...economic opportunity for Canadians living in poverty by working with governments, businesses and community groups to develop and promote financial policies, programs and resources. Prosper Canada looks to further integrate...
The CFE Fund’s Supervitamin Quarterly newsletter provides regular updates about our work. This issue, Issue 2, provides an update on the first round of In-Kind Technical Assistance Grants to support...
...over the phone to help people strategize around supports for disruptions to their income and other financial concerns. They helped residents triage financial issues, identify immediate action steps, and make...
...phone-based financial triage and resource referrals; 35 municipal Financial Empowerment Center (FEC) partners are offering, or are working to launch, one-on-one financial counseling through FEC programs; and more than 80...
...has invested over $40 million in this initiative, which has provided 16,500 young people with summer jobs and over 800,000 low-income youth with access to financial education and safe and...
In this July 2023 press release, the CFE Fund announced the expansion of Summer Jobs Connect (SJC) through Summer Jobs Connect Academy, a new entry point for connecting banking access...
...opportunities, helping to transform a summer job into an on-ramp to the financial mainstream. This Research Brief details SJC youth participants’ views on financial empowerment, as explored in focus groups...
...accounts. The CFE Fund commissioned strategic communications firm RALLY and polling research firm PSB to field a multi-city series of focus groups and surveys to uncover what types of messaging...
The CFE Fund has a number of funding opportunities to support banking access efforts, including the Bank On Capacity Grant: Capacity Grant: The CFE Fund’s Bank On Capacity Grant aims...
...Interagency Questions and Answers Regarding Community Reinvestment. The Coalition recommends a number of factors that the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) examination process should take into account. First, the Coalition encourages...