Center for economic progress Review

Great organization helping hard working, low income families fight poverty with free, expert advice on tax prep, tax legal aid and financial coaching.

I was a volunteer Tax Preparer at the Auburn-Gresham location. Fellow volunteers and CEP staff were supportive and conscientious. Most clients were great but a few were a little trying lol! The facility was adequate with individual work space cramped.

My unhappiness was strictly with the organization heads. While I was trained to protect and respect client confidentiality, they did not do so for the volunteers. I decided not to return once I discovered my info had been widely dispensed without permission.

I am an alumni of the Progress Program. I joined because I wanted to learn how to effectively manage my finances and the debt matching program was definitely an incentive. During the program I asked many times if I would still be eligible for the reward program if my debt had increased and I was told yes by both the director (Satori Bailey) and (Lorena Gonzalez). I was told that as long as I had proof that I was paying down debt, I would still be eligible. Long story short, when the evaluation period came....I was told by the the director, Satori Bailey, that I was ineligible for the reward. This definitely spoiled my experience in the program. I traveled from the south suburbs to attend, paid for parking and made sacrifices to be in this program.Seemingly this issue added to the problem that I was trying to overcome. I'm not sure if the communication wasn't clear, or if the questions that I asked were not clear enough but this could have been avoided if I was told the correct answer from the beginning! All in all, I am very disappointed with my experience with the Center for Economic Progress...I can only hope that what happened to me does not happen to anyone else that joins this program.

This place did my taxes for free. Besides they give you financial advice and college prep. The volunteers are extremely knowledgeable and helpful. Minorities should take advantage of these free services.

Center For Economic Progress is and amazing Organization. They offer free tax services to our community. Thanks to them I learned how to prepare tax's, recently I move forward by performing tax presentation. Their high standard of professional work is their key of success.

worse experience with this center and those are bunches of liars i not recomand

Thank you Eric Sternberg for all your help. When times got financially hard I'm glad that the Center for Economic Progress was there to offer their services and representation in dealing with the IRS and negotiating an offer and compromise that I could not ever imagine was possible.

Regards,
PGA

Great organization! Loved working for them and helping out the many ppl in my own community! Thank YOU!!!