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September 16, 2024

The Skyline: How Two Cities Leveraged Financial Empowerment as Connective Tissue for Housing Success

By connecting financial empowerment to rental assistance programs, two cities supercharged social service success and brought together a range of partners to build a cohesive ecosystem around longer-term financial stability.
Newsletter
February 14, 2024

The Skyline: How Three Cities Expanded Banking Access to Residents with Alternative IDs

Regulatory requirements to verify a customer’s identity have posed notable barriers to banking for those who may not have traditional government-issued IDs. But local government leaders and community organizations around the country are partnering with financial institutions to flexibly connect consumers to safe banking.
Newsletter
June 2, 2023

The Skyline: How Two States Used Unemployment Payments to Get Residents Banked

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 unemployment payments.
Newsletter
May 2, 2023

The Skyline: How Innovative Programs Are Helping System-Involved Youth Succeed by Getting Them Banked

This issue of the Skyline spotlights innovative ways that programs are using direct cash assistance as an opportunity to provide system-involved young people with banking access.
Newsletter
December 18, 2022

The Supervitamin Quarterly Newsletter, Issue 27

This issue, Issue 27, provides updates on the CFE Fund’s and partner cities’ financial empowerment efforts, including a focus on our in-person convenings enhancing our work.
Newsletter
August 22, 2022

The Supervitamin Quarterly Newsletter, Issue 26

In this issue, Issue 26, the CFE Fund celebrates its 10-year anniversary and provides updates on the CFE Fund’s and partner cities’ financial empowerment efforts, including an announcement that the Bank On movement has certified over 250 bank and credit union accounts, helping newly bank 3.1 million residents.
Newsletter
March 31, 2022

The Supervitamin Quarterly Newsletter, Issue 25

This issue, Issue 25, provides updates on the CFE Fund’s and partner cities’ financial empowerment efforts, including an announcement that the Bank On movement has certified more than 200 bank and credit union accounts, with partner financial institutions comprising 56% of the U.S.
Newsletter
November 22, 2021

The Supervitamin Quarterly Newsletter, Issue 24

This issue, Issue 24, provides updates on the CFE Fund’s and partner cities’ financial empowerment efforts, including an announcement of a new partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies to help grow the municipal financial empowerment field. 
Newsletter
July 13, 2021

The Supervitamin Quarterly Newsletter, Issue 23

This issue, Issue 23, provides updates on the CFE Fund’s and partner cities’ financial empowerment efforts, including those related to COVID-19 recovery.  In advance of the newly expanded federal Child Tax Credit monthly payments, the CFE Fund and Bank On coalitions are highlighting the availability of safe and affordable Bank On certified accounts; the CFE Fund recently announced that there are over 100 accounts certified as meeting the Bank On National Account Standards.
Newsletter
February 17, 2021

The Supervitamin Quarterly Newsletter, Issue 22

This issue, Issue 22, provides updates on CFE Fund’s and partner cities’ COVID-19 response efforts.  Since the pandemic began, 31 cities and counties have launched Financial Navigators initiatives to provide 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 Bank On coalitions are working to connect their communities to safe and affordable banking products so they can safely receive and use stimulus payments, unemployment benefits, wages, and more.