{"id":1854,"date":"2008-10-08T19:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T02:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/azaroff.com\/?p=1854"},"modified":"2023-10-28T11:04:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T18:04:39","slug":"fighting-poverty-through-saving-vancitys-new-tv-ad-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/?p=1854","title":{"rendered":"Fighting poverty through saving &#8211; Vancity&#8217;s new TV ad."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Jumpstart High Interest Savings Account\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vancity.com\/bank\/savings-accounts\/jumpstart-high-interest\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"imgbord\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; cursor: hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.azaroff.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/jumpstart_portlet-743669.gif?ssl=1\" alt=\"Jumpstart High Interest Savings Account\" \/><\/a>Last week, when I spoke at the Partnership Symposium, I talked a little bit about Vancity&#8217;s <a title=\"Jumpstart High Interest Savings Account\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vancity.com\/bank\/savings-accounts\/jumpstart-high-interest\/\">Jumpstart High Interest Savings<\/a> account.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a high interest savings account (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">as of this writing it is paying out a very competitive 3% interest rate<\/span>) that works like any other. Except for one big difference:<\/p>\n<p>Vancity donates a portion of the proceeds to a not-for-profit partner who runs a program called Future Foundations, which gives a 300% savings rate to eligible people who need help paying for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>training or education<\/li>\n<li>paying for a child&#8217;s education<\/li>\n<li>starting or expanding a business<\/li>\n<li>purchasing housing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Truly amazing stuff.<\/p>\n<p>This week, we launched a slightly edgy TV ad to promote this product. Take a look and let me know what you think&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, when I spoke at the Partnership Symposium, I talked a little bit about Vancity&#8217;s Jumpstart High Interest Savings account. It&#8217;s a high interest savings account (as of this writing it is paying out a very competitive 3% interest rate) that works like any other. Except for one big difference: Vancity donates a portion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,31,91,29,83,4],"tags":[185,190,229,189,224,171],"class_list":["post-1854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banking","category-credit-union","category-marketing","category-poverty","category-social-marketing","category-vancity","tag-banking","tag-credit-union","tag-marketing","tag-poverty","tag-social-marketing","tag-vancity"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p37qUH-tU","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}