Financial Wellness Resources

What is Financial Wellness?

The term financial wellness refers to understanding how to effectively manage household finances, handle debt, create a budget, and build savings. Working toward financial wellness can set you up for a lifetime of financial health. As a trusted national nonprofit, GreenPath can be part of your lifelong journey to financial wellness, especially in the areas of managing personal finances, budgeting, saving, and managing debt.

Listed below are some financial wellness resources.

Meet our partner, GreenPath Financial Wellness

As a community bank, we understand the importance of financial wellness and the freedom and peace of mind it can bring. We could all use a little help with that right now. We’ve partnered with GreenPath Financial Wellness to provide you with access to their counselors and their services*.

Financial Wellness Resources

• Financial wellness resource articles: Find information and tips on a range of financial wellness topics.
• Credit Report Review: Studies show 1 in 3 Americans never check their credit report yet knowing credit history is key to financial wellness. Regularly monitoring your credit can alert you to errors, protect you from fraud, and provide important information to strengthen your credit score. GreenPath’s NFCC-certified credit counselors can walk you through a free review of your credit report. You’ll understand how to read your report and how credit scoring works.
• Financial Calculators: Understanding your current situation can lead to a healthy financial future. Online financial calculators help you run the numbers and answer questions related to financing your home or the impact of interest on any outstanding credit card debt.
• Financial Terms Glossary: Understanding terms like interest rates, compound interest, balloon payments, secured vs. unsecured debt and other concepts help you get a working knowledge of personal finances, from understanding the steps to take to finance a car to managing consumer credit cards.
• On-Demand Webinars: Our on-demand educational webinars showcasing personal finance topics are convenient and easy to use. GreenPath offers a comprehensive library of educational webinars to view on your own schedule. From budgeting, managing student loans, building credit, as well as other topics, free access to the educational webinars gets you well on your way to financial literacy. Join the financial wellness discussion.
• Podcasts: Looking for a good podcast to listen to on your commute into work? Follow the GreenPath Real Stories podcast for financial advice from their experts and hear from people who have turned around their financial situation using GreenPath’s services. Listen in for more on financial wellness.
• Worksheets and Guides: Knowledge is Power! Print out and use GreenPath’s worksheets and guides to build your financial acumen. Create a budget and more.

About GreenPath

GreenPath Financial Wellness is a national nonprofit organization that provides financial counseling, education and products to empower people to lead financially healthy lives. GreenPath has assisted millions of people with debt and credit management, homeownership education and foreclosure prevention. They are a member of the National Foundation for Credit Counseling (NFCC) and are accredited by the Council on Accreditation (COA).

How can GreenPath help you?

Whatever your financial goals are, GreenPath can help you get there. They provide a wide range of services from a financial wellness “checkup” to budget creation, online courses, specialized financial counseling and even debt management plans.