Powercat Financial is a nationally recognized program open to all students, providing free, confidential financial guidance to students to assist them in their transition from financial dependence to financial independence. Since opening they have presented to over 55,000 students on topics ranging from budgeting to student loan repayment and transitioning to work. Their office has held more than 5,000 individual one-on-one appointments.
During these appointments students can create a personalized college financial plan or learn about budgeting, saving, credit, student loan repayment, and transitioning to work. What makes this program so remarkable is that they hire and train students who are seeking pre-professional financial counseling experience to serve as peer financial counselor. Students train and study for an entire semester to become qualified.
All this month, donations to the K-State Parents and Family Fund will be used to hire and train additional student counselors. This will help the program reach more students with financial education assistance while providing real world experience to students studying to become financial professionals.
As a jumpstart to this effort, $1,000 was raised on Giving Tuesday and we hope to double this amount by the end of December!
I hope you’ll add this program that can truly make a difference to a student’s life to your holiday list this year. Contributions can be made here: www.ksufoundation.org/give/pfp