MoneyManagement.org Provides education & awareness on all money management issues
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Consumer Credit Counseling Service :: Debt Management Services :: Consolidate Debt
Description
MMI -- For Sound Credit Counseling Management International (MMI) (MMI) is a nonprofit, community service organization that provides professional financial guidance, counseling, community-wide educational programs, and debt management assistance 24 hours a day, seven days a week. MMI, and its family of Consumer Credit Counseling Services, have been delivering financial education and helping consumers reduce debt since 1958.
MMI is considered the largest full service, nonprofit credit counseling agency providing financial education to individuals and families from over 128 branch offices throughout the country. Counseling offices and educational services are available locally in 25 states. In addition to the local branch offices, MMI operates seven contact centers which are located in Houston, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Phoenix, AZ; Roanoke, VA; Denver, CO; Baton Rouge, LA; and Warwick, RI.
MMI strives to be an industry leader in financial education, counseling and creditor relations. The organization is a member of all three credit counseling industry associations including the National Foundation for Credit Counseling (NFCC), the Association of Independent Consumer Credit Counseling Agencies (AICCCA), and American Association of Debt Management Organizations (AADMO). The agency also meets the high national standards and best practices that ensure its accreditation by the Council on Accreditation (COA).
Services
Education Services:
MMI’s mission is to improve lives through financial education. The agency’s team of educators and certified volunteers offer free to low-cost community education seminars and workshops in both English and Spanish.
Workshops are available for all age groups. Programs and seminars offered include: Money Bunny, which is a program for kids that include activities to identify needs vs. wants; training for purchasing a first car and apartment for young adults; and a variety of adult programs including Scams and Fraud, Surviving a Divorce, Understanding Money and Credit, Planning for the Holidays, First-time Homebuyers, Understanding Your Credit Report, Surviving a Layoff, and more.
Consumers also have a wealth of free financial education material at their fingertips on MoneyManagement.org – MMI’s primary Web site. The site offers a variety of educational articles, webinars, teacher resource material, financial tools and calculators, newsletters, and the ability to submit questions to the MMI Advice Team.
Counseling:
Credit Counseling MMI’s counseling team conducts an average of 11,000 (2008) free credit counseling sessions per month. More than 70 percent of the people counseled by MMI simply needed financial advice, and are able to take the advice and material offered during the counseling session to turn their financial situation around and continue managing their finances on their own.
For those needing more than just financial advice, MMI’s DMP’s are designed to help consumers get completely out of debt. On average, MMI opens 2,800 (2008) new DMP’s per month.
Housing Counseling Free housing counseling services are aimed at saving homes and building communities. Housing counseling services include delinquent mortgage counseling, reverse mortgage counseling and pre-purchase counseling. MMI’s is one of the agencies that support the nationally endorsed Hope Hotline (888.995.HOPE)
MMI’s Preserving Homeownership and Savings Education Strategy (PHASES) program is available to homeowners in select states, at no cost, and provides qualified applicants with grants to pay past due mortgage payments and other outstanding debts.
MMI also offers reverse mortgage counseling, which is designed to educate seniors on the benefits, consequences, options and process of obtaining a Home Equity Conversion Mortgage.
Bankruptcy Counseling MMI is approved by the Executive Office for United States Trustees to provide pre-filing bankruptcy counseling and to issue certificates in compliance with the Bankruptcy Code. Pre-filing counseling is available by a variety of delivery methods. In-person bankruptcy counseling is available by appointment in all local markets. Individuals can also complete a pre-filing counseling session by telephone and Internet.
Languages
English
Address
- 9009 W Loop S Ste 700
- Houston TX 77096 US
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- Wikipedia entry: Money Management International
- Alexa: MoneyManagement.org
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