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Justine PETERSEN helps small businesses and individuals achieve new levels of financial capability by focusing on building assets. Emphasis is on the loan applicants' strengths in achieving their goals. Sharon Echols, JP micro-customer and owner of Miss M’s Candy, is featured.
Legends Restaurant & Sports Bar celebrates its Grand Opening in East St. Louis on April 19th. Listen to owner Robert Betts discuss his challenges accessing a bank loan and how he used Justine PETERSEN's micro-loan prgoram to get his business open.
Veronica, JP micro-borrower and owner of La Mancha Coffeehouse, speaks to the role of La Mancha in the Old North neighborhood.
Justine PETERSEN and Credit Builders Alliance are supporting partners in the Chicago Credit Building Coalition (CCBC).
Chonda DeBoise and Galen Gondolfi of Justine PETERSEN discuss JP’s products and services on STL TV’s City Corner program hosted by Steve Potter.
Galen Gondolfi uses hair as a metaphor to discuss the differences between financial capability and financial literacy; credit repair and credit building. He describes JP services to the Aspen Institute FIELD grantees of the Credit Building as Asset Building program.
Lewis Roberts discusses the purpose and focus of Citi Microfinance, including remittance, savings and credit.
Alex Fennoy discusses Midwest Bankcentre bank branch expansion, $250,000 investment into a Justine PETERSEN micro-loan fund and their signature product: the Affordable Home Improvement Loan.
Rob Schwartz, The Bank of Edwardsville, talks about products for the under- and unbanked such as "Start Fresh" checking, Small Loan Product and the Micro-Loan Program in partnership with the Madison County Treasurer's Office and Justine PETERSEN.
Tasha Pettis-Bond, PNC Bank, discusses bank branch at Page & Grand, seminars as an outreach and education strategy and the Foundations checking account.
Justine PETERSEN has a unique philosophy that Credit is an Asset. Discover how to build good credit!
On April 2, Justine PETERSEN kicked off Money Smart Week Illinois in East St. Louis.
Small business means big things for local economies. And there's a conference next week in St. Louis that will focus on making very small businesses mean even more.
About 500 members of the Association for Enterprise Opportunity are gathering Sunday through Wednesday at the Chase Park Plaza for their annual convention. AEO is a group that advocates for the nation's 25.5 million “micro-businesses” – defined as companies with five or fewer employees – and helps them find loans and access professional services.
Justine PETERSEN helps small businesses and individuals achieve new levels of financial capability by focusing on building assets. Emphasis is on the loan applicants' strengths in achieving their goals. Sharon Echols, JP micro-customer and owner of Miss M’s Candy, is featured.
You've probably heard about the importance of a good credit score -- it opens access to affordable mortgages, auto loans and reasonably priced credit, but it could also help to secure a job, buy a cell phone or establish utilities without paying a hefty deposit. And a low credit score will cost you. People with a weak credit rating willl pay approximately $250,000 more in interest throughout their working lives than those with stronger scores.
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