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Category: Penny Forward
Welcome to Penny Forward, a nonprofit organization founded and led by blind people. We empower each other to confidently navigate the complicated landscape of personal finance. We offer self-paced online financial education courses, weekly and monthly personal finance workshops, and one to one financial counseling provided by blind financial counselors.
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Wednesday Workshop: YNAB Workshop
Our February 28th Wednesday Workshop with YNAB was so well-received, we are making it available for everyone! Transcription To enjoy this content, simply sign up for a Penny Forward membership. If you’re already a member, just log in using the form below. We’re excited to have you on board! Username or E-mail Password Remember Me…
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Taxpayers: Get accessible tax info and forms from the IRS Alternative Media Center
The IRS Alternative Media Center provides a variety of accessible services to help people who use assistive technology such as screen reading software, refreshable Braille displays, screen magnifying software and voice recognition software. Anyone can view and download hundreds of tax forms and publications in alternative formats, including: Text only. Braille-ready files. Browser-friendly HTML. Accessible…
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Wednesday Workshop: Technology and Techniques to Keep Us Organized
Guest members and site visitors will need to upgrade or create an account to get access to this recording. In this workshop, we explored various strategies and tools for securely storing and organizing financial documents, including popular cloud services like Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive. Additionally, we discussed software, apps, accessories, and products that can…
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Moving Forward: Investing In My Success Through Improved O&M
A Message from Penny Forward Founder and CEO, Chris Peterson I’m coming to you today with something a bit different than our usual finance talk. It’s a story, my story from the past week, that I think speaks volumes about how we’re more than just our bank accounts. It’s about growing, learning, and pushing past…
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Wednesday Workshop: What to Keep and What to Toss Financial Documents
This week we discussed items you should be able to toss, and what items you need to keep around. Remember this information is typical situations, and if you have questions about items you have specifically please reach out to us privately or to your tax or other accounting professional. Recording Guest members and site visitors…
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Podcast: Taxes With A Blind CPA with guest Cody Bair
In this episode of the Penny Forward podcast, hosts Chris Peterson and MOe Carpenter are joined by Cody Bair, a blind CPA from Colorado who specializes in research and development tax credits. With co-host Liz Bottner attending the American Council of the Blind D.C. Leadership Conference, the conversation is focused on understanding taxes from a…
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How I Went to Open a CD and Stopped my Mortgage Insurance Instead
MOe here… It may be no secret to many of you, if you are in our Penny Forward Facebook group, that a huge goal of mine was to pay down my mortgage to the point of the mortgage insurance dropping off our monthly payments. We, and by this I mean my husband and I, had…