Comprehensive Benefits Websites

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Comprehensive Financial () Help Website

• Wouldnt it be great if
• We could go to one place to get information, help
  and referrals on a whole range of family needs?
• Financial education
• Budgeting
• Health and Fitness
• Jobs and careers
• Voter registration
• My kids homework!
• ETC.!
• If we could do this without having to leave home?

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YOU CAN! www.beehive.org

• Beehive is a friendly, multilingual internet
  place to go for a mind-boggling range of
  information and resources about things that
  matter to families lives e.g., money, health,
  jobs, school, housing.
• They like you to have a little fun while you're
  there, so they throw in some games and quizzes to
  keep it interesting.
• You can work with Beehive to make it as local as
  you want, with your information and they are
  getting more involved in rural places these
  days... Sites in all 50 states plus DC.
• Brought to you by www.one-economy.com

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Pros abound

• Saves time and energy for families
• Gets them to a fuller range of available benefits
  that help them Keep more of It
• Helps your program or agency provide more service
  to customer
• Uses technology for the forces of good! (And kids
  get it.
• Its an automatic Earn It-Keep It-Grow It
  quilting machine. Customer comes in for one
  thing and may get routed to another.

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Challenges too

• Must use computersbeware the digital divide.
• Users may have concerns about privacy founded
  or unfounded
• If you localize, must be maintained to keep
  current
• May work better when someone helps
• Helpers have to learn how to use it first!
• Must weave it into your service mixmay or may
  not be easy but it is a more engaging tool than
  most