Who Says Credit Card Companies Dont Care!
Consumer Action and American Express today announced plans to expand their jointly developed credit card education program with free training events scheduled for three additional cities in 2007.
The program, called “Credit Cards: What You Need to Know,” is centered on a training module with a curriculum and educational brochures, translated into five languages, that are distributed to the more than 9,000 community-based organizations within Consumer Action’s network to educate consumers about how to best choose and use credit cards.
American Express and Consumer Action launched the program in 2005 with a training event in Oakland, California. Since then, educators have been trained in Washington D.C, Dallas and New York, enabling them to educate consumers about credit cards in their local communities. Last year, American Express and Consumer Action awarded $82,250 to 30 agencies that had been trained at the project’s training meetings to support their own education activities and the use of the materials. American Express and Consumer Action will hold three training events this year in: Plantation, Florida; Phoenix, Arizona and Birmingham, Alabama.