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WISE USE CREDIT [1 record]

Record 1 2018-01-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Non-Gov. Provincial Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Finance
OBS

[Its mission is to] educate Albertans in personal money management and the wise use of credit, and to provide alternatives for families and individuals facing financial crisis.

OBS

Money Mentors is the only Alberta-based, not-for-profit credit counselling agency. Through a number of services, [it helps] families and individuals recover from financial crisis and move forward. ... Opening [its] doors in 1997 to help Albertans regain control of unmanageable debts, [it] became the exclusive provider of the Orderly Payment of Debts program – managing the program on behalf of the Government of Alberta. Within five short years, Money Mentors was completely self-sufficient – with most of [its] funding coming from agreements set up with creditors seeking payment from clients.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités provinciaux non gouv. canadiens
  • Finances

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