Mobile App Monday - Visual Budget: Expense Tracking and Budget Management

Looking for a visual budgeting app? With Visual Budget, easily manage your personal and business accounts using powerful, advanced analysis and consolidation features. Assign a budget to every category, and accurately monitor the evolution of your income and expenses.

The application comes with an example account featuring a dozen transactions which will allow you to quickly become familiar with it. 

Want to learn more? Please visit:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/visual-budget-expense-tracking/id458571562?mt=8

Monroe County Money Smart Week

$$Money $mart Week$$

Wondering where to refer clients with disabilities who need to become more financially savvy? On Friday, October 14th at the Monroe County Public Library, there will be a Kickoff Event and Fair to the Monroe County Money Smart Week. Gather in the public library's atrium where Bloomington's mayor and members of local financial literacy groups will discuss the events for the week. Local service providers will also be on hand to  show off the tools needed to master finances.

For service providers:
On Monday, October 17, 2011 from 3:15-5:00 pm at Bloomington City Hall, providers who serve people from Monroe, Brown, Greene, and Owen counties will come together to share information about their services and to connect with colleagues.

Registration is from 2:45 to 3:15 pm. From 3:15 to 4:40 pm, each organization will have two minutes to share about their programs that help clients become and stay financially stable. After the event, there will be a reception in the atrium where you can enjoy refreshments and pick up brochures from other agencies. Feel free to bring your brochures -- about 50 copies -- to place on the information tables in the atrium.

RSVP by Friday, October 7 to Ashley Hall at ash@monroeunitedway.org. In your RSVP, please indicate if you would like to give a brief (2 minute) presentation about your programs and services and/or if you would like to bring brochures for the resource tables.

For more information, contact Ashley Hall at United Way of Monroe County: 812-334-8370 or ash@monroeunitedway.org

Financial Stability for People with Disabilities

The folks at the IIDC's Center on Community Living and Careers have developed a series of webpages answering questions about financial stability and bringing awareness of the need for building financial assets for people with disabilities and achieving goals such as saving money to purchase a house or to start a business. Some of the pages developed are devoted to learning financial literacy such as money management and understanding terms and concepts. They also have a series of pages developed specifically for family members.

Take a look at CCLC's Financial Stability pages at: http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/index.php?pageId=3394

Managing Money

Interested in ensuring that people with disabilities understand money management? Need help teaching a student how to balance a checkbook? Check out the book, Managing my money: Banking and budgeting basics. It offers the student clear instructions broken down into small steps and opportunities to practice what is being taught. Color-coded forms and large scale graphics help round out the instruction. Teacher pages are included that face the lesson pages as well as a CD-ROM with more forms that can be printed out. Learn how to:

• Keep Records
• Keep a Budget
• Keep a Checking Account

Indiana residents can email us at cedir@indiana.edu to check out this book. Otherwise, try worldcat.org to find it in a library nearby.