Grants & Direct Services

  Financial Empowerment Curriculum

The Allstate Foundation Domestic Violence Program's financial empowerment curriculum includes financial tools and information that enable survivors of domestic abuse to (1) fully understand their financial circumstances, and (2) engage in short-term and long-term planning to accomplish their personal goals. The curriculum provides:

• Ways to locate and access local, state and national personal safety and financial resources;
• Information on how to protect personal and financial safety in-crisis and post-crisis;
• Strategies for dealing with the misuse of financial records; and
• Tools to help people of all incomes and earning power work toward long-term economic empowerment.

Allstate employees and agents partner with domestic abuse advocates to train local service providers to utilize the curriculum.

Karen Murrell is president of Higher Heights Consulting and Training

The curriculum was developed by Karen Murrell of Higher Heights Consulting and Training, a Silver Spring, Maryland-based firm that focuses on initiatives to improve housing and economic opportunities for low-income consumers. Karen has more than 15 years experience in the financial literacy field and has worked with numerous Fortune 500 companies, non-profit organizations and faith-based institutions to create financial literacy curricula for a wide variety of audiences. She has written some of the most widely used curricula in the United States, including the One Economy Corporation's Family Budget Tool and Neighborworks America's Financial Fitness.

 Education and Job Training Assistance

For an overview of the Education and Job Training Assistance Fund, please see the Public Awareness section, which is located in About the Program.

 Regional Grants

In addition to its national grants, The Allstate Foundation offers grants to domestic violence agencies and organizations in each of its regions (this document in .pdf format ). For contact information, click here.