ProsperityME welcomes UCU’s Ridge to Advertising and marketing & Growth Committee

PORTLAND – ProsperityME has appointed UCU Community Engagement Supervisor and licensed money counselor Lesley Ridge to the organization’s volunteer Advertising and marketing & Improvement Committee. Launched in 2008 by Claude Rwaganje — a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo — ProsperityME is a non-income service organization devoted to serving to Maine’s immigrants and refugees create successful, fulfilling lives in their new homeland.

ProsperityME gives economical products and services, like economical literacy classes, a person-on-one particular money counseling and coaching, counseling for greater instruction, tiny business help, and partnering with other corporations on workforce development. Products and services are open to all refugees, immigrants, asylees, and low-cash flow persons in Better Portland and Lewiston-Auburn, Maine. For far more information and facts, visit http://www.prosperityme.org.

“Lesley’s working experience and schooling as a licensed money counselor and her neighborhood engagement position with College Credit score Union properly enhance our perform at ProsperityME, assisting all who find to make new life right here in Maine by way of money literacy, career and small small business development, volunteerism and community company,” claimed Megan Piper, ProsperityME Board member and chair of the Promoting & Progress Committee.

As a single of UCU’s Community Engagement Professionals, Ridge signifies the credit union in communities all over the condition, participating with users, firms, nonprofits, area leaders, and other individuals to assistance fiscal literacy, volunteerism, and community provider. At first from Gardiner, she is a happy graduate of the University of Southern Maine and may well be a familiar encounter to a lot of on the USM campus, owning beforehand served as campus department manager of the USM Brooks Scholar Centre location.

Ridge joined UCU in 2011 adhering to a prolonged profession in human sources with a massive regional grocery store. A Accredited Credit score Union Economical Counselor, she enjoys volunteering with nearby nonprofits and bringing economical literacy to college students of all ages which include volunteering at the Boys and Women Club of Southern ME, Wayside Food stuff Applications, United…