As a donor over many years, I always felt great about giving to Prosperity Works because I'd heard all the success stories of New Mexicans moving from poverty to prosperity, sometimes in short amounts of time. I knew that my money went far because it was automatically at least doubled by other funds PW had raised. Prosperity Works, with valued community partners, helps people build assets through Individual Development Accounts: 4 to 1 matched savings accounts to buy a house, go to college, start or grow a business and now, also, through Child Savings Accounts, 1:1 matched savings over 11 years that not helps kids to go to college but from a young age to invest in themselves, set new goals and intentions for their lives. Now as a new employee, coming from the for-profit, corporate world, I am excited to make not only my money, but my time count. I am glad to learn of and to support Prosperity Works' efforts to end poverty at a policy level as well, for example, to cap the interest rates of payday loan type companies that viciously prey on the most vulnerable New Mexicans with 200-2000% annual interest rates.