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Why Get Checking?

Get Checking provides a six-hour, highly focused, education program in which participants learn the basics of managing a checking or savings account. Get Checking provides the solid foundation that allows consumers to understand more broad-based financial education and move on to more sophisticated financial transactions.

Get Checking Northwest works with Financial Institution Partners to ensure two things:

• Consumers receive a comprehensive and focused financial education on deposit account management
  
• Graduates are guaranteed a checking or savings account at the referring financial institution upon successful completion of the course and verification of restitution to prior financial institutions

Financial Institutions participating in the program increase new account openings at a lower cost than other mass marketing efforts. Get Checking program graduates are prime candidates to build long-term relationships because of their feelings for the financial institution that actually gave them a second chance to succeed.

Enrolling Get Checking graduates and developing loyalty, while decreasing exposure to risk, is a proactive growth strategy at minimal cost.

Get Checking provides national statistical data that helps demonstrate the value and credibility of the program. By sharing program information, participating financial institutions can quantitatively assess the program's impact and value.

Get Checking provides a comfortable, non-threatening, supportive environment for both the unbanked and the never-banked.