The Importance Of Planning And Ideas For Fundraising Activities

Business

In any given community there are a number of organizations and associations who rely heavily upon fundraising methods. Often the success that they have in fundraising allows them to stay operational, provide services, purchase needed supplies, etc. In fact, if looking at the budget of any not-for-profit in your community one would find that their [...]

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Using Your Credit Card (Wisely) Can Save You Money

Frugality

I’m no fan of credit card debt.  It’s just about the easiest way to ruin your life, financially speaking.  However I am an advocate of using credit cards when they can benefit you financially.  Believe it or not there are several ways that using a credit card for purchases can actually save you money.  It [...]

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The Secret to Building Wealth

Finance 101

I’ve had many people ask me over the past several weeks what the secret is to building wealth.  Today I am going to share the answer with you.  Before I do though, I want to tell you what it’s not.  It’s not a great investing tip.  It’s not a can’t-lose business idea.  It’s not even [...]

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The Bailout of Fannie and Freddie

Miscellaneous

The United States of America has officially become a nation of bailouts.  With the government takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on Sunday, September 7 they have also become the nation’s largest mortgage provider.  They now own (or back) around $5-6 trillion in mortgage loans, which is roughtly half of the existing mortgages in [...]

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5 Reasons I Want To Be A Millionaire

Miscellaneous

If you ask just about anyone in the world if they would like to be rich they will more than likely respond in favor of wealth.  No one actually wants to be poor.  In fact some of us want wealth so badly that we’ll do almost anything to get it.  Wars, murders, lies, deceptions, fraud [...]

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How Your Credit Score Defines You

Loans and Credit

Remember in High School when you would worry about how well you would do on your tests, and how those scores would either make or break your college admissions and scholarships?  It wasn’t the most relaxing thing to think about. Well now as adults we continue to be graded and assessed by our scores, only [...]

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Why Lauren Willis Is Wrong About Money

Personal Finance

I ran across an interesting article the other day which featured an interview with Lauren Willis, an associate law professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.  The name of the article is Why You Can’t Teach Money and it’s a question and answer session between a writer at Money Magazine and Lauren Willis.  Lauren [...]

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