The CFE Fund partnered with the Organization of American States’ Inter-American Social Protection Network (IASPN) following an international conference it co-hosted in New York City with the U.S. Department of...
...supports and programs. The Emergency Financial Empowerment (EFE) initiative partners local emergency management leadership with government and other community financial empowerment resources, better to ensure that emergency response protocols incorporate...
...Financial Empowerment Centers (FECs), which provide professional, one-on-one financial counseling as a public service. Local leaders were able to offer FEC financial counseling as a critical component of their emergency...
...residents identify and then access public resources targeted to address their individual needs. This program also has informed the CFE Fund’s new Emergency Financial Empowerment program. To learn more about...
...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...
...Conference that the CFE Fund co-hosted with the Organization of American States’ Inter-American Social Protection Network; and features a guest post on how local financial empowerment efforts in Lansing resulted...
...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...
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...
...Academy, partners will be equipped to mobilize the building blocks to launch the Financial Empowerment Center initiative in their community, including through leveraging federal funding streams like the American Rescue...