MEMBER PROFILE

The Credit Path

Credit Path Illustration

As Alternatives Credit Union has grown and changed, our use of the Credit Path model of financial empowerment has changed as well. Originally developed by Bill Myers as a way of understanding our members' financial situations and incorporating that into our business planning, the Credit Path describes where people are situated at various points along a continuum between poverty and self-sufficiency. Our job, as a community development financial institution, is to help our members move along that continuum by empowering them to make decisions, and offering opportunities, that will move them towards financial self-sufficiency.<

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ACORN - www.livingwagecampaign.org - Community organizing group that supports living wage movements.

Economic Policy Institute - www.epinet.org - Research group that supports the living wage movement.

Responsible Wealth - www.responsiblewealth.org - A program of United for a Fair Economy made up of the wealthiest people in America. Information about living wage movements.

United For a Fair Economy - www.faireconomy.org - a “movement support” organization to provide media capacity, economic literacy education, and training resources to organizations and individuals who work to address the widening income and asset gap in our country.

Worker's Center - www.tclivingwage.org - Previously called The Living Wage Coalition, the Worker's Center advocates for a living wage in Tompkins County and also supports a Living Wage Employer Certification program.