CFP Board Awards $456,063 in Grant Funding to Eight Projects Across the U.S.DENVER Denver, city (1990 pop. 467,610), alt. 5,280 ft (1,609 m), state capital, coextensive with Denver co., N central Colo., on a plateau at the foot of the Front Range of the Rocky Mts., along the South Platte River where Cherry Creek meets it; inc. 1861. -- Certified Financial Planner Certified Financial Planner (CFP) A person who has passed examinations accredited by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, showing that the person is able to manage a client's banking, estate, insurance, investment, and tax affairs. Board of Standards, Inc. (CFP 1. CFP - Constraint Functional Programming. 2. CFP - Communicating Functional Processes. 3. CFP - Call For Papers (for a conference). Board) has made grant awards totaling $456,063 to eight projects that are developing innovative and sustainable methods of delivering the benefits of financial planning Financial planning Evaluating the investing and financing options available to a firm. Planning includes attempting to make optimal decisions, projecting the consequences of these decisions for the firm in the form of a financial plan, and then comparing future performance against to communities not traditionally served by the financial planning profession. The grant awards further CFP Board's mission to help Americans benefit from competent and ethical financial planning by giving financial support to projects that provide underserved populations with financial planning services and information. The grant award recipients are: [TABLE OMITTED] "CFP Board values public education as part of our goal of advancing understanding of the value of financial planning," said Karen Karen Any member of a variety of tribal peoples of southern Myanmar (Burma). Constituting the second largest minority in Myanmar, the Karen are not a unitary group in any ethnic sense, as they differ among themselves linguistically, religiously, and economically. P. Schaeffer Schaeffer can refer to:
The grant awards were made through CFP Board's Financial Planning Grants program, which has provided grants totaling $1,331,630 to 28 projects across the U.S. Through the grant program, CFP Board has provided financial support to non-profit organizations A non-profit organization (abbreviated "NPO", also "non-profit" or "not-for-profit") is a legally constituted organization whose primary objective is to support or to actively engage in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit purposes. , educators and CFP([R]) professionals involved in a wide variety of activities, ranging from innovative uses of technology that expand public access to financial planning to creative partnerships delivering financial planning information and assistance through libraries, high schools, colleges and community-based organizations. Additional information about CFP Board's grant program is available at www.CFP.net/grants. In addition to funding projects that reach the American public, CFP Board also hosts public events to increase awareness of financial planning, including CFP Board's Financial Planning Clinic, which offers consumers free, no-strings-attached opportunities to meet one-on-one with CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER[TM] professionals. The Financial Planning Clinic reaches Boston this Saturday, August 4, 2007 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Learn more about the Financial Planning Clinic at www.CFP.net/clinic. CFP Board is a non-profit professional regulatory body that awards CFP([R]) certification to individuals who successfully complete CFP Board's initial and ongoing certification requirements. CFP Board currently authorizes more than 55,000 individuals to use the marks CFP([R]), CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER[TM] and federally registered CFP (with flame design) in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . |
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