Why Community Organizations to help families cut costs
Better Serve Members
Not just budgeting
But reducing costs.
Not just today,
But forever.
Solutions that Require Many Member Families
Buying Clubs, Shared Equipment, Community Meals, Demonstrations and Training, Shared Tracking and Outcomes.
Involve Members
Seniors and youth can volunteer to help families tally costs, offer ride and pickup and delivery services, help use apps and devices that cut costs
Strengthen Community
Members will save the most
when they collaborate on
group purchases of food, equipment, services..
Build Long-Term Relationships
Costs will be volatile for years to come.
Offer members needed cost tracking and monitoring tools.
Engage Youth
Families are busy.
Youth can help.
Collecting and analyzing data.
Helping implement cost cutting measures.
Key Community Organizations
Savings Banks and Credit Unions
- Help members cut costs
- Loans based on proven outcomes of cost cutting investments
- Reduce "problem" accounts by helping families cut costs before "under water"
Congregations
- Help members reduce costs
- Expand community meals to include buying clubs based on common menu choices and bulk pricing
- Host student teams to help families tally costs and use AI
Community Libraries
- Host workshops and demonstrations
- Maintain lending libraries of tools, devices, and equipment to lower costs
- Sponsor students cost cutting teams, especially during summer months
More Community Organizations that can help
Schools
- Student Clubs like the Honors Society can volunteer to help families conduct cost assessments, help communities conduct Community Costs and Resources Inventories
- Parent-Teacher
Local Businesses
- Offer lower cost options , highlighted on community's online marketplace
- Sponsor student cost cutting teams
- Offer workshops and demonstrations of devices, apps, and services tha
Community Civic & Social Clubs
- Rotary, Elks, Knights of Columbus, etc. can sponsor Student Teams
- Encourage their members to share costs and ways to cut costs
- Raise funds to buy equipment for lending libraries