Back to Budgeting in 2025

Financial Education Seminar Series

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Hybrid: Gateway Room 110 & Zoom

6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

FREE

Is 2025 the year you want to get better control of your finances or perhaps revisit how you are spending your money towards reaching your goals? After a couple years, we are bringing back one of our most popular presenters for our Financial Education Seminar Series with a focus on budgeting. Anthea Perkinson will be joining us to share tips and tricks. 

"Is taking control of your money one of your resolutions for 2025? Join us for a presentation on goals-focused budgeting to learn how to create a budget that can help you reduce debt, afford a vacation, save for a major purchase, or achieve your other financial goals. We will discuss practical ways to create and maintain a budget as well as helpful apps, tools and resources that will help you manage your finances."

Mark your calendars and make plans to join us in kicking off 2025 on the right financial path. 

Please note, we will once again offer an opportunity for our in-person attendees to meet 1:1 with a personal finance professional to ask your questions. These sessions are offered as pro-bono, 15 minute windows. Your questions can focus on any aspect of your finances, it is not restricted to the topic being presented.

Anthea Perkinson CFP®, EA, RMA®, LMSW is the Director of Content Development for Money Made Simple, a New York City-based nonprofit organization dedicated to high quality, free financial literacy education. She is a past president of the Financial Planning Association of New York and a former Co-director of the chapter’s Pro Bono Committee, which provides financial literacy education and counseling to underserved populations in New York City. As a frequent speaker on personal finance topics, she has presented to audiences at nonprofits including Career Gear, Project Renewal, Dress for Success, Working in Support of Education (W!SE), Legal Information for Families Today (LIFT), and Sanctuary for Families. As a volunteer, she has conducted classes on financial literacy topics at NYU Law School, the Icahn School of Medicine, the Borough of Manhattan Community College, Westchester Community College, The New School, St Bart’s Church, the West Harlem Development Corporation, Npower, Eastside Settlement House, and PSS Circle of Care. Anthea received her undergraduate BA degree in English from New York University. In May 2024, she earned a Master’s degree from the Columbia School of Social Work in the Families, Youth and Children’s Services field of practice. She is currently participating in a post-graduate research fellowship at Stony Brook University focused on neurodevelopmental disabilities. Her goal is to evolve her work of building the capacity of underserved New Yorkers by incorporating advocacy and a strengths-based approach to the financial life skills education programs Money Made Simple develops for nonprofits and social service agencies around NYC.

The objective of the Event is to deliver free financial planning information and education to the public. One-on-one meetings with a financial planner are for educational purposes only. FPA Greater Hudson Valley does not recommend or endorse individual professionals or services. The professionals at the Event have volunteered to provide free general financial planning information. Any information, conversations, or recommendations I may receive at the event are for informational purposes only, and reliance on such is solely at my own risk. No client, representative, or agent relationship is created by my participation in the event. By accepting this information without paying any costs or fees, I expressly agree to hold all individuals and parties associated with the event harmless regarding any action I may ultimately decide to take in connection with the information, conversations, or recommendations I may receive. I, the undersigned/registrant, release the volunteers, the FPA Greater Hudson Valley, Westchester Community College, and the Westchester Community College Foundation of any and all claims, actions, suits, proceedings, damages, liabilities, costs, and expenses incurred as a result of any act or failure as a result of negligence or unauthorized actions in connection with activities at the event.