MEMBER PROFILE

The Credit Path

Credit Path Illustration

As Alternatives Credit Union has grown and changed, our use of the Credit Path model of financial empowerment has changed as well. Originally developed by Bill Myers as a way of understanding our members' financial situations and incorporating that into our business planning, the Credit Path describes where people are situated at various points along a continuum between poverty and self-sufficiency. Our job, as a community development financial institution, is to help our members move along that continuum by empowering them to make decisions, and offering opportunities, that will move them towards financial self-sufficiency.<

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AMERICORPS VISTA POSITIONS
Business CENTS Program

Alternatives Federal Credit Union is recruiting applicants for a one-year AmeriCorps VISTA position with the Business CENTS program, to begin this summer.

Alternatives is a unique community development financial institution with a mission to build wealth and create economic opportunity for underserved people and communities. As a socially responsible community organization, Alternatives works to have a positive impact on the local community through its programs and policies. Many services are devised especially for low income members and small businesses. Among our innovative community programs is the Business CENTS program.

The Business CENTS VISTA member will work on a number of special projects that expand our resources and enhance our ability to grow and support small businesses and promote microenterprise as a strategy for community economic development! The full assignment description is available here.

AmeriCorps VISTA members work throughout the nation with community organizations, working to fight illiteracy, improve health services, create businesses, strengthen community groups, and much more. VISTA members work full-time and receive a modest living stipend during their service, as well as a $4,725 education award or $1,200 cash award on completion of their assignment.

For general information about AmeriCorps VISTA and becoming a member, visit the AmeriCorps website:
http://www.americorps.org/about/programs/vista.asp.

Application:
For more information about the Business Cents position, contact Leslie.

Alternatives is an Equal Opportunity Employer.