Project Promise Poverty Coalition
Analysis & Information Committee
Brainstorming Session
07/30/2009 1-4pm at Goodwill Industries
Introductions: Participants shared who they were and why they were brought to the table. Participants included:
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Eileen Daly |
Habitat for Humanity |
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Ron Turner |
FISC/ CCCS NEWI |
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Rick Sense |
Community First Credit Union |
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Dorothy Olson |
Housing Partnership |
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Kristi Cutts |
UW-Extension Winnebago County |
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Christine Garstka |
Catholic Charities |
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Dar Sengkhammee |
Catholic Charities |
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Phil Jankowski |
Lakeview Credit Union |
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Barb Sheraski |
Community Member |
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Jennifer Behrens |
Thrivent Financial - Fitness Club |
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Kathryn Arias |
Community Member |
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Jennifer Lehner |
Big Brothers Big Sisters |
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Mary Bloomer |
Goodwill Industries NCW |
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Jeff Williams |
Kimberly Clark |
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Rhonda Hannemann |
United Way Fox Cities |
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Lyle Verstegen |
ESTHER/ Circles of Support |
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Mito Kudaka |
Goodwill Industries NCW |
Instructions: The group created their own guidelines for the brainstorming process, including:
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supportive listening |
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respect |
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speak your mind |
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agree to disagree |
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respect others' opinoins |
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confidentiality |
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assume good intentions |
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stay on task |
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don't personalize |
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participate |
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have fun |
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use time wisely |
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don't interrupt/ one mtg. at a time |
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trust the process |
Defining the question: Why are some people who are in poverty in the Fox Valley not financially literate?
Possible Reasons for Financial Illiteracy: The group took time to brainstorm as many reasons as they could think of by writing their thoughts on individual post its. Each took time to share their brainstorming results.
Grouping of Reasons: With the ideas given, the reasons were grouped into different categories: Skill, Opportunity, Internal Motivators and External Motivators.
Prioritizing of Reasons: Once ideas were categorized, the group divided into 2 smaller groups to further sub-categorize the ideas and voted on which ideas seemed to be the most probable causes for financial illiteracy in the Fox Valley.
Results:
Financially responsible behavior was not modeled
Financial information was not provided at the appropriate time in their life
Individuals were not aware of resources available to learn this information
Individuals have been dependent on others in the past
Individuals experience pressure to spend
Being financially responsible/accountable is not a core value