Today, we celebrate Dawn, a recent graduate of Getting Ahead, on her new microloan! She has taken consistent, daily action on her journey towards realizing her future story. As part of the GAIN network, she recently partnered with Evansville Christian Life Center for their Financial Potential program, where she's been paired with an advocate to [...]
St. Vincent de Paul of Evansville recently celebrated the successful completion of our 5th GAIN cohort! All told, we graduated 12 dedicated, eager-to-learn participants that investigated their own lives, their community, and worked toward building resources and solutions for themselves and those around them. Every group in Getting Ahead is unique in their own way, [...]
As an extension of the "Getting Ahead" program offered by St. Vincent de Paul in Evansville, in which participants begin to build the resources and skills necessary to move from poverty to self-sustainability, we now provide "Staying Ahead" to graduates. The purpose of Staying Ahead is to provide ongoing support and resources to Getting [...]
Multiple graduates of “Getting Ahead in a Just Gettin’-by World” (“Getting Ahead”) led by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul in Evansville, were recently approved for low-interest consumer loans at First Federal Savings Bank in Evansville. Graduates of St. Vincent de Paul’s “Getting Ahead” program may be eligible for a fully backed consumer loan [...]
The District of Evansville of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul has been awarded a $10,000 grant from the CenterPoint Energy Foundation to provide a 16-week session of "Getting Ahead in a Just Getting-by World: Building Your Resources for a Better Life," a group process for self-discovery and resource building for financial independence. "Getting [...]
