The Greenbaum Family
Family was juggling 4 credit cards with high APRs. We consolidated into a single low-interest plan, restructured the family budget, and built a 6-month payoff schedule.
We're laser focused on helping Jewish families get back on their feet. We're nimble, we care, yet we don't enable. We focus on ROI and implement smart chesed.
Collective Kindness is wraparound case management for Jewish families in financial distress. Case managers, budgeters, debt experts, career coaches, and therapists working together for the same family. The work is slow, deeply personal, and accountable to one number: are they cash flow positive when we’re done.
We don’t just track dollars. We measure whether the family feels stable, whether their marriage is healthier, whether the kids are calmer. Financial health and emotional health rise together, or neither does. That’s why our work is wraparound, and that’s why it sticks.
These 25 are a slice of the 290 families we've served. Each carries a verified P&L at intake and at offboarding, pulled directly from connected QuickBooks accounts. Names are pseudonyms to protect privacy. The one-line summary on each card is AI-generated from our case manager notes in Airtable.
Therapy coordination, job placement support, and care packages that calmed the home dynamic and stabilized income.
Engagement ongoing. Budgeting and case management still in progress.
Engagement ongoing. Plan in development.
Untangled business debt, restructured workload boundaries, and rebuilt income from both spouses.
Coordinated an interest-free community loan that eliminated his credit card debt entirely.
Steady budgeting and professional licensing took them from unstable income to consistent stability.
Got both spouses on the same page about money, negotiated tuition, and ended their reliance on family loans.
DMP enrollment, business coaching, and a home sale that reset their entire financial footprint.
Coaching that shifted their entire mindset about money and built habits they'll carry for life.
Budgeting tools and confidence coaching that broke through his income ceiling.
Reorganized chaotic finances and built a structured repayment plan with reduced interest.
Internalized budgeting, paid down debt, and moved balances to 0% APR.
Comprehensive case management and debt restructuring across two income streams.
Exited a bad car lease, found temporary housing, relocated, rebuilt career direction, and added therapy support.
Detailed budgeting and aggressive expense reduction cut their monthly costs nearly in half.
Accountant alignment, therapy, and a debt strategy review that narrowed a $5,500 monthly deficit.
Therapy for the stress, networking for the income, tuition negotiation for the bill.
Budgeting, 0% APR card approval, business coaching for her salon, and family therapy.
Couples therapy and a new independent business turned a family in crisis into one that's thriving.
Engagement ongoing. Plan in development.
DMP enrollment cleared interest on her credit cards; a career transition delivered stable, higher-paying work.
Provided financial assistance and guidance; family was not yet ready for deeper lifestyle change.
Comprehensive case management and a major lifestyle reset to align expenses with sustainable income.
A detailed budget exposed overspending, a DMP cleared the credit cards, and a role shift at home improved everything.
Twelve months of wraparound. Tax resolution, food support, business mentorship, job placement, marriage counseling.
Kosher Debt Help is the only nonprofit, agenda-free credit-card debt program built for the Jewish community. No commissions. No products to sell. We sit on the family’s side of the table, look at the full picture, and walk them through the cheapest path to debt freedom - usually a balance transfer, sometimes a HELOC, occasionally a DMP.
The result, on average: a 23-point APR reduction in the first year.
Each card is one anonymized family in Kosher Debt Help, drawn from the active CRM. Numbers are real. Names have been changed.
Family was juggling 4 credit cards with high APRs. We consolidated into a single low-interest plan, restructured the family budget, and built a 6-month payoff schedule.
Client felt drowning with no end in sight. We negotiated balance transfers to lower APR, set up auto-pay safeguards, and put a 12-month elimination plan in motion.
Affected credit was hurting business cash flow. We moved balances to 0% promotional cards, tightened monthly outflows, and stabilized day-to-day cash.
Long history of high-interest revolving balances. We restructured into a consolidation loan at near-zero APR, paused new credit, and built emergency reserves.
Client was maxed out on multiple cards with mounting stress. We negotiated APR reductions with each issuer and laid out a clear 18-month payoff path.
Post-divorce rebuild with limited credit history. We consolidated debts onto a 0% promotional card, set new banking habits, and helped them rebuild savings.
Family was overdrawn monthly with credit cards growing fast. We secured 0% APR transfers, paused all new spending, and rebuilt the household budget end to end.
Three high-APR cards with one in collections. We negotiated a settlement on the collections account and moved remaining balances to a lower-rate consolidation product.
Five revolving accounts with growing minimums. We consolidated into a single fixed-payment loan and laid out a clear 24-month payoff timeline.
Couple was paying minimums with no headway. We secured a 21-month 0% balance transfer and built a step-by-step plan to clear the balance before the promo ends.
Tuition pressure was driving up credit usage. We consolidated existing balances at a much lower APR and worked with their yeshiva to restructure tuition payments.
Self-employed couple with variable income and growing debt. We refinanced into a fixed-rate consolidation and built a buffer fund for lean months.
Shluchim family with new community costs. We restructured cards, set up a sustainable monthly plan, and coordinated with their mosad for predictable income.
Recent job change had pushed family onto cards. We moved balances to 0% promo cards and restored healthy spending margins within three months.
Multiple cards near limit, missed payments accumulating. We negotiated APR reductions with each issuer and put automated minimums in place to stop the bleed.
Family had been paying $400 a month with no dent. We consolidated into a fixed loan at a fraction of the APR with a clear 30-month payoff.
Single income, growing kids, ballooning cards. We moved balances to a 0% APR product and rebuilt the family budget around their real cash flow.
Couple had run up cards during a slow business year. We refinanced into a low-fixed-rate consolidation loan and paired it with a cash-flow recovery plan.
Family was making minimums on five cards. We consolidated into one low-APR loan and ran a side-by-side cash flow review to find an extra $400 of margin.
Newly married couple felt buried before they started. We zeroed the APR with a 0% transfer card and built habits to avoid relying on credit again.
Couple was dipping into retirement to make card minimums. We restructured the cards into a manageable consolidation and protected their long-term savings.
Recent relocation had stretched their cards thin. We secured a 0% promo product, paid down high-APR balances first, and built a 14-month payoff schedule.
Family of seven feeling squeezed by tuition and credit minimums. We consolidated to a low fixed APR and coordinated tuition relief with their schools.
Couple wanted to start a family but couldn't see past the card balances. We moved them onto a low-rate plan with a clear 20-month finish line.
Family was working multiple jobs and still behind. We consolidated debts at a much lower APR and helped them direct a fixed monthly amount toward payoff.
CK Academy is our financial literacy platform for newlyweds and young families. Cohorts are still in early rollout. Once we have a full graduating class, this is where you'll see what they learned, what they earned, and how much debt they avoided.
Shluchim Thrive is wraparound financial and emotional support for community outreach leaders. The cohort is small, the work is private, and the metrics are still being defined. We'll publish them here once the first set of families has fully cycled through.
The Right Bet is our gambling addiction awareness initiative. Outcomes here are measured in months of sobriety, relationships rebuilt, and debts retired. We're building a measurement framework now and will publish results once we have something honest to show.
Most of our work stays private. These three families chose to share theirs. Watch to get a snapshot of how we impact families. In the weeds, with dignity.
Every family above is one we never want to see in crisis again. Every dollar funds the case management, coaching, debt counseling, and long quiet work that gets the next family there. Designate to a specific program, or trust us to put it where it’s needed most.
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