...either program, please contact Sol Vilera Ramos, Manager. The Financial Navigators initiative helped residents deal with the financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, providing remote assistance in navigating critical...
...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...
...affordable financial services. 25 Summer Jobs Connect city partners have built these financial empowerment strategies into the infrastructure of their Summer Youth Employment Programs. The CFE Fund also launched a...
...and financial education to Summer Youth Employment Programs (SYEPs). Citi Foundation, the program’s seed funder, provided an additional $800,000 in support of the Summer Jobs Connect initiative’s tenth year; additionally,...
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...
This issue, Issue 4, previews the Bank On 2.0 National Conference, provides an update on the Summer Jobs Connect initiative, and highlights the Spent: Looking for Change documentary....
...new mayors looking to establish financial empowerment initiatives; reviews Financial Empowerment Center initiative progress; and includes a third In-Kind Technical Assistance grant opportunity for cities interested in replicating the Financial...
...are looking to add financial empowerment strategies — banking access and financial education – into their Summer Youth Employment Programs. Summer Jobs Connect is an ambitious initiative spearheaded by the...
...debt and increase savings – under its nationwide FEC Public platform, resulting in as many as 100 cities and counties total looking to offer FEC financial counseling services. Additionally, the...
...the addition of CRA-based incentives for municipal financial empowerment services, such as for financial institutions that partner with municipalities to offer Bank On appropriate accounts, support children’s savings strategies, and...