Other mods – please delete with no hard feelings if we're not cool with this.
Many of you are aware that I run a non-profit whose mission is to provide free student loan advice to all consumers. We are a 501c3 and support ourselves through grants, donations and employers and other entities hiring us to do webinars and provide more hands on help to their staff and constituents. We NEVER charge consumers for our services and won't work with anyone who plans on passing on the cost of hiring us to consumers. We also refuse all advertising and referral money offers to ensure we can honestly say that we are neutral in our advice and that there's never even an appearance of a possible conflict of interest.
As you can probably imagine, our volume is VERY high. It has grown every year since we "opened" but the last few months in particular it has grown exponentially. On the one hand, I'm delighted. This organization was created to help people and the more we can help, the better. But we desperately need to be able to hire more counselors. And I really want us to be able to do more proactive things to help borrowers collectively.
So, I'm NOT here to ask you to make a donation. If you're on this sub it's because you're likely struggling with your student loans and I want you to follow that advice where one puts their own oxygen mask on first. What I am here to ask is that you check if your employer has an employee designated donation program where employees can ask their employer to make a donation to the 501c3 of their choice. We have a few of those that come in and it's so helpful.
If your employer does have such a program, you can use the donate button on the top right hand side of our home page
https://freestudentloanadvice.org/
Thank you for your consideration and support.
PS: Also, if you're aware of any private foundations that offer grants that you think would be a good fit for our mission please pass them along to us.
Posted by Betsy514