Partners
Like any great venture, the Ready-For-Finance is the result of team work. We would like to thank our site partners--great teams of professionals that have provided us with content, ideas and knowledge to share with aspiring minority business professionals.
Financial Week
Financial Week provides senior executives, financial officers and influential thought leaders with insight and clarity into the complex world of corporate money. The publication is owned by Crain’s Communication, publisher of Advertising Age, Automotive News, Pensions & Investments, InvestmentNews, Business Insurance, and its regional journals, Crain's Chicago, New York, Cleveland and Detroit Business. Continued growth comes from startups, acquisitions and the company's numerous industry newsletters, websites and affiliated businesses.
In addition to FinancialWeek, the Ready-For-Finance team recommends its sister publication, Pensions & Investments.
Graduate Management Admission Council
The Graduate Management Admission Council, based in McLean, Va., is a nonprofit organization of leading graduate business schools worldwide dedicated to creating access to and disseminating information about graduate management education. GMAC annually surveys thousands of corporate recruiters, MBA students and business school alumni to gauge their feelings about the job market and collect other data.
The Council also owns the Graduate Management Admission Test, used by more than 4,000 graduate management programs around the world to assess applicants. The GMAT was created in 1954 and remains the first and only standardized test specifically designed for graduate business and management programs.
Lightbulb Press
Founded in 1990 by the principals who operate the company today, Lightbulb Press is a widely recognized and highly regarded creator and publisher of objective eductional content, both in print and on the Web. Lightbulb's signature style combines everyday, straightforward language, with imaginative, informative, and often humorous graphics. The group’s goal is to shed light on even the most complex and intimidating subjects. Lightbulb gives its readers the necessary knowledge and confidence to make smart decisions and to take the right next steps.
From guides to websites, the entire creative and production process is completed in-house. Its editorial and research group, print and Web designers, production staff, compliance specialists, and e-business and publishing services groups work closely together to ensure the high quality of each product and project.
Today, Lightbulb offers over 30 titles with over 5 million guides in print. The team offers more than 500 online educational articles and have developed a wide range of websites and online learning centers. They’ve created financial literacy websites for children, including orangekids.com, which won a Webby Award, as well as investor learning sites for adults, such as pathtoinvesting.org, which was cited by Barron's as "one of the best investment-education sites on the Web."
StuFund
In 2003, the founders of StuFund came across some startling statistics. Tuition costs increase an average of 7 percent each year, about three times as much as an average year’s inflation. More than 75 percent of students who do not go to college would have done so had money not been an issue. Over 300,000 students each year choose colleges beneath their academic potential because, without access to loans, they couldn’t afford tuition. These statistics were especially applicable to minority and low-income families.
StuFund is an educational loan originator and knowledge center for students and families who want simple, straightforward guidance through the complex financial aid system. The first minority-owned student loan enterprise, StuFund is built around the philosophy that each and every student, regardless of race, national origin, religion, sex, marital status, age or disability, can and should have access to higher education. StuFund believes that if a student has the desire to pursue a college degree, they should be able to find the means.