About
Built from what actually worked for asset-limited households
Where PurposeMint comes from
The Conqueror Community Savings Program runs ten-week savings and coaching cohorts for asset-limited households. More than 90 households have taken part, participants have added over $10,000 in new savings, and roughly 69% started with no savings at all.
The cohorts worked while they were running. What we kept seeing was the gap between sessions — the hard week in month three with nobody in the room. PurposeMint exists to be present in that gap.
What we hold to
Readiness before products
A financial product offered before a household is ready usually deepens the problem it was meant to solve. PurposeMint builds the behavior first.
Savings first. Stability next. Mobility after that.
Safety, stability, readiness and mobility are sequential. Skipping a stage is how people end up borrowing at a price they cannot carry.
Respected, not pressured
No broken-streak graphics, no guilt notifications, no penalty for a hard week. A pause holds progress instead of erasing it.
Your money stays yours
PurposeMint does not hold or move funds. Your savings stay in the accounts you already have, and you can disconnect at any time.
Who builds it
Nesha Brown
Executive Director, Mint To Prosper Foundation
Nesha Brown is the Executive Director of Mint To Prosper Foundation and Founder of the Conqueror Community Savings Program. A social entrepreneur whose mission is rooted in her lived experience of homelessness and financial exclusion, Nesha has helped over 500 families gain access to traditional financial products. She is committed to empowering individuals and communities to overcome financial challenges and build lasting stability.
What PurposeMint is not
- Not a bank. PurposeMint does not hold customer funds and makes no FDIC insurance claims of its own.
- Not a lender, credit repair company or financial adviser.
- Not a savings app, budgeting app or marketplace of financial offers.
- PurposeMint is a separate for-profit entity operating as an initiative of Mint To Prosper Foundation.
Read our Money Guide to see how we think about this work.