Community Partner Workshops

Community partners are often helping people make major life decisions with limited time, limited resources, and a lot of pressure. Proofing Dough community partner workshops give participants valuable tools for understanding credit, debt, budgeting, homeownership readiness, and the money habits shaping their daily decisions. These sessions support the work your organization is already doing by giving clients clear language, structure, and next steps they can use after the workshop ends.

Community partner workshops are built for:

  • Partners who need financial education taught by a trained and experienced personal finance professional
  • Nonprofit organizations
  • Housing providers
  • Schools and colleges
  • Workforce development programs
  • Public agencies
  • Community-based organizations
  • First-time homebuyer programs
  • Organizations serving working households and families building financial stability

Workshop topics:

The Debt Plan - Helps participants stop guessing and start organizing and managing their debt with a clear, realistic payoff structure. This workshop covers debt inventory, payment priorities, money psychology unpacking for successful debt management.

The Credit Clean Up Plan - Helps participants understand what's actually showing on their credit reports and guided steps on rebuilding credit. This workshop covers credit report review, dispute basics, payment history review, utilization, collections, rebuilding steps and how credit decisions affect borrowing power.

How these workshops can help clients:

  • Better understand the financial systems they are trying to navigate
  • Connect credit, debt, income, and behavior in an understandable way
  • Develop the capacity to make clearer credit, debt, and spending choices
  • Prepare for housing, employment, homeownership, or financial stability goals
  • Reduce confusion around financial next steps
  • Build financial confidence to effectively navigate money

Community partner workshop pricing and participant capacity:

All qualifying community partners may access reduced-rate workshop pricing based on organization type, funding source, program score and community-access goals. Each workshop includes professional instruction and one printed workbook for each registered participant. The listed base fee covers up to 10 registered participants. Ask about discounted bulk merchandise orders. Applicable tax to be applied.

The Debt Plan 

2 hour workshop, up to 10 attendees: Base fee $500 + applicable tax
Add $75 for each additional attendee above 10.

The Credit Clean Up

Two 2-hour sessions, up to 10 attendees: $1,250 + applicable tax
Add $150 for each additional attendee above 10.

Proofing Dough reserves a limited number of reduced-rate workshops for qualifying nonprofits, housing providers, schools, workforce programs, public agencies, and mission-aligned community organizations. Reduced-rate community partner pricing is available only for approved nonprofit, public-serving or community organizations using standard Proofing Dough workshops to expand participant access, where adequate designated funding for institutional pricing is not available or where Proofing Dough documents a specific strategic justification. Funded programs, financial institutions, employers and customized engagements are quoted at institutional or custom rates.