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Reset Your Priorities: How Homeownership Can Rebuild a City
HomeFree USA's Marcia Griffin Says Individual Economic Empowerment Can Be Transformative
We often point out all of the ways that homeownership can help consumers. Yet we sometimes overlook how it can also literally transform cities....
By Administrator - Jan. 8, 2018 09:00 am ET
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Testimony Monday: 850 FICO
850 FICO is a comedic improv team made of actors Ayinde Howell (@ayinde), Dior Allen (@actordiorallen), Dyani Rejae (@dyanirejae), Kalilah Harris (@thisiskalilah), Kendra Hill (@mymisshill), and writer Rochée Jeffrey (@_iamrochee_). It started as a joke. While thinking of names for our improv group we were discussing our financial troubles. As creatives, our income fluctuates. We […]
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Lynnette Khalfani-Cox: Vigilant Warrior Against Debt
One of the most popular questions The Money Coach Lynnette Khalfani-Cox gets asked is how to improve one’s credit score. While inquirers may be hoping for a quick fix, establishing and maintaining good credit requires thoughtful action, or as Lynnette likes to call it, a game plan. “It’s incumbent upon us to learn how to [...]
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Living dfree®: April 2018 E-Magazine
Lynnette Khalfini-Cox is a vigilant warrior against debt who explains how to repair credit; meet the Billion Dollar Challenge winner: an army veteran and a single mother; God’s Gurls talk music, ministry and money; and more! Read the April 2018 issue now.
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Soaries speaks at Renew Conference
Union, New Jersey – Highlighting the need for African Americans to become debt free, dfree® Founder DeForest B. Soaries, Jr., spoke at the Union BaptistChurch Renew: Church Leaders & Laity Conference. “My job is to motivate and teach leadership that it is possible to be free and they, in turn, teach their congregations how to [...]
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Global Financial Freedom Movement dfree® Marches into 2018 with BET Digital Campaign and MLK Week Appearances Around the Country
Somerset, New Jersey – January 19, 2018 – dfree® (www.mydfree.org) the global Financial Freedom Movement that is empowering organizations and individuals to lead richer lives by improving how they think about and manage money, makes an aggressive move to infiltrate culture with its message of economic empowerment by partnering with media giant BET on a […]
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Honoring Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
dfree® Executive Director Tamika Stembridge joins Taraji, 50 Cent, Remy Ma and other celebrities on BET to share reflections of how the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. inspires us today.
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Billion Dollar Challenge Rewards Sweepstakes Grand Prize Winner Announced
U.S. ARMY VET and SINGLE MOTHER OF FIVE WINS $5,000 GRAND PRIZE in the BILLION DOLLAR CHALLENGE REWARDS SWEEPSTAKES Being a solider in the U.S. Army was one of the greatest challenges that Tameka Davis of Fairfield, California faced in life. Her battles with debt proved equally challenging. But after being randomly selected as the […]
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Global Financial Freedom Movement dfree® Continues to Raise the Bar for Economic Empowerment in the African American Community
Organization Founded By DeForest B. Soaries, Jr. Facilitating $1 Billion Consumer Debt Paydown By 2020; 2017 Was a Pivotal Year for Furthering the Billion Dollar Challenge Mission dfree® (www.mydfree.org) the global Financial Freedom Movement that is empowering organizations and individuals to lead richer lives by improving how they think about and manage money, is expected […]
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Living dfree®: December 2017 E-Magazine
Shanice and Flex Alexander get candid about love and money; dfree® focuses on Generational Wealth – will you leave a legacy? Ring in 2018 with dfree®, and more! Read the December 2017 issue now.
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Former NFL Player Delvin Joyce Shares Steps to Save Money, Delay Gratification
From Rolling Out: Delvin Joyce is a former professional athlete. He joined the financial services industry and started working at Prudential in 2006 and held several leadership roles in addition to working as a financial planner. Learn more about Delvin’s money lessons…
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Lynnette Khalfani-Cox
Michelle Singletary
The Budgetnista
Jessica Brown
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Randal Pinkett
Steve Cooper
