Associate Director of Programs and Partnerships, Neighborhood Trust Financial Partners

>> My name's Joseph [inaudible]. I am an associate director of programs, focusing on partnerships for a non profit here in the city. We focus completely on financial empowerment. So we focus on financial empowerment for low income communities in New York City. So we do kind of 2 main programs. One of them is a workshop series for low income adults. So you'll have a group of, say, 15 adults who go through a 5 week program taught by an instructor and it covers a different piece of financial empowerment every week. So credit, debt, budgeting, money management, that type of thing. So you know our partners are in charge of recruiting the adults who are going to participate in those workshops and hosting and creating a space for our financial advisors. Those are our kind of direct service providers. To do their work. So I work a lot on that program and making it happen, really. And then we also do a lot of individual financial counseling. So we have some of our staff in city offices around the city. And they meet with adults one on one who might have called on to the city hotline or might have been referred by a social program that we work with just for general assistance on their personal finances. We also do a lot of work with businesses, and that's a new program we offer. So we're trying to be in the workplace, especially in workplaces that have a lot of low income staff to kind of be where people already are who might need our assistance around credit, debt, banking, any kind of financial topics. My day, it changes every day. I would say I'm usually in the office. I have a lot of meetings with my coworkers. I'm on the middle management team. So I kind of am in and out of meetings. I supervise a program coordinator who manages the scheduling and logistics of all of our direct service workers. So I do a lot of work directly with him and I also do a lot of management with our partnership. So all of our programs are run out of external agencies. So I do a lot of phone calls and site visits and meetings with our partners just to keep our programs running smoothly, work on our outcome numbers. It really varies. We also always have projects going on just to improve our internal communications and how our organization operates. And so I collaborate on those a lot.