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Comment: FinMango Padelfanatic (talk) 21:23, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
FinMango is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in Akron, Ohio. It works on the financial health of young adults, combining research on the economic pressures affecting household financial stability, among them housing costs, medical debt and access to credit, with financial education programming, free online planning tools and a youth advocacy programme.[1] The organization was recognised as tax-exempt by the Internal Revenue Service in June 2017.[2]
History
[edit]FinMango grew out of class discussions at Kent State University and was founded by Scott Glasgow, who serves as its executive director.[3] It received IRS tax-exempt recognition in June 2017 and is classified under the National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities as a financial counselling and money management organisation.[2]
After a strategic review, the organization broadened its stated focus from financial education to the wider financial stability of young adults in transition.[1]
Research
[edit]FinMango's research examines the conditions that erode household financial stability, including housing affordability, healthcare costs, debt and predatory lending.[1]
Its Financial Health Barometer is a composite index reporting estimated financial stress for each U.S. state across measures of financial anxiety, food insecurity and housing pressure. The published methodology combines federal administrative statistics, including American Community Survey rent-burden data, HUD Fair Market Rents and FRED house-price indices, with Google Trends search-interest data, scaled to a common reference range.[4] The organization also publishes working papers with academic collaborators and releases its methodologies and datasets publicly.[5]
COVID-19 Open-Data
[edit]From 2020, FinMango collaborated with Google Health on COVID-19 Open-Data, an open-source dataset aggregating epidemiological, hospitalisation, mobility, government-response and demographic data for the COVID-19 pandemic. FinMango contributed a crowd-sourcing process that converted unstructured material, including screenshots of annotated maps published by health authorities, into structured records, and took part in assessing and ranking candidate data sources.[6]
The resulting dataset covered 22,579 locations across 232 countries and territories. Its authors described it as the largest COVID-19 meta-dataset in terms of the number of locations, variables and timespan covered.[6]
In August 2020, Google.org featured the collaboration in a series highlighting nonprofit organizations using Google tools in their responses to the pandemic.[5][7]
The partnership was later documented in the American Journal of Health Education in a 2023 article co-authored by Google and FinMango personnel, which set out the governance decisions behind the project and presented it as a model for nonprofit-industry collaboration on public-health data.[3]
Education and programmes
[edit]FinMango delivers classroom instruction on topics including mutual funds and Roth IRAs in secondary schools, and runs Barrier Breakers, a student competition on financial-health innovation held with Kent State University.[1] It also publishes a set of free online calculators and planning tools covering areas such as student loan repayment, retirement saving, and renting compared with buying a home.[1]
Through an annual ambassador programme, the organization selects roughly ten young adults aged 18 to 34 from a range of countries to carry out financial-health advocacy projects in their own communities. Participation is free of charge.[8]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 "About FinMango". FinMango. Retrieved 4 August 2026.
- 1 2 "Finmango, Nonprofit Explorer". ProPublica. Retrieved 4 August 2026.
- 1 2 Wahltinez, Oscar; Glasgow, Scott; Cheung, Aurora; et al. (2023). "The Mango Model: Best Practices in the Creation of a COVID-19 Open Data Project Through a Partnership with Google Health and the Non-Profit FinMango". American Journal of Health Education. 54 (4): 259–264. doi:10.1080/19325037.2023.2209620.
- ↑ "Financial Health Barometer: 2025 Methodology and Data Architecture". FinMango. Retrieved 4 August 2026.
- 1 2 "Research". FinMango. Retrieved 4 August 2026.
- 1 2 Wahltinez, Oscar; Cheung, Aurora; Alcantara, Ruth; et al. (2022). "COVID-19 Open-Data: a global-scale spatially granular meta-dataset for coronavirus disease". Scientific Data. 9 (1): 162. doi:10.1038/s41597-022-01263-z. PMC 9005692. PMID 35414102.
- ↑ Google.org [@Googleorg] (27 August 2020). "Meet the nonprofits using Google tools to support their communities during COVID-19. Watch their stories:" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
{{cite web}}:|author1=has generic name (help) - ↑ "Ambassador Program". FinMango. Retrieved 4 August 2026.
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