The
Lansing Financial Empowerment Center strives to give Lansing residents tools to improve their financial situation. With the new TV show, Money Power, the Center aims to increase awareness of their programming and help and even greater number of residents down the path of financial wellness.
"We hope that the show will be a fun way to both give people some extra tools to better their financial situation, but also to highlight the wealth of great resources that Lansing has to offer - many of them free," says Amber Paxton, director for the Center and Office of Financial Empowerment with the City of Lansing.
The Center is a grant-funded program of the
City of Lansing and
Capital Area Community Services, which offers free one-on-one financial counseling and is modeled after the
Financial Empowerment Center model created by the City of New York.
"Because of the generous grant from the Cities for Financial Empowerment fund through support from Bloomberg Philanthropies, we are honored to be 'tied for second place' in implementing this model," says Paxton.
The three-year, $1.5 million grant asks that the City provide in-kind support. The City of Lansing and the
Lansing Public Media Center are contributing the production of 12 episodes per year of Money Power on an in-kind basis. Three shows are complete and available for viewing on
Vimeo. Extreme Couponing, saving money by shopping at Farmers' Markets, and decreasing energy costs are examples of topics covered.
Source: Amber Paxton, Office of Financial Empowerment
Writer: Veronica Gracia-Wing, Innovation News
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