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Roxbury Center for Financial Empowerment

New season of free tax help includes outreach to aspiring homebuyers

New season of free tax help includes outreach to aspiring homebuyers

The Boston Tax Help Coalition kicked off its eighteenth season of free tax preparation services with the help of Mayor Martin J. Walsh and community partners at a launch event held yesterday at the Roxbury Center for Financial Empowerment. The

Katie Liesener January 30, 2019March 26, 2019 Uncategorized Read more

Shattuck Award shines light on Alan Gentle’s financial empowerment work

Shattuck Award shines light on Alan Gentle’s financial empowerment work

Alan Gentle was in his office, chipping away at the administrative details of his staff’s financial work – when the phone rang. It was the Boston Municipal Research Bureau calling with exciting news: Gentle had been selected as one of

Katie Liesener September 10, 2018October 11, 2018 Uncategorized Read more

New program to help residents boost their credit scores

New program to help residents boost their credit scores

A key wedge driving the gap between Boston’s affluent and low- and middle-income residents is credit. While good credit opens the door to low-cost loans, poor or no credit can make innumerable life transactions more expensive, from car loans to

Katie Liesener December 4, 2017July 19, 2018 Uncategorized Read more

Bridges to Careers grads move on to hospitality training

Bridges to Careers grads move on to hospitality training

Today, ten graduates completed the Bridges to Careers program, which prepared them to enter rigorous job training with BEST Hospitality Training Center. See the photo gallery below for glimpses of their celebration. Or learn more about Bridges to Careers, run by Mayor Walsh’s

Katie Liesener April 28, 2017July 19, 2018 Uncategorized Read more

Job-seekers cross “bridge” to job training

Job-seekers cross “bridge” to job training

Caroline Sande stood in front of the graduates of the Bridge to Culinary program at their December 9th ceremony in Roxbury as a prime example of someone who made the most of the opportunity she’d been given. Just six months

Katie Liesener December 29, 2016July 19, 2018 Uncategorized Read more

OFE’s financial center & BHA help clients pursue home ownership

OFE’s financial center & BHA help clients pursue home ownership

When they walk into Maria Chavez’s Boston Housing Authority (BHA) office, many public housing residents come fatigued by the challenges of poverty, stress, and the uphill battle to improve their situation. Maria embraces them – anyone who enters her office,

Katie Liesener August 23, 2016July 19, 2018 Uncategorized Read more

NECN urges viewers to come get their EITC with the Boston Tax Help Coalition!

The Office of Financial Empowerment’s Boston Tax Help Coalition prepares and files taxes for eligible individuals and families for free. If you worked in 2015 and earned less than $54,000, you may be eligible. Last week NECN visited our tax

Katie Liesener February 16, 2016November 3, 2016 Uncategorized Read more
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