>> 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.