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Statewide Financial Education Resources
Financial Beginnings Washington
530 Industry Drive Suite 240 Tukwila, WA 98188
800-406-1876
Provides free, unbiased financial education to youth and adults in the Pacific Northwest to help them build and protect assets while increasing opportunities available to them, such as home ownership, higher education, and secure retirement
Additional info: Last year Pierce County comprised 32% (4,373 individuals) of the total Washingtonians we educated, and this year we are on track to reach over 6,000 individuals in Pierce County.
Clearpoint Credit Counseling
800-750-2227
National, nonprofit agency offering free credit counseling, budgeting help, bankruptcy counseling, and housing counseling.
Kitsap County Financial Education Resources
Business Education Support Training (BE$T)
Kitsap Community Resources
360-478-2301
Works with entrepreneurs who are ready to start a new business or improve an existing one. Open to all who are interested (regardless of employment or income levels). Class schedule on website.
Financial Education
The Asset Building Coalition of Kitsap County
845 8th Street, Bremerton, WA 98337
306-473-2126
Free financial workshops, credit reports, credit counseling assistance, home ownership education, tax preparation assistance, and referrals to financial support programs.
Pierce County Financial Education Resources
Sound Outreach’s Financial Empowerment Program
Multiple Locations
Provides services to put consumers in charge of their money utilizing Financial Counselors to teach consumers how to build wealth and use credit wisely, embedded in organizations throughout Pierce County. Partners with a credit union to provide credit-building loan products to consumers with lower income or poor credit and those who are unbanked.
Pierce County Asset Building Coalition (PCABC)
253-426-1516
Services provided include financial education and coaching, free tax preparation, home owner resources, employment/job training. Associated Ministries partners with the IRS and other agencies to recruit, train and schedule volunteers to complete taxes for people making under, for 2017 income, $56,000 a year or less (at no cost).
Please check out the available Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) sites (e.g. GoodWill, United Way of Pierce County, Sound Outreach, Pierce County Library System locations, etc.)
Skagit County Financial Education Resources
Sedro-Woolley American Legion George Baldridge Post 43
701 Murdock St, Sedro-Woolley
360-855-0520
Provides financial assistance to veterans
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