Nonviolent Choice Directory: Help With Crisis Pregnancy & Beyond: Finances & Income: Misc.

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HELP WITH CRISIS PREGNANCY & BEYOND: FINANCES & INCOME

Child Support/Child Maintenance
Government Benefits
Financial Literacy
Living on a Small Income
Microcredit, Small Business, & Working at Home
Living Wage, Paid Parental Leave, & Other Human Rights

Financial Literacy

MyMoney.Gov: US Financial Literacy & Education Commission. (English, Spanish.)

Living on a Small Income

The Dollar Stretcher: Living Better for Less.

Frugal Living.

Nutritious, Nonviolent, Eco-Friendly, Even Tasty & Low-Cost Eating .

Raising Kids on a Shoestring. Guide from Feminists for Life.

Microcredit (Microfinance), Small Business, & Working at Home

ACCION International. (English, Spanish, French.) A nonprofit started in 1961 by student volunteers in the favelas (slums) of Caracas, Venezuela, ACCION has offered small but critical loans (microcredit) and other vital services to millions of supposedly "unbankable" low-income small business owners throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, the United States, Africa, and India.

The Abilities Fund. Nationwide (US) resource for disabled people, including disabled women, in or interested in self-employment. You may also wish to check out this list of Vocational Rehabilitation State Offices and Directory of Independent Living Centers and Statewide Independent Living Councils to see what employment/self-employment aid is available to you at the state or local level.

FTC (Federal Trade Commission [US]) Facts for Consumers: Work-At-Home Schemes. (English, Spanish.) It's possible to create and run your own business from your home. Sometimes it's even possible to do good, legitimate work for another employer in your home. But it's important to learn how to recognize and avoid the scams.

Grameen Bank: Banking for the Poor. Global pioneer, based in Bangladesh, in microcredit or microfinance--the lending of small loans to poor people, often women, so they can start their own small businesses.

Microfinance Gateway. (English, French, Arabic.) Everything you ever wanted to know about the subject.

US Small Business Administration. (English, Spanish.) Has tools for planning the start and operation of a small business; offers grant, loans, and other help.

Living Wage, Paid Parental Leave, & Other Income-related Human Rights

MomsRising. Grassroots coalition calling for the USA to really value motherhood and family, through public commitment to maternity/paternity leave, open/flexible work arrangements, afterschool care, children's health care, child care, & gender-equal, living wages. The Nonviolent Choice Directory has applied to be an aligned organization.

Clearinghouse on International Developments in Child, Youth and Family Policies at Columbia University. Lucidly presents credible data to compare "industrialized" nations in these areas. Very interesting to check this information against The Incidence of Abortion Worldwide (has chart of abortion rates by country) and Abortion Policies: A Global Review (has country-by-country profiles).

Universal Living Wage [US].