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The Jesse Mecham Show

YNAB for Good

The Jesse Mecham Show

YNAB

Kids & Family, Education

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

In light of the terrible events that have transpired in 2020, YNAB is launching a new initiative to help those in need. YNAB is partnering with non-profit organizations that work with marginalized communities on personal financial and financial resource issues. YNAB is offering licenses for its software for free to these non-profits, so those in need can benefit from YNAB's powerful budgeting tools.

 

If you work for a non-profit or know of one who could benefit from this program, visit https://www.youneedabudget.com/good for more details and how to sign up for the program.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, Wineavers. My name is Jesse Meekam, and this is podcast number 438 for

0:09.2

Wineab, where we teach you four rules to help you stop living paycheck to

0:11.6

paycheck, get out of debt and save more money.

0:15.6

A couple weeks ago we, yeah, a little while ago, we took a step back and in light of some of the horrific events that have taken place of late,

0:29.8

spurred specifically by the killing of George Floyd, we took a look at what we could do to help.

0:40.0

And you know, I'll be honest, I, at first, maybe a lot of people experience this.

0:48.7

At first, I mean, I, I just thought, well, you know, what are we supposed to do as a business I thought what is a business even supposed to do you know this is like

1:00.2

This is for people, not businesses.

1:02.6

It's not, you can't really say that, you know,

1:05.7

but that crossed my mind.

1:08.2

And then, my next thought was, well, my business,

1:11.4

were tiny, we're just this tiny little thing. We are so tiny. What can we do?

1:18.0

And I didn't really feel like there was a lot we could do at first, but not having to sit on it very long.

1:24.1

I realize, well, there is one thing that we as a business do very, very well,

1:28.4

and that is that we help people gain control their money. We help people make better financial decisions. We help

1:36.6

them do the things they should with their money and also get the things they want

1:40.5

with their money. And we can't we just can't solve all the other issues but we can help people make better decisions

1:50.0

so we launched an initiative that I wanted to put out on the podcast as well and this

1:56.4

initiative is an initiative sounds transient like it's going away you know but this is going away. This is going to be around as long as

2:04.8

Wineb is around and it's called Wineb for good and you can read all about it at

2:10.4

Wineb.com slash good. The idea is that if there is a nonprofit organization

2:17.0

that works specifically with marginalized communities that also has as part of their, you know, a component of their work, some kind

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