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Joe March

Joe March
Joe March is a Partnership Manager with SmartSAVER the national education savings advocate working to raise the profile of the Canada Learning Bond. He provides support to family-facing social services agencies and other organizations across Canada that can tell the Learning Bond story and help parents access it. Prior to joining SmartSAVER, Joe spent decades working in Canadian media in senior editorial and marketing roles.

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The Canada Learning Bond is a Powerful Tool for Poverty Reduction

Posted by Joe March on May 19, 2016

The Canada Learning Bond (CLB) is a federal grant of up to $2,000 available to children born 2004 or laterwho are living in families with lower incomes. As a kick start to education savings, the CLB can have a powerful transformative effect on families by motivating success in school, improving high-school completion rates and helping students choose a path to post-secondary education and training.

SmartSAVER works with family facing community agencies across Canada to help them teach thousands of families how they can access free money for their children’s future education.

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