AY Staff
January 30, 2023
“The bank was doing some classes, and when I came onboard, I was able to join in with that,” she said. “[At Our House] we’re teaching the homeless and near-homeless about budgeting and saving money.”
These efforts eventually led the bank to adopt the Bank On program, an initiative aimed at unbanked and underbanked populations to help them start a savings program and get into a checking account. Our House provided an ideal target audience for the initiative.
“Bank On has really helped Our House help individuals who may have had a checking account in the past and perhaps made some poor decisions,” she said. “We are now allowing people to open First Steps checking, which I refer to as second chance checking, through the Bank On program.”
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