The Business of Me

Nancy began by presenting the program in Battered Women’s shelters in New York and New Jersey to groups of shelter residents who needed to learn personal financial management skills  in order to transition from residential shelters into new homes and to create new lives for themselves. The program has been a success from the beginning.

The problem of spousal abuse has always been endemic. Today, due to the economic crisis, it has become an epidemic.

Hearing the call, and after retiring from an accomplished business career, Nancy has undertaken to adapt and expand “The Business of Me” into a curriculum that can be presented by Case Workers, or, what the program calls “Moderators”, within the shelters vastly expanding the reach of the program and the program  that can now be brought to women in need everywhere.

“The Business of Me” is innovative, unique and visionary. The program is different from other workshops in budgeting and financial management in that it takes a holistic approach to helping women survivors of domestic violence achieve personal financial health by teaching them real-world financial management skills. The program addresses abused women's fears of money, fears that can be crippling and acute and that can often block their paths to financial stability.

Uniquely, at the end of the six weekly sessions of the program the women in the group form a support group that begins to meet monthly. 

It has been an honor for me to support Nancy in this great effort. I’ve had the opportunity to use my experience in business and the Internet to help Nancy formalize her thoughts. I will continue to help “The Business of Me” expand by utilizing my marketing, administrative and Internet skills. I am so fortunate to have the opportunity to join her in helping to change the lives of so many women in need.