ACE's Douglas Lindsay and Laurie Hill with Genesis Women's Shelter's Jan Langbein and Lara Gaither. (PRNewsFoto/ACE Cash Express, Inc.)

/PRNewswire/ - ACE Cash Express, Inc., a leading retailer of financial services, donated thousands of school supplies to Dallas-based Genesis Women's Shelter in an effort to provide their clients with back to school basics. 

This donation was made possible through the ACE Community Fund, ACE's corporate giving program that focuses on children, education and financial literacy and the generosity of ACE's corporate associates.

"ACE and its employees are privileged to support such a great organization," said ACE Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Laurie Goodine Hill. "We are committed to Genesis Women's Shelter and its mission to end domestic violence and help the victims of domestic violence."

"BIG 'Thank You' to ACE Cash Express for providing school supplies to the kiddos at Genesis Women's Shelter," said Lara Gaither, Director of Outreach and Community Development with Genesis Women's Shelter. "Because of their donation, children at Genesis will each receive a backpack full of notebooks, pens, binders and other learning tools. What a great way to start their school year! We are proud to partner with ACE and stand with a determination to eliminate violence against women and children." 

The ACE Community Fund and Genesis Women's Shelter relationship will not end here. Effective October 1, ACE will be providing Genesis Women's Shelter clients with financial literacy education covering everything from paycheck and banking basics to credit and budget preparation.

About ACE Cash Express

ACE Cash Express, Inc. is a leading retailer of financial services, including short-term consumer loans, check cashing, bill payment and prepaid debit card services. ACE is the largest owner and operator of check cashing stores in the United States and the second largest owner and operator of short-term consumer loan stores in the United States. As of June 30, 2011, ACE has a network of 1,677 stores in 36 states and the District of Columbia. ACE focuses on serving consumers, many of whom seek alternatives to traditional banking relationships in order to gain convenient and immediate access to financial services. For additional information about ACE Cash Express, visit www.acecashexpress.com.

About The ACE Community Fund

Established in 2003, the ACE Cash Express Community Fund is the corporate giving program supporting organizations that help children, support education and promote financial literacy, and is focused on giving back to communities where ACE has stores. Each year, ACE sets aside one percent of the previous year's net profit to support these worthwhile causes through the ACE Community Fund. Since its inception, the ACE Community Fund has donated more than $5 million to charitable organizations throughout the nation.

About Genesis Women's Shelter

For over twenty-five years, Genesis Women's Shelter has been committed to providing quality safety and shelter to battered women and their children through crisis intervention and short-term crisis therapeutics and to reducing the occurrence of violence against women and children in the greater Dallas area. Genesis Women's Shelter is also committed to raising the level of community awareness regarding the pervasiveness and effects of domestic violence. Our organization has provided free and confidential counseling and case management to over 25,000 women and children in the last twenty-five years. Genesis Women's Shelter is proud to honor our past and embrace our future as we continue the mission of providing safety, shelter and strength to victims of domestic violence for another twenty-five years.

ACE Cash Express

ACE Cash Express

ACE Cash Express, Inc. is a leading retailer of financial services, including short-term consumer loans, check cashing, bill payment and prepaid debit card services. ACE is the largest owner and operator of check cashing stores in the United States and the second largest owner and operator of short-term consumer loan stores in the United States. As of December 31, 2010, ACE had a network of 1,731 stores in 36 states and the District of Columbia, consisting of 1,677 company-owned stores and 54 franchised stores. ACE focuses on serving consumers, many of whom seek alternatives to traditional banking relationships in order to gain convenient and immediate access to financial services. For additional information about ACE Cash Express, visit www.acecashexpress.com.

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