Financial Fridays: Payment Processes and COVID-19

As individuals experience potential income loss with furloughs, layoffs, or unemployment, they are encouraged to speak to their lenders, banks, or creditors BEFORE missing payments.  Once payments are missed, options or willingness of creditors to work with you decline.

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Financial Fridays: Emergency Impact Payment Information

The IRS has launched an official website where non-tax filers can now safely and legitimately file their Emergency Impact Payment information to make sure their address and bank information (if any) is up to date. This website is: https://www.irs.gov/coronavirus/economic-impact-payments.

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Non-Profit COVID-19 Survey

Local Nonprofit Leaders, With the current COVID-19 pandemic, communities are reliant on the essential services provided by many of Wisconsin’s nonprofit organizations. Many nonprofits are experiencing increased demands. At the same time, other nonprofits are experiencing a different reality. Extension is working with a number of partners to better understand how the nonprofit sector is […]

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Well-being During COVID-19

During times of struggle, we question whether wellbeing or joy or happiness is important – right now, wellbeing is even more important so we can stay healthy, be resilient in times of change, and help our struggles feel manageable.  How do we build this resilience, while being compassionate?  Heather Quackenboss, Human Development and Relationships Educator at Extension tells us how we can do this.

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Lawn and Garden Soil Sampling

Do your own Lawn & Garden Soil Sampling from home! In this post you will find Wisconsin Certified Soil & Manure Testing Laboratories who are still accepting soil samples along with general instructions on how to take a soil sample.

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