CASH Campaign holds ‘financial fitness fair’ at Poly Western High School

BALTIMORE — Many individuals dream of changing into wealthy, however making clever monetary selections is step one to securing a monetary future.

On Saturday at Poly Western Excessive Faculty, the CASH Marketing campaign for Maryland returned with its annual monetary health truthful to supply extra than simply free recommendation.

The hassle an individual should make to grab management of their funds will be complicated and overwhelming. That’s the reason Cash Energy Day supplied a one cease store for monetary schooling.

“You will stroll away with extra energy as a result of you’ll get extra info, and you’ll be on a path to monetary resilience,” Comptroller of Maryland Brooke Lierman stated on the occasion.

Yearly, CASH Marketing campaign of Maryland hosts what they name the biggest monetary health truthful within the area.

Fifty companies and companies lined as much as provide private cash administration recommendation without charge. All through the six-hour truthful, there have been free workshops to debate residence possession, credit score scores and saving plans.

“This can be a ‘no shady zone’ at Cash Energy Day,” CASH Marketing campaign of Maryland COO Sara Johnson stated. “We wish to be sure that individuals have entry to good high quality info and plus we wish to make it enjoyable on the similar time.”

As a “Cash Seize Sales space” garners consideration, the aim is to get rid of the daunting really feel tied to coping with private funds.

“We have now to remove the stigma of cash,” Francesca Jean Baptiste, the director of tax partnerships, stated. “We have now to be sure that people perceive that so long as you’ve schooling and data that is energy and speaking about cash shouldn’t be unhealthy.”

For 16 years, the occasion has got down to deal with matters like debt, scholar loans and even methods to begin a small enterprise. 

Whereas kids paint piggy banks and fill out workbooks to be taught the worth of a coin, the truthful intends to show all generations the empowerment behind making good cash strikes.

“It is time for us Baltimore to take management of our monetary futures and shut the wealth hole by making not simply good however nice selections with our cash and educating these rules to our youngsters and our family members,” Baltimore Metropolis Mayor Brandon Scott stated.