This issue of the Skyline (link) spotlights efforts in Illinois and Maryland to expand banking access by promoting and incentivizing direct deposits into safe bank and credit union accounts for...
...deposit and our partnerships with the State of Illinois’s Department of Employment Security and the State of Maryland’s Division of Unemployment Insurance, incorporating access to safe and affordable banking accounts...
...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...
...Fund and Bloomberg Philanthropies announce a second wave of In-Kind Technical Assistance grants to seven cities: Cleveland, OH; Hartford, CT; Hawai’i County, HI; Los Angeles, CA; Miami, FL; San Francisco,...
...a full-time Fellow to lead their coalition’s activities. The CFE Fund recently announced the fourth cohort of Bank On Fellows: Bank On Arizona (State of Arizona); Bank On CLE (Cleveland,...
...iteration of the CityStart program with a specific lens on racial wealth equity. The CFE Fund will partner with local government leaders in Baltimore, MD; Cleveland, OH; Monroe, LA; Newark,...
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...