Access to knowledge, not luck, should decide who gets ahead.

Friends With Purpose provides free financial education to low-income families, communities, and individuals across Connecticut, creating opportunities and financial stability for them. Our services include job interview training and opportunities, budgeting advice, benefits navigation, and personalized one-to-one financial education.

Financial illiteracy and lack of access to basic financial knowledge are real barriers that keep individuals and families from building stability. We believe these gaps are often a matter of access to information, not ability, and that the right knowledge at the right moment can create real change in our community.

Our values and beliefs as people are deeply rooted in our background. Born and raised in Texas and Connecticut, we understand the luck and opportunities we have been given throughout our lives, and we plan to spread those same opportunities to the community that has given so much to us. We believe growth as a person is built on the connections developed around us, and that same foundation is the building block of our organization.

Humility, kindness, and knowledge are what we hope to lead by in any conversation we have.

Bringing meaningful advice and work to a community that could use it, without expecting anything in return, is the very ideology that makes a community a family. We hope to use the opportunities and backgrounds we have been given to help those who need it.