Opportunity Alliance Nevada

To build financial stability for all Nevadans

Are You Struggling Financially?

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    • Are you feeling economic and financial stress?

    • Do you know how you will make ends meet? 

    • Do you need help prioritizing current bills and expenses?

If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, we’re here to help you! We’re volunteers, not paid professionals, and we’ll walk with you to help navigate your finances.

We will connect you with a Volunteer Financial Navigator to answer your questions so that you can actually be better off after the crisis than before.

Volunteer Financial Navigators (For Individuals)

This is a one-on-one, virtual, support service using volunteers. They will not be licensed professionals, but folks with backgrounds that can work with clients to assist with a Savings and Spending plan and personal Navigation plan for a more sustainable future.

To request a Volunteer Financial Navigator (a FREE service), please complete the form below & click “submit” at the bottom of the form. Start the conversation!


Please Note: Filling out and submitting the form above means you’re asking to be connected to a service provider. Once completed, your information will be sent to Opportunity Alliance Nevada where you’d like to receive their services. Someone from their team will contact you within two business days.

Please use this form only to request services for yourself or a child (under 18 years old) or adult for whom you have legal guardianship. Consent submitted through this form should be signed by the person who would be receiving services or by their parent or legal guardian only.

Opening the Door to Homeownership Through Financial Capability

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Buying a home for the first time is exciting for anyone, but for Xiomarys, homeownership is especially sweet. By working with The Caleb Group and diligently saving every month, Xiomarys, the first person in her family to own a home, purchased a manufactured home to share with her daughter. The programs made available to Xiomarys and her family not only ensures stable housing, it also underscores the importance of manufactured housing as an affordable form of homeownership.

To save enough money to purchase her home, Xiomarys participated in HUD’s Family Self Sufficiency (FSS) program, which has been offered by The Caleb Group since 2014. The FFS program allows public housing residents in project-based housing, and more recently private Section 8 properties, to save a portion of their monthly rent in escrow towards the goal of homeownership. The Caleb Group partnered with Compass Working Capital to provide FSS participants with financial coaching, which is a crucial component of helping families like Xiomarys’ reach their financial goals. With the help of coaches and the support of her Caleb Group service coordinator, Xiomarys set goals, resolved credit issues, created and worked within a budget. She increased her income which raised her rent, and through the FSS program was able to save her rent differentials. After accumulating these savings, Xiomarys worked with her service coordinator, bankers and real estate agents to purchase her first home.

The Caleb Group’s innovative partnership with Compass Working Capital highlights the opportunity for housing organizations to offer financial capability services to their residents, and in particular the ability to leverage the opportunities that FSS offers. The integration of housing and financial capability services provides a holistic way to foster financial stability through coordination of services for wealth-building. In this integrated model, residents may move into homeownership, which is itself a wealth-building tool. Furthermore, manufactured housing provides the nation’s largest source of unsubsidized affordable housing and can and should be an important and increasing asset for families looking to build wealth.

The opportunities created through financial capability services and manufactured housing have provided Xiomarys and her family with a path to wealth-building. Prosperity Now continues to support the integration of housing and financial capability so that more organizations can provide this holistic model of service delivery.

Source: Prosperity Now

Gaining Financial Security Through Housing

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Too often, financial instability and housing instability go hand-in-hand for low- and moderate-income families. While housing organizations across the country seek to provide consistent, stable, affordable housing, many of these organizations’ clients continue to struggle with financial challenges—poor credit, lack of savings, high debt, low or variable incomes, and more—that make it difficult for them to get by, much less get ahead.

Research has shown that financial capability services can help individuals increase their financial security and break down barriers to securing and maintaining stable housing. These financial capability services, such as financial coaching and free tax preparation, are most effective when service providers meet people where they are—not only in terms of their skills and abilities, but also at the locations where they are already receiving services. Integrating financial capability services into housing programs allows for a holistic approach that not only meets the immediate housing needs of low and moderate-income families, but also equips them to achieve longer-term financial stability.

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