Support
and Training
The Loan Fund offers a variety of
training to help you develop skills for creating income, building
assets and attaining more independence. Training often helps us get
to where we want to be. In fact, developing skills is developing an
asset. Please have a look below at some of the training we offer to
enable you to build the future you want.
Enterprising Women - Building a Business
Do you have a business idea? Ready
for the challenge of a 20 week program to research and launch your
business idea? Enterprising Women is a new program dedicated to
women wanting to start businesses in Saint John. We will focus on
women who are living on low incomes and are ready to take control of
their future through self-employment. Active recruitment for the
program will begin mid-October 2009 and classes start in January
2010. there will be two classes a week and the expectation is that
you put in 20 hours a month into your training.
Enterprising Women is supported
through a five year funding arrangement from the
Canadian Women's Foundation with
additional funding from Women's Issues Branch of the Province of NB.
For more
information, call Melanie Vautour at 652-5601 or send an email to
enterprise@loanfund.ca
Money
Matter$ Training Program
Money doesn't grow on trees, so
let's not treat it that way!
Money Matter$
is a training course to help you understand the financial world
around you. The course includes five 2 1/2 hour classes that cover;
Assets
- where
you will learn about cash, property, skills and other types of assets,
what you have today and what assets you want to acquire and have
for the future.
Budgeting
-
where you will track expenses, learn about your needs and wants,
set goals, and create a budget.
Credit - where
you will learn about credit ratings, how to read your own credit
report, credit cards, loans, finance companies, and how to handle
and repair debt.
Banking
- where
you will learn about interest rates, types of accounts, kinds of
financial institutions, service fees, and what banking you need.
Consumerism
- where you will learn why you spend money on certain things, when
you do it, how ads work, and how our spending habits affect our
future and our environment.
Please contact
Alexandra Warner, the Money Matter$ Coordinator if you are interested in
the class. She can be reached at 652-5601 or
training@loanfund.ca
Power Up! Training
Program
Power Up! is a 10 week
neighbourhood
leadership training program designed exclusively for women - yes
YOU! You'll learn about and learn how to present on your
neighbourhood and you will explore where your next step might be in
your own life. You'll learn research basics, how to present in front
of people, learn to journal, about social enterprise, and much more.
Many graduates have gone on to complete their GED and go even
further with schooling. Some have gotten jobs as Neighbourhood
Assistants or with the local newspaper "Around the Block". Its
really up to you how far you take it.
The program is
offered by the Urban Core Support Network in partnership with the
Loan Fund which provides overall facilitation. To
register or to pick up application forms please contact Brenda
Murphy at 642-9033 or
brenda.murphy@horizonnb.ca. You can also contact
Vicki Cosgrove at 632-5706
powerup@loanfund.ca.
YES! Youth
Entrepreneurship = Success
Are you between the ages of 13-17? Are
you interested in learning about and starting you own summer
business? MAKING some CASH! Well you'll do that as well as learn
about how to do basic research and how to make a difference in your
community. What a great way to build something for your future.
YES! is a summer training and
business launch program for youth. The program will start in June.
Funding for the first pilot of YES! was provided by the Population
Growth Secretariat to provide opportunities for youth to think about
building their future in New Brunswick.
For more information please contact
Alexandra or Adam at 652-5601 or email us at
youth@loanfund.ca
A$$ets Training Program
Assets have value. They can be skills, relationships,
property and cash.
The A$$ets Program
is a 36
week program that will help you build some of the skills and the
saving$ you need to get to a new place in your life.
The
A$$ets Program
provides participants with:
-
Matched savings—you save, we match!
-
Employment Options—where do you want to be?
-
Resumes and Interviewing Skills
-
Business Start Up Skills
-
Leadership/Self Esteem
-
Job
Shadowing
-
And
More!
To
apply for
The
A$$ets Program,
contact your Social Development case manager for referral or contact
Alexandra at the Saint John Community Loan Fund 652-5601 or
training@loanfund.ca.
Want
to get involved? Call!
506.652.loan (5626)
Saint John Community
Loan Fund
133 Prince Edward St., Saint John, NB E2L 3S3
Email:
loanfund@nbnet.nb.ca
Fax: 506.652.5603
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