Summer Correspondence from your JIFFI Intern! By Aaron Bode ’17 “Winter’s a good time to stay in and cuddle, but put me in summer and I’ll be a — happy intern!” Greetings to the extended JIFFI-verse! The sun is shining, the weather is warm, and I am no longer tied to a desk in the…
DetailsBreadth 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…
DetailsJIFFI 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…
DetailsJIFFI’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…
DetailsLiving 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…
DetailsThe 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…
DetailsJIFFI’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,…
DetailsLoan #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…
DetailsPreventing the Cycle By Agustin ’16 One of the most talked-about ideas regarding JIFFI is the somewhat cliché quote of breaking the cycle of payday loans – breaking the cycle of poverty. With our loans at a significantly lower interest rate and a comfortable repayment period, our clients are able to successfully escape their…
DetailsAn 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…
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