Vision with an Edge Seminar Series mark you calendars to attend. All workshops are FREE for more information contact Sandy Cha at 559-437-3068 or sandy.cha@wellsfargo.com.
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September 25th, 2007 :
Sandy Cha & Martha Lucey - Wells Fargo Bank - Managing Your Credit and Avoiding Foreclosure
Martha Lucey is the President & C.E.O. of ByDesign Financial Solutions. She has been with ByDesign, and its predecessor Consumer Credit Counseling Service, for six years.
As an advocate for the role personal finance education can play in people’s lives, Martha strives to ensure that consumers throughout California have access to high-quality, ethical counseling services and education. Under her leadership, ByDesign has expanded financial education services for young adults, seniors and the underserved. Most recently, Martha has been working to advocate on behalf of homeowners facing foreclosure, to raise awareness of the difficulties homeowners face in finding workout solutions and to find effective strategies to preserve homeownership.
Martha is actively involved community as a Board Member of the Family Self-Sufficiency Corp. of the Fresno Housing Authority, a member of the No Homeowner Left Behind collaborative, and as a member of the FDIC’s Fresno Financial Education Advisory Committee.
A native of Rochester, New York, Martha holds a B.S. in Business Logistics from Penn State and an M.B.A. from Case Western Reserve.
Overview of ByDesign
ByDesign Financial Solutions is dedicated to changing lives through financial education. As a member of the National Foundation for Credit Counseling (NFCC), and established more than 40 years ago, ByDesign offers personal finance education, confidential individual debt and housing counseling, and the implementation of debt reduction plans in offices located in the Fresno, Los Angeles, Sacramento and Stockton areas.
A Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)-approved counseling agency, the group also offers home pre-purchase counseling and education, reverse mortgage counseling, as well as default and foreclosure prevention and intervention. ByDesign Financial Solutions is a member of the California and Nevada Youth Involvement Network (CNYIN), California Jump$tart, and is accredited by the Council On Accreditation (COA) for Families and Children. ByDesign is approved by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Executive Office for United States Trustees (EOUST). ByDesign is a member of the Better Business Bureau and is a United Way endorsed organization.
Here what others say about FCWCC:
I would like to thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak at your recent meeting. The FCWCC audience is very knowledgeable and responsive. From a speaker’s perspective, it is highly enjoyable presenting at your meetings.
John Savrnoch - Assistant District Attorney County of Fresno
Thank you so much for your hard work in organizing the How to Write a Business Plan Seminar last week. Please pass along my thanks to Sharon as well for her wonderful work in facilitating the meeting and directing the discussion. I thought the class size was just right because we were able to dialogue and learn from one another as well as from Sharon. There was a lot of conversation and input from around the table which really added to my understanding. The handouts were perfect. I am able to really go through them for assistance in putting my own plan in place. I feel empowered to do this now. It doesn’t seem like a daunting thing at all – but a very wise, and savvy way to keep track of our current and future growth plans. Thank you again. These seminars put on by the Women’s Chamber are now at the top of my list of things to make sure to put in my calendar. I appreciated the time of this one too – a lunchtime meeting works very well for my schedule! And we started on time and ended on time!!
Way to go, Sandy and Sharon!
Liesl Garner - GARNER TREE Services
