*Los Angeles, CA – The Los Angeles-based, Cheyenne Martin Foundation (CMF) hosts a number of events in Los Angeles, California and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. To date, the nonprofit’s annual events, include charity drives for the back-to-school season, and Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays.
On Tuesday, July 24, 2018, from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, at the Junior Achievement Finance Park, CMF will sponsor a full day of education to 55 young women. The young women, ages 12 to 18 are from the YMCA in San Fernando and Life Line Charter School in Compton.
During the program, at the JA Finance Park, the young women will be given a unique life profile after answering a series of future lifestyle questions. Their life profile includes an income, marital status, and even kids. Using this new adult persona, they work to create a balanced monthly budget while making decision regarding housing, transportation, insurance, savings, entertainment expenses and more.
The JA Finance Park program will teach:
- The difference between debit and credit
- How to budget for personal expense
- Why savings is important
- How much money they need to earn to support themselves
- How to set up checking and savings accounts
The first part of the day is about how adults live. The young women go to their assigned business to meet their volunteer, where they will then check out an iPad from their volunteer. They then discover the adult identity they will assume and conduct research. They then join volunteers and visit each business and read and discuss information for each budget category. Next, the young women build a monthly budget, informed by their research and volunteer discussion.
Lastly, the young women learn about responsible spending and budgeting. They visit each business on their iPad to make their shopping selections. They then visit each storefront in JA Finance Park to pay for all their shopping selections. During the last portion of the day, they receive a final report that details their life scenario and decisions.
For donation or volunteer opportunities:
www.CheyenneMartinFoundation.org Or: [email protected]
About Cheyenne Martin
Cheyenne Martin, Founder and Executive Director of Cheyenne Martin Foundation, has been giving advice and encouragement to women for almost her entire life. Through her Foundation, Martin strives to empower women, giving back to them the kinds of opportunities, inspiration, and drive to succeed and better oneself that she has received throughout her life and career thus far. Martin has been as intensely committed to helping other women and encouraging them to constantly reach for their own goals as she has her own.
Martin was active in the “Hoops for Hope” charity basketball game held at the Los Angeles Staples Center, and she was part of the “I Am Truth” campaign event of the Star Foundation, shot by famed photographer Adam Brouska (founder of NoH8). Ultimately, she again sought to grow and build on her knowledge and experience, deciding to establish her own foundation, and in 2015, she founded and established the Cheyenne Martin Foundation a 501©3 non-profit organization.
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