Over the past week, JIFFI has posted different facts related to poverty and payday lending nationwide and within the South Bend community. From research on these topics coming from the South Bend Tribune as well as Indiana Institute for Working Families’ Financial Drain: Payday Lenders extract millions from Hoosier communities report, we were able to…
In 2014, JIFFI’s founder, Peter Woo delivered a TEDxUND talk where he discusses the dangers of payday lending and JIFFI’s alternative mission to deliver fair credit to the financially vulnerable.
JIFFI members were interviewed for Mendoza’s “Grow the Good in Business” Initiative.
5 Ways You Can Get Financial Benefits from COVID-19 Stimulus Bill By Edward Brunicardi *** This article is sponsored by the Jubilee Initiative for Financial Inclusion (JIFFI) and is the first installment of a three-part series intended to inform South Bend residents about the financial resources available to them during the COVID-19 emergency. ***…
July 28 A few days ago, I stopped by our office in the South Bend Heritage Foundation building in 803 Lincoln Way West. I had never personally been there. Lately, we haven’t utilized the office enough, so I decided to stop by. I was confused about how the key fob worked so I rang the…
Week 1 This first week and a half interning at JIFFI has been filled with so many different experiences. I’ve had the opportunity to meet with a few different clients and to get to know them better. I’ve also had the chance to participate in the loan process in its entirety. One of the clients…
A lot has happened since my last blog post… At the end of June, I was able to teach a class to a group of Summer Scholars on the payday loan industry and how JIFFI is working as an alternate option. They were very interested in learning about the injustices that surround payday loans and…
Since my last blog post, I was able to get my first client approved! It took some persuading of our Credit team, but I was able to offer my client a small loan with the promise that if he/she pays it off, we can reevaluate for a larger loan in the future. For the first…
So we’re doing the JIFFI internship a little differently this summer, and by differently, I mean there are two of us. My name is Vivian Crumlish and I’ll be a sophomore in the fall at Notre Dame. I just joined JIFFI last February as a Community Relations Associate, but wanted to get more involved and…
