Promising Practices to Encourage Savings at Tax Time - Recorded Live Webinar FY18

Target Audience: VITA Site Coordinators and others involved with financial empowerment

Learn to identify and use promising practices for how you offer saving opportunities to taxpayers. We will explore what has worked in VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) program sites around the country, and share information with one another on what different Massachusetts organizations have tried and plan to implement during the current tax season. As a result of this webinar, you will learn:

• Why to provide opportunities to save
• 10 promising practices that encourage saving and how they work in the field
• Common approaches to developing strategies
• How to build an environment throughout the tax site that encourages savings and financial empowerment
• How to make “savings encouragement” part of your commitment to high-quality service to taxpayers

Presenters: JC Craig, Principal at JC Craig Consulting, and Martha Rogers, Financial Literacy Grants Manager at MASSCAP