At Springboard we promote financial literacy and education. Our credit, debt and budget counseling service is designed to help people who are struggling with too much revolving credit debt. That means a lot of our financial education materials focus on helping people repay debts, create a budget to get through emergencies, and how to weather financial hardships.

But that’s only one part of the equation. Financial literacy isn’t just for surviving a financial crisis; being truly money-smart includes planning for financial success and saving for a comfortable retirement.

The late Loren Dutton founded the National Center for Financial Education (NCFE) in 1982 after creating the Financial Planning profession in 1969. Dutton’s creation has grown to include nearly 100,000 financial planners worldwide, and trade organizations including the CFP Board of Standards, Inc.®, the Financial Planning Association® and the Foundation for Financial Planning.

Springboard believes consumers should seek qualified financial planning services to set a solid foundation for their monetary future.

Another great initiative we’re proud to be participating in is Financial Planning Days. This month, Financial Planning Day events will take place in 31 cities nationwide. Participants will have the opportunity to talk to financial planning professionals for free with no strings attached.

To learn more about this nationwide event, visit www.financialplanningdays.org, where you’ll also be able to find out if there’s an event near you. As for us, we’ll be in San Diego on October 8^th for our local event presenting two workshops, providing a counseling team for one-on-one counseling and manning our resource booth; you can find out more about it here.

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