Rent-A-Center Strengthens Latino Community's Financial Muscle
Funds Featherstone Foundation's Free Financial Empowerment Programs
BALTIMORE, Oct. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Rent-A-Center (RAC), a national chain of stores offering furniture, computers, electronics and appliances via flexible rental-purchase agreements, has provided a $3,500 grant to support The William & Lanaea C. Featherstone Foundation's financial literacy programs that will improve the lives of Baltimore's Latino community.
"We are delighted to support the important work the Featherstone Foundation is undertaking during Hispanic Heritage month," said Xavier Dominicis, Rent-A-Center's vice president for public affairs.
"I am honored that Rent-A-Center is the inaugural sponsor of our financial empowerment programs," said Lanaea C. Featherstone, president of The William & Lanaea C. Featherstone Foundation. "In these tough times, we believe that access to free financial education in Spanish will accelerate economic growth within the Latino community."
The Featherstone Foundation will offer a series of free seminars in Spanish. It will kick off its initiatives in partnership with other community organizations later this month. For more information, please contact Lanaea Featherstone at [email protected].
The William & Lanaea C. Featherstone Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering, inspiring and impacting the immigrant Latino community. The foundation strives to strengthen cultural understandings of diverse populations through educational training programs. For more information, please visit www.thefeatherstonefoundation.org.
SOURCE The William & Lanaea C. Featherstone Foundation
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