Financial Education Club
The Financial Education Club is a project of thefei.ca that aims to impart fundamental and central nancial literacy concepts. They provide a six-week course that covers goal-setting, credit and debt analysis, cost planning, and budgeting.
Chartered accountants teach the course, which is offered all year round.
The course is taught throughout the year, and chartered accountants run it. Find out more: thefei.ca
2023/2024 PLANS
We have great plans for the academic year 2023 -2024
Monthly events with Black Women Entrepreneurs, which includes but are not limited to hiking, webinars, meet-ups, etc.
Six primary nancial literacy education cycles with our Money Matters Club, which meets on Thursday nights.
Tax Clinic runs all through the year for the rst time every Friday from 10 am-noon.
Our volunteer database is growing, and we will soon begin o ering tax clinic training.
Sustaining your not-for-pro t is a training school for executives and all who work in the not-for-pro t sector, equipping them with the skills they need to thrive in their industry.
HERE ARE SOME STATS
- We have served over 750 clients
- We have led over 1500 tax returns
- We have over 20 volunteers
- We have run in excess of 50 nancial literacy workshops
Volunteer with us
Share your time, skills and expertise with us.
Text: (825) 3995 0042 or email: operations@thefei.ca
2023/2024 PLANS
Become the foremost nancial literacy education and coaching organization in Alberta.
Work with other immigrant-serving organizations to provide nancial literacy education.
Mentor youths.
Contact us
Website: www.thefei.ca
Email:operations@thefei.ca
Phone: (825) 3995 0042
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From the Board
The transition from LCCMedia Foundation to The Financial Empowerment Initiative (theFei.ca) inspires us. We are con dent that we will do signicantly more in the area of nancial education this year than we have in the past.
WHO ARE WE?
LCCMedia Foundation now operates as the Financial Empowerment Initiative. We have been training Albertans, new immigrants, pensioners, and women innancial literacy since 2019.
We provide our participants access to the wealth and expertise of community partners and leaders in business, entrepreneurship, and technology so they are well-informed.
Thefei.ca is a registered not-for-pro t organization in Canada. As part of other activities in the community, we are building on the power of innovation and entrepreneurship to develop a system of instruction and training which ordinary people in all walks of life can access for their well-being.
Tax Clinic OUR FLAGSHIP PROGRAMS
The Free Tax Filing Initiative is a nancial initiative created to help low-income individuals le their taxes for free. This allows them to get access to available social services. This e ort intends to lessen the cost of tax preparation for low-income people and small businesses in particular.
The Free Tax Filing Initiative encourages nancial inclusion by lowering nancial barriers that can keep people and businesses from accurately and timely ling their taxes.
Since 2019, we have helped nearly two thousand people le their taxes.
Black Women Entrepreneurs
The goal is to give Black women the tools they need to succeed in the workforce. The goal is to support Black Canadian company owners and entrepreneurs in expanding their enterprises and nding success in the long run. Through a weekly training event dubbed Webinar Wednesdays, we do this.
We also provide nuggets to motivate and pointers to new and existing funding sources. This included access to bankers and funders interested in nancing individuals in the group.
We have covered topics such as the importance of vision and strategy, branding, thriving in the retail industry, ways to secure funding, etc.
Sustaining your not-for-profit
Training those who work in the not-for-pro t sector is what we do here. We o er a program to enable industry executives and employees to succeed and manage their not-for-pro t organizations.
Once a week, we use webinars to problem-solve with industry heavyweights. The future we see is one in which non-pro t organisations within the black community thrive in a sustainable manner.
This program is implemented in collaboration with Dexteritas, an accounting rm operating out of Calgary.
