Economic Empowerment

Money: how to make it, and then make it work for you

The 100 Black Men of Chicago, Inc. promotes and fosters the ability of its mentees, members, and the communities we serve to be self-determined in creating dreams, pursuing them, and ultimately perpetuating those dreams and aspirations by establishing the mechanisms to sustain generational wealth. Through comprehensive curricula and training opportunities, our organization works diligently to promote economic self-sufficiency and break the cycle of Generational disruptive debt. The goal of the 100BMC is to leave a legacy of wealth & credit building, which leads to debt-free living for the youth and communities we serve.

Economic Empowerment Programs include:

Wallet Wise is a free financial education program created to teach consumers the basics of budgeting, credit, banking & investing.

The Dollars and $ense Youth Investment Program is a financial literacy program sponsored by State Farm. This program was designed to provide high school students, grades 9 through 12, with the opportunity to learn and apply best practice strategies for saving and investing.

Hands On Banking, sponsored by Wells Fargo, is designed for fall ages and is an easy and enjoyable way to teach and learn the essentials of financial education: the basics of bank services, the importance of saving, innovative money management, using credit responsibly, investing, wealth building, and more.

The FIRST Program aims to inspire young people to become science & technology leaders and innovators. We empower mentees by engaging them in an exciting, mentor-guided program that builds science, engineering, and technology skills, inspires innovation, and fosters well-rounded life capabilities.