GotTrouble.org Glossary

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We help find and connect the missing pieces

When life feels like it’s falling apart, we help you put things back together again.

GotTrouble.org is a fully integrated consumer resource that helps guide people through the complexity and emotional turmoil of life-changing legal and financial trouble.

GotTrouble.org transcends traditional boundaries between legal, financial, and wellness sites by integrating them under a single and comprehensive brand resource.

We provide access to a wide range of helpful organizations depending on our visitor’s immediate needs and circumstances, including national and locally run businesses, community resources, social impact companies, nonprofits, and government assistance programs.

A Holistic Approach To Solving Life-Changing Trouble

We believe real and long-lasting solutions to life-changing trouble are possible when we take a holistic approach to problem-solving. We provide a diverse range of legal and financial experts and related information and resources. We also offer well-being services, including online counseling and self-development programs that inform, inspire, and empower you to live your best lives possible.

Solving Trouble Is An Individual And Collective Effort

Trouble is an equal-opportunity offender. It impacts both individuals and the larger communities in which we live.  We regularly showcase collective-minded organizations that have made a positive social impact while being innovative in their organizational practices.

We call these remarkable organizations Trouble-Shooters, and they come in all shapes and sizes.

If you would like to know more about our Trouble-Shooter program or know of such an organization and would like to share your experience with them please Contact Us and let us know.

Trouble-Shooters

The Trouble-Shooters listed below provide education, career training, and financial opportunities to millions of people every year:

Accion International

https://www.accion.org/
This company trains banks around the world to be a microfinance partners, making small loans (averaging $694) to help poor people start businesses. In the past 10 years, Accion has been responsible for over 14.5 million loans totaling nearly $10 billion to over 4 million borrowers, 65% of them women.

A Fighting Chance

https://aspirepublicschools.org/
This company operates small public charter schools in poor neighborhoods with curriculums that reinforce the possibility of college for all students. In 2004, every Aspire school exceeded California testing targets – a 100% achievement rate compared with the state school averages.

Bell (Building Educated Leaders for Life)

https://www.bellxcel.org/
This company provides after-school tutoring for underperforming low-income elementary students. The sessions, led by public school teachers, professional mentors, and BELL’s own staff focuses on basic reading, writing and arithmetic. BELL has educated more than 7,500 children at 44 schools. Of these students, 81% improved literacy scores to “proficient.”

Calvert Social Investment Foundation

https://calvertimpact.org/
Connects financial markets to social markets by raising capital from private and institutional investors, then lending it to more than 200 social oriented organizations. Borrowers repay at a 99.8% rate, and investors get their capital back with interest, less a percentage to fund Calvert’s operations. Since 1995, Cavert’s investments have created 146,000 jobs, build or rehabilitated more than 8,000 homes and financed more than 8,400 nonprofit facilities.

Citizen Schools

https://www.citizenschools.org/
Recruits more than 2,000 professionals to provide after-school apprenticeships to low-income middle-school students. During 11 weeks, kids work with these volunteers to create professional-quality products, from a solar-powered fountain to a mock trial.

A Fighting Chance

https://aspirepublicschools.org/
This company operates small public charter schools in poor neighborhoods with curriculums that reinforce the possibility of college for all students. In 2004, every Aspire school exceeded California testing targets – a 100% achievement rate compared with the state school averages.

Pioneer Human Services

https://pioneerhumanservices.org/
Offer ex-offenders, addicts and the homeless employment and training services, counseling and safe housing. It’s 10 enterprises – including a factory that makes cargo liners for Boeing – employ people on the margins of society. Pioneer’s recidivism rate is only 6%, compared with the national average of 30%. Since 1963, it has assisted 120,000 individuals.

Raising a Reader

https://www.raisingareader.org/
Encourages reading among children in poor families. Early-childhood-development specialists work with kids in classrooms and at home visits, providing bright-red bags filled with four books a week. Once children leave the program, they are given their own library cards and introduced to the public library system. These children tested twice as high as the national Head Start norm and parents report spending 471% more time reading with their kids.

Happier Lives Institute

https://www.happierlivesinstitute.org/
The Happier Lives Institute connects impact-focused donors with the most cost-effective opportunities to increase global wellbeing. Our current recommendation is StrongMinds, a non-profit that provides effective treatment for women struggling with depression in Uganda and Zambia.