Member Community Involvement

RESTON, Va., Oct. 29, 2015-Navient employees helped teach local 8th grade students yesterday from Franklin Middle School about the importance of financial literacy. Hosted at the Junior Achievement Finance Park of Greater Washington in Fairfax, students learned to make budgeting decisions based on random life scenarios.

The program is part of a four-week course under the guidance of […]

Proceeds from the annual event support Make-A-Wish Western New York, Mikey’s Way and more organizations to help people in need.

Proceeds from the event were distributed between Make-A-Wish Western New York; the Mikey’s Way Foundation, which helps children with life-threatening illnesses stay connected to their friends, family and school through the use of technology; ARMing Heroes; […]

Meeting Street Academy (MSA) is a groundbreaking initiative, founded by Sherman Financial Group, dedicated to the creation of a new mandate for education in South Carolina and beyond.  MSA was founded upon the belief that all children deserve an excellent education regardless of their geographic or socioeconomic […]

When first-grader Gracie Baxter Smith goes to school, she enters a classroom named after the College of Charleston. She knows its song. She’s learned what year she’ll graduate from high school and go to college herself. She wants to be a nurse.

Yet she goes to Meeting Street Elementary @ Brentwood, a public elementary school in […]

SAN DIEGO, Dec. 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Encore Capital Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: ECPG), an international specialty finance company, today announced it is providing $124,000 in scholarships to students at 43 community colleges across the country, as part of its new national program, […]

ROANOKE, VA — Oct. 29, 2014 – Atlantic Credit & Finance, a subsidiary of Encore Capital Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: ECPG), an international specialty finance company, today announced that it helped raise $61,000 for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Southwest Virginia.  For the ninth straight year, Atlantic sponsored the Skins Game Golf Tournament that […]

Today we celebrate the opening of North Charleston’s new public neighborhood school, Meeting Street Elementary School @ Brentwood (MSEB).MSEB is a groundbreaking new initiative for the Charleston County School District. CCSD has teamed up with my organization, Meeting Street Schools, to form an innovative public/private partnership, the first of its kind in South Carolina.

Working together, […]

NORFOLK, Va., March 31, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — This month, Portfolio Recovery Associates, Inc.
(Nasdaq:PRAA), a f financial and business services company operating in the U.S. and the U.K., was recognized
by the Virginia Department of Veteran Services (DVS) as a “Virginia Values Veterans” (V3)-certified employer.
Through this initiative, the Norfolk-based company is committing to hiring more veterans […]

NORFOLK, Va., Dec. 4, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Portfolio Recovery Associates, Inc. (Nasdaq:PRAA), a financial and business services company operating in the U.S. and U.K, has been recognized by Volunteer Hampton Roads as a recipient of its 2013 Corporate Volunteer Excellence Award.

The Corporate Volunteer Excellence Awards are presented annually by Volunteer Hampton Roads, in […]

The Atlantic Credit & Finance Skins Game benefiting the Boys and Girls Clubs of Southwest Virginia took place at Ballyhack Golf Club on October 14, 2013. In its eighth year, the tournament has now raised over $500,000 dollars to benefit the local Boys & Girls Clubs.

“A half of a million dollars makes a huge impact […]