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Empowering Dreams with a Matched Savings Program

May 23, 2024

Stability has always been a top priority for Akirah. Having moved more than 20 times before the age of 25, she was determined to provide...

Financial Empowerment

Tackling Poverty by Building Generational Wealth: An In-depth Look at the Lubert IDA Program

June 28, 2022

The Lubert Individual Development Account (IDA) program is one of the most important initiatives in our region. It seeks to help everyone in the UWGPSNJ...

Financial Empowerment

Invested Together: Helping Individuals Through Matched Savings

April 25, 2022

Low-income families face systemic barriers to building assets partly due to challenges with accessing capital, labor market segregation, and extractive practices and policies. This is...

Financial Empowerment

Philadelphia Inquirer: Philly’s first-time home buyers will get more help from the city when its grant program returns

April 18, 2022

Akirah Pressley’s three decades of life have been marked by instability. When she was 13, her mother died. A few years later, she was forced...

Financial Empowerment

Welcome Home: Jamie’s Lubert IDA Story

August 12, 2021

The Lubert Individual Development Account (IDA) Program is one of the most important initiatives in our region to decrease the wealth gap while allowing individuals...

Financial Empowerment

With transformational giving, donors help people get a slice of the pie

September 21, 2018

by Jane M. Von Bergen, For the Inquirer, Posted: September 21, 2018 When it comes to “transformational gifts,” some multimillion-dollar donors underwrite a building, or a research...

Career Pathways

NBC10 Broke in Philly Series: Lubert IDA Program

June 25, 2018

NBC10 Broke in Philly Series: Lubert IDA Program We’re taking a closer look at families experiencing financial hardship. It’s part of our Broke in Philly...