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Inger Giuffrida
Inger Giuffrida
Member since 2006
4212 Blue Sage Road
Norman,
OK
73072
Phone: 405-364-4462
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Inger Giuffrida is a training and technical assistance consultant focusing on financial literacy education and asset building strategies. Her clients have included Community Action Project of Tulsa County, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED), NeighborWorks America, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, Association for Enterprise Opportunities, Share Our Strength, the Housing and Community Development Network of NJ, Northwest New Mexico Community Development Corporation, Community Action New Mexico, Development Services Group, Inc., Missouri Association of Community Action, North Carolina Department of Labor, Office of Community Services/Assets for Independence Program, ISED Solutions, Foundation for the Mid South, Wyoming Women’s Business Center, WORC, United Way of America, Rural Cap (Alaska), Ohio CDC Association, and others.
Inger has been working primarily as a practitioner in the microenterprise and asset development fields internationally and domestically for fifteen years. She began her career as part of a team that formed the second federally chartered student owned and operated credit union in the country. She continued with asset development work as a Peace Corp Volunteer in Kenya, East Africa as a Small Business Development Specialist. She continued with the Peace Corps after completing her service as the in country trainer for business development. Following her three years in international development, she developed and implemented comprehensive microenterprise development programs for Grand Rapids Opportunities for Women (GROW) first as program director and then as the organization’s executive director and at Alternatives Federal Credit Union. She created and launched financial literacy education programs for both of those organizations. At GROW she developed an IDA program (one of the first in the country prior to ADD) and supported the IDA program at Alternatives.
Inger was also the Program Director for the Individual Assets Department at the Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED). In that role she conceptualized, developed, field tested and delivered the IDA Training Institute, conducted the research for and authored Individual Development Accounts for Youth Lessons from an Emerging Field, which included primary data collection from focus groups, and managed all of the field services work including the relaunch of the IDAnetwork and the national IDA VISTA project. She also managed the first international IDA Learning Conference in 2002.
She is the founder and current director of the Assets Alliance, a network of consultants in the IDA and asset-building fields committed to expanding the number of individuals and families participating in asset-building opportunities by advancing communications within the field and sharing effective practices, resources and tools with the field and among IDA technical assistance providers.
She has provided training to thousands of practitioners in the IDA, microenterprise and asset-building fields on IDAs, financial education, asset building, linking tax preparation and asset building, and microenterprise development. She wrote Finding Paths to Prosperity a nationally distributed financial literacy curriculum (both the facilitator’s guide and the participants’ workbook), Share Our Strength/Operation Frontline’s Saving Smart, Spending Smart, Youth IDAs Lessons from an Emerging Field, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Your Values, Your Choices, Your Money and More Than Money Matters and numerous articles. She has also developed a nationally distributed financial education training of trainers (independent of a specific curriculum) and is current working on the Asset Building Institute, a comprehensive training on designing and implementing asset building strategies for communities and market segments within them to achieve intended outcomes.
Inger has an M.B.A. from Western Michigan University, which she earned while working full-time as Executive Director for GROW, and a B.S. in Business Administration with a concentration in criminology from Miami University. She has been a member of numerous boards of directors and an active community volunteer.
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