Offers one-on-one credit counseling for individuals and families in need of assistance in increasing their credit score to pre-qualify for a mortgage.

Money Management International are specialists in the areas of money management, credit cards, budgeting, and debt reduction. We offer credit counseling over the telephone, online, and face-to-face at one of our 50+ branches across the nation.

Provides financial counseling which includes a review of income, expenses, and debt to create a plan for achieving financial goals. Offers tips on money management and alternatives for handling financial crisis. A wide range of education presentations, workshops and classes are available to groups of people of all ages on a wide variety of topics. The Debt Repayment Plan is licensed through the New York State Banking Department, and in addition to the financial counseling offers negotiated repayments in order to repay creditors and avoid bankruptcy. Also provides counseling for student loans.

Clients receive budget counseling, debt management and credit restoration services via Certified Credit Counselors. We prepare an action plan to reduce debt and improve credit scores.

Negotiates lower interest rates and waived late fees with your current creditors so you can pay off debt. Debts can include credit cards, collections, medical debts, payday loans, old utility accounts, and past cell phone accounts.

Provides services to help individuals make better decisions about their finances and housing finances and to help others who need help with debt or credit card problems. Services include, debt management, credit counseling, housing counseling, credit card debt, and personal finances.

Provides free and confidential, phone or in person counseling, where a counselor analyzes income and debt, foreclosure, etc and develops a budget and action plan, and recommends a solution. If individual qualifies for and chooses to begin a Debt Management Program, counselor will negotiate payment terms and concessions with creditors. Also provides workshops and online resources that teaches how to improve money management skills and other financial help.

Consumer Credit Counseling will help clients understand their credit report, explain their credit rights, show the client how to dispute errors and help develop a plan to improve the client's credit history.

Pre-purchase budget reviews and referrals to private lenders and government agencies, as well as default counseling to avoid foreclosure.

Money Management International are specialists in the areas of money management, credit cards, budgeting, and debt reduction. We offer credit counseling over the telephone, online, and face-to-face at one of our 50+ branches across the nation.

Can provide the credit counseling and debtor education required for anyone filing for personal bankruptcy.

Offers budget and debt counseling to those who need help with budgeting, money management skills, and credit issues.

Provides educational workshops for individuals, families, business owners and others that deal with the essentials of money management, asset building and financial independence.

Services include budget planning, financial education, resource referral, and debt management. Debt management is a renegotiation of the unsecured debts owed by a client with their creditors in order to get better repayment terms such as lower interest rates, waiving or reduction of fees, and re-aging of accounts in exchange for a consistent consolidated monthly payment made by the client. This is NOT a debt settlement program.

Offers one-on-one HUD approved housing counseling designed to present the basics of personal finances, to help establish good credit and/or repair bad credit, to assist participants in making the transition from renter to owner or to help resolve mortgage delinquency and/or prevent foreclosure.

Provides financial counseling which includes a review of income, expenses, and debt to create a plan for achieving financial goals. Offers tips on money management and alternatives for handling financial crisis. A wide range of education presentations, workshops and classes are available to groups of people of all ages on a wide variety of topics. The Debt Repayment Plan is licensed through the New York State Banking Department, and in addition to the financial counseling offers negotiated repayments in order to repay creditors and avoid bankruptcy. Also provides counseling for student loans.

Offers one-on-one HUD approved housing counseling designed to present the basics of personal finances, to help establish good credit and/or repair bad credit, to assist participants in making the transition from renter to owner or to help resolve mortgage delinquency and/or prevent foreclosure.

Services include budget planning, financial education, resource referral, and debt management. Debt management is a renegotiation of the unsecured debts owed by a client with their creditors in order to get better repayment terms such as lower interest rates, waiving or reduction of fees, and re-aging of accounts in exchange for a consistent consolidated monthly payment made by the client. This is NOT a debt settlement program.

Provides personalized financial management and budgeting education classes to assist families in asset building and work towards financial independence. Programming includes linkages to community resources, creating a budget, meal planning and grocery shopping, and home energy savings tips.

Provides comprehensive housing counseling services to individuals and families. Services include credit counseling, budgeting, pre and post home ownership counseling, foreclosure prevention counseling, and resources for down payment assistance programs.

Trained volunteers meet with individuals to discuss how to make adjustments to household spending on a reduced income, ideas for negotiating with electric and credit companies and also include one-on-one financial counseling for clients as needed as well as to discuss micro business loans and help with start up costs, capital or expansion. These trained volunteers will work with individuals to address crisis situations (foreclosure, garnishes or repossessions) as well as developing budgets that will ease the strain on finances.

Provides counseling and education for those looking to become first time home buyers. Also provides financial capability counseling, mortgage assistance and foreclosure prevention, and fair housing counseling and education. Programs serve as a source of information about ownership, predatory lending, mortgage foreclosure prevention, fair housing, budgeting, handling debt, and credit repair. Provides rental search assistance and limited financial assistance when funding is available (for financial assistance, see separate program listing on FEMA Assistance - Buffalo Urban League).

Provides financial counseling for anyone struggling with debt or wanting to learn how to budget.

Focuses on creating asset development opportunities for both residents and entrepreneurs. Assists individuals in growing and investing in their communities by providing lending capital, training, consulting, technical assistance, seminars, workshops, and low-cost business rental space to new and existing businesses that would otherwise lack access to these services. Assists area residents in developing asset based thinking by providing financial literacy training, basic budgeting, and home appliance loans to combat predatory lenders. Loan programs and Cottage Industry Assistance Program target low to moderate income existing and prospective individuals. Chautauqua Microenterprise Loan Fund and the Women and Minority Microenterprise Loan Fund Programs help small businesses by providing small business start up and expansion loans. The small business incubator offers small businesses an opportunity to grow and stabilize with subsidies around rent, business services, and technical assistance. Serves as a Warming Center during times of excessive cold and as a Cooling Center during times of excessive heat. Always call ahead to make sure a Warming/Cooling Center is open before going there.