What Makes Us Different
What We Do
Financial Beginnings is a nonprofit, public benefit, organization that provides finance education to youth and young adults in the Pacific Northwest. Financial Beginnings provides all programs at no cost to participants.
Our Mission
Financial Beginnings empowers youth and adults to take control of their financial future. We provide educational programs that incorporate all aspects of personal finance to give individuals the foundation they need to make informed financial decisions.
Current Events
From Left Bottom: Variny Paladino, Oregon Jump$tart Coalition, Senator Rick Metsger, Jen Lewis, Senator Metsger’s Office, Melody Thompson, Financial Beginnings, top: Nick Allard, KGW, Cody Galloway, Harlo Media, David Bell, Operation Hope
Photo: LeeAnn Gauthier
Photo: LeeAnn Gauthier
On behalf all of the students, teachers, volunteers, staff, and board of Financial Beginnings I would like to thank you for another successful event!
Melody Thompson, Financial Beginnings' Executive
Director, and Former Portland Trail Blazer, Michael
Harper, drawing the winner of the Smartcar.
Congratulations to Kris Hunt! Thank you Tigard Subway for this generous donation and incredibly fun event!
Platinum Sponsors
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Did You Know?
From Our Students…
| "I was just getting ready to make payments on my Target card and was thinking the minimum payment was a good idea and a good deal. Now I paid off the whole thing in one sitting." |
Shocking Statistic of the Day
| Personal bankruptcies nearly doubled in the past decade, including more than 1.6 million people who filed for personal bankruptcy in 2003. |
| (Source: Annual Hawaii Economic and Financial Literacy Conference, 2004) |