Campbell, President and CEO, Make A Difference – Wisconsin “The opposite of poverty is not wealth. In too many places, the opposite of poverty is [...]

Money Coach Teens Invest Financial Skills Back into Their Families

Money Coach Teens Invest Financial Skills Back into Their Families Students with a financial mentor don’t just improve their lives – they invest those skills back into the needs and futures of their loved ones. [...]

With Futures Right Around the Corner, Reagan H.S. Seniors are Financially Ready

With Futures Right Around the Corner, Reagan H.S. Seniors are Financially Ready Financial fundamentals mean more than budgets and banking. For seniors at Ronald Reagan College Preparatory High School in Milwaukee, it’s integral to their [...]

A Letter from Taleavia: Your Support of Financial Freedom

A Letter from Taleavia: Your Support of Financial Freedom I’m Taleavia. You may know me as a poet, a Bucks fan or as one of the 7,253 teens that Make A Difference empowered last year. [...]

Innovation in Financial Education: PayPal CEO is Right to Downplay Technology

by Brenda Campbell, President & CEO, Make A Difference - Wisconsin It is very vogue to seek technological solutions to financial education problems. Over the last few years, dozens of startups have crowded the education [...]

Behind the Financial Impact Figures, There’s Someone Like Brittany

by Brenda Campbell, President and CEO, Make A Difference - Wisconsin By many accounts, I’m a numbers person. I love to see the quantitative results from surveys and research. I geek out over trend stories [...]

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