Projects
MMI launched Regiftable.com, a microsite that encourages readers share their regifting success and horror stories, and learn the proper ways to “regift” in 2006. Regifting, made popular in a Seinfeld episode entitled “The Label Maker,” is the act of taking a gift that has been received and giving it to somebody else. According to MMI, regifting can be a way to save money during the holidays, but more importantly, it’s a fun way to discuss an often-uncomfortable subject: holiday spending. MMI also coined “National Regifting Day” as the Thursday before the Christmas holiday, as that is when the majority of office holiday parties take place. and
April was named National Financial Literacy Month by the passing of Senate Resolution 316 with unanimous consent in April 2004. MMI created FinancialLiteracyMonth.com to support the educational mission of National Financial Literacy Month, with a 30-day, step by step process for improving financial wellness. On the Web site, consumers can download financial assessment materials and educational materials to help get them on firm financial ground.
MMI is an approved bankruptcy counseling agency and has developed several consumer bankruptcy education resources, including Bankruptcy.org and BankruptcyCertificate.com. Both sites offer consumers resources for pre- and post-bankruptcy filing counseling and education.
MMI launched SaveOrSpend.com as a place for consumers to discuss their tax time save or spend strategies, and learn about how to use their federal tax refund check to their best advantage. The microsite offers user-contributed stories about decisions to save or spend their refund checks, as well as a number of valuable resources for those wondering which option is best for them. An MMI survey revealed that astrological signs may even impact the decision to save or spend a tax refund check.
The MMI Financial Education Foundation operates to educate the general public on sound personal financial skills and money management principles by developing, delivering, and supporting programs that teach those skills and principles. The MMI foundation was established on August 31, 2001, and provides grants to qualifying non-profit financial education programs for the development and delivery of financial education programs, tools and materials, distribution of educational materials, offsetting operating costs associated with financial education endeavors, and/or expenses associated with individual education endeavors (i.e. scholarships, grants, etc.). Former president of the MMI Financial Education Foundation, Steve Bucci, contributed to a book entitled, Credit Repair Kit for Dummies, in which he includes many of the principles taught through the Foundation.
The Centers for Financial Education is a nonprofit, educational organization, and a division of MMI. The Centers for Financial Education mission is to educate the public on sound personal financial skills and money management principles by developing, delivering, and supporting programs that teach those skills and principles. The organization has offices in Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Greater Washington D.C., Illinois, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, Virginia and Washington.
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“One of the things that is most striking about the young generation is that they never talk about their own futures, there are no futures for this generation, not any of them and so naturally they never think of them. It is very striking, they do not live in the present they just live, as well as they can, and they do not plan. It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for a future, none at all.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“But look what we have built ... low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace.... Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums.... Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.”
—Jane Jacobs (b. 1916)