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Breadth of JIFFI Opportunities

Blog Posts & UpdatesBy adminApril 24, 2014Leave a comment

Breadth of JIFFI Opportunities By Megan ’17   One of my favorite events I have attended with JIFFI was a talk with Professor Judy Fox of the Notre Dame Law School. This discussion really opened my eyes to the everyday problems people living in poverty in South Bend experience. We talked about transportation, difficult access…

JIFFI Thought Bubble with Prof. Judy Fox

Blog Posts & UpdatesBy adminApril 9, 2014Leave a comment

JIFFI Thought Bubble with Prof. Judy Fox By Emily Campbell ’17   On a cold Monday evening, JIFFI members gathered for the weekly Thought Bubble. 122 Mendoza filled with members as they anticipated the arrival of Professor Judy Fox, a law professor at Notre Dame. Professor Fox was invited to discuss her work with predatory…

JIFFI’s First Financial Empowerment Training Session!

Blog Posts & UpdatesBy adminApril 1, 2014Leave a comment

JIFFI’s First Financial Empowerment Training Session! By Amanda Conklin ’17   For the past few months, I have been fortunate to work with the financial empowerment team here at JIFFI. We have been working to create a six-module financial literacy program for our clients. Through these six modules, we hope to assist our clients in…

Living Out JIFFI’s Mission: An Associate’s First Client Meetings

Blog Posts & UpdatesBy adminMarch 14, 2014Leave a comment

Living Out JIFFI’s Mission: An Associate’s First Client Meetings By Aaron Bode ’17 Before talking about my experience with a client, I should first give a disclaimer: my personal finances have never been… how should I phrase this… “orderly.” My parents tell stories of me wasting my small allowance as a child the day I…

The Crossroads of Finance and HOPE

Blog Posts & UpdatesBy adminMarch 4, 2014Leave a comment

The Crossroads of Finance and HOPE By Jack Markwalter ’17   Now that my first school year of involvement with JIFFI is about three-quarters of the way done, I am able to reflect on how fortunate I am to have had the experience that I had prior to working with this great organization. During the…

JIFFI’s First Thought Bubble

Blog Posts & UpdatesBy adminFebruary 25, 2014Leave a comment

JIFFI’s First Thought Bubble By Helen ’17 In order to guarantee our clients our best possible service, JIFFI is constantly looking for ways to improve the knowledge base of our members. A major part of this is, of course, having the basic financial background to be able to teach clients, assess risk, and grant loans,…

Loan #9: Flexibility vs. Standardization

Blog Posts & UpdatesBy adminFebruary 21, 2014Leave a comment

Loan #9: Flexibility vs. Standardization By Andrew ’15   It’s tax season in America.  For those living paycheck-to-paycheck, that means a one-time bump in income from their tax refund gives them some short-lived breathing room. It’s also winter in America, and a brutal winter at that.  Beside heightened heating costs, many workers have also lost…

An Associate’s Experience with JIFFI’s Loan #10

Blog Posts & UpdatesBy adminFebruary 14, 2014Leave a comment

An Associate’s Experience with JIFFI’s Loan #10 By Samantha DiMaggio ’17   On call during my Tuesday office hour shift last week, I spent the time working through some accounting problems in an effort to prepare for my upcoming exam. My computer, logged into the Google Voice account that the staff uses in order to…

Starting Off the Semester with Two Loans!

Blog Posts & UpdatesBy adminFebruary 11, 2014Leave a comment

Starting Off the Semester with Two Loans!   February has been a busy month for JIFFI, as we made our ninth and tenth loans on consecutive days this past weekend! Thanks to the efforts of Andrew Weiler, Aidan Dore, Samantha DiMaggio, and Peter Woo, two more clients in the South Bend area are closer to…

Division Update: Community Relations

Blog Posts & UpdatesBy adminDecember 18, 2013Leave a comment

Division Update: Community Relations By Nora Goebelbecker ’14   Happy Holidays from the Community Relations team! Since Mark Shealy, Emily Campbell, and Meagan Howell joined the team in October, we’ve brainstormed different ways to connect with the people we exist to serve—whether they work right here on campus or somewhere else in South Bend. We…

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