Legacy Institute For Financial Empowerment

Financial opportunities center (foc) - life provides personal finance and investments education through workshops and individualized coaching. The curriculum includes: understanding money, budgeting, saving, improving credit scores, homeownership, investing, and more.

Life works- engaging justice involved community members in adult education programs through angelina college to provide unique services to reenter the workplace.

Life tech - a technology access program which serves low to moderate income households throughout deep east texas. This program partners with the deep east texas regional housing authority (detrha) and angelina college to provide training and low cost hardware to households in need with the purpose of ensuring each east texas household has a computer and access to the internet. This program also provides internships for community members who are considering a career in information technology (it) as they pursue their comptia a+ certification or their microsoft technology associate (mta) certification.

Life build - a workforce development training program designed to produce future leaders in carpentry. The program provides community members with an opportunity to earn industry-recognized certifications such as the nccer core, general carpentry, and advanced carpentry. Participants may also have an opportunity to earn a stipend while they're learning. Coupled with the training aspect of life build is a social enterprise that will build affordable single family homes and provide affordable renovations to low-to-moderate homeowners.

Lef - life empowerment fund -- small dollar loan program designated to provide access to capital to those who have historically been under-served (e.g. Bipoc, women, and rural communities).

Cei -center for entrepreneurship and innovabation is a business development office (bdo). The project helps aspiring and existing entrepreneurs bring their ideas to market. The goal is to help our clients think through the process of what it would take to begin their business, select an appropriate corporate structure with the help of an attorney, gain access to affordable capital ect. We partner with attorneys, cpas, and the small business development center (sbdc).

The juzi spot - a fruit juice and smoothie bar which provides internship opportunities for those who wish to pursue a career in food services.

Generation a - youth mentorship program focusing on 6th - 12th grade students who have been categorized by the school district as low socioeconomic (lsec), economically disadvantaged, or at risk. This program provides services to its students from 6th grade until graduation. Services include tutoring, financial literacy, goal setting, financing college, entrepreneurship, and more