We change lives every day.
I know you’re skeptical. You’ve put your trust in people who have hurt you and you know that the internet is full of charlatans who will say whatever it takes to get you to click. It’s frustrating and you have every reason to doubt. I don’t blame you one bit. There aren’t many websites I trust, either.
But there’s something you need to know about Advantage Savers.
I (Nicole) have owned Advantage Savers since it began in 2013. I started this website because I genuinely wanted to help people. When my husband was medically discharged from the US Army in 2007, it wrecked us financially. Our severance pay took months to process, we were 3,000 miles from home, and we had no idea how we were going to take care of our baby. We didn’t even know how to live with David’s disability yet. Everything was new and scary… and the uncertainty of it all was terrifying and isolating and awful. It felt like nobody in the world understood what we were going through and it felt like nobody cared.
I don’t want anyone to experience that, ever.
In the months that followed our severance, I spent every spare moment at the library searching for help. After hours and hours of research, I started to find resources that could help my family… and instead of ending up on the streets, we found ourselves living in a beautiful new townhouse. Several community agencies chipped in to cover our move-in costs and first month’s rent. Someone gave us furniture, a food bank gave us food, and suddenly we had everything we needed to get back on our feet. We had hope and a community and it was everything we could have wished for. Our son was safe, we were able to get better jobs, and eventually we worked our way off of the programs that had saved us.
But I have never, ever forgotten what that felt like. I’ve never forgotten the pain and the isolation and the judgment I felt when I had nothing…
…and I’ve never forgotten the incredible, overwhelming joy and hope that I felt when we finally found help.
And now it’s my life’s mission to bring that hope to as many people as possible.
I learned the hard way that help is out there but it can be incredibly hard to find. Now, I use my skills as a journalist and a researcher to bring that information to the forefront and make it easy for people to find what they need. I know you don’t have time to spend hundreds of hours digging through government documents and rulebooks and resource directories to find what you need, so I do it for you.
I know the internet has given you 10,000 reasons not to trust a random website… but Advantage Savers is different. I hope you’ll stick around and find out why millions of people have put their trust in us over the last 10 years.
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