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The pandemic experience is often likened to living through a war. Lives have been tragically lost and many more are still at stake. We are all implicated and affected. We don’t know when or how this will end, but we are tired and yearn for a return to the freedoms and the relative safety we enjoyed before the pandemic.   Wars are also frequently socie...

Submitted by SEED WinnipegSEED Winnipeg, in partnership with the Manitoba Indigenous Cultural Education Centre and Indigenous Languages of Manitoba Inc., worked together to translate the Money Stories curriculum into Cree, Oji-Cree, and Ojibwe.  Money Stories is a unique, intergenerational money management training program grounded in an Indigenous worldview using a str...

Submitted by the EBO Centre Français   In 2020 the EBO Centre tested a "Financial Empowerment Budget Coaching Program" with a “vitamin-effect” component (financial incentive). It was based on EBO's budget counselling model for socially and economically vulnerable people developed using over 40 years of practice.    Workin...

Recover and Rebuild:  Helping Canadians build financial security during the pandemic and beyond     Connect with frontline practitioners in our spring series as we share knowledge, tools and resources and to learn what organizations are doing to meet the needs and demands of struggling Canadians in these unprecedented times. Our fall series will offer pane...

Edmonton launches their integrated financial empowerment program   The City of Edmonton (with support from Prosper Canada) launched their integrated financial empowerment program on January 6, 2021. Since then, City of Edmonton social workers have been connecting with residents who live on a low income, helping them navigate difficult financial challenges, and refer...

The Government of Canada has launched two calls for proposals for multi-year projects to support vulnerable communities across Canada.    The funding calls support projects that focus on the following objectives:   Financial Empowerment for low income people: Develop and carry out financial empowerment services and supports to help increase the f...

Seymour Consulting is a collaborative partner of Prosper Canada. It is a Canadian consulting firm and social enterprise working to help improve the financial resilience and well-being of all Canadians, including in particular more financially vulnerable populations.    Check out this E-brief around how more financially vulnerable Canadians are most challenged b...

Benefits Canada Magazine // With many employees struggling with finances since the coronavirus pandemic started last March, two experts, Elizabeth Mullholland, CEO of Prosper Canada and Joe Nunes, co-founder and executive chairman of Actuarial Solutions Inc., weigh in on the viability of offering a workplace emergency savings benefit.Read

The Toronto Star // Advocates for low-income Canadians say the government needs to invest in community financial help services, or risk leaving hundreds of thousands of Canadians out of the COVID-19 recovery.   Elizabeth Mulholland, CEO of charity Prosper Canada, said the COVID-19 pandemic has made life harder, riskier and more expensive for low-income Canadians.R...

Submitted by ACEF du Nord de Montréal  Français Do you know how your credit report affects your life and your ability to meet some of your basic needs, such as obtaining housing, a job or even insurance? Originally, credit reports were used by banks and other lenders to check your ability to repay credit. Today, the reasons for its use have exploded. Landlords, e...