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Summer Jobs Connect: Connecting Youth to Developmental and Financial Goals

The Summer Jobs Connect (SJC) initiative, generously supported by Citi Foundation, leverages the scale and infrastructure of Summer Youth Employment Programs (SYEPs) to offer banking access and other financial empowerment opportunities, helping to transform a summer job into an on-ramp to the financial mainstream.

Supervitamin Quarterly, Issue 7

This issue, Issue 7, provides a number of Bank On updates, including the launch of the Bank On National Account Standards, the announcement of the Bank On Capacity Grant Fund, and updates on critical support from Bank On partners, both regulators and financial institution.

Summer Jobs Connect: Building Sustainable Banking and Savings Programs in Summer Youth Employment

The Summer Jobs Connect (SJC) initiative, generously supported by Citi Foundation, leverages the scale and infrastructure of Summer Youth Employment Programs (SYEPs) to offer banking access and other financial empowerment opportunities, helping to transform a summer job into an on-ramp to the financial mainstream.

Summer Jobs Connect Youth Account Priorities

These programmatic Youth Account Priorities outline features that Summer Jobs Connect city partners prioritized in transactional accounts for participants.

SaveUSA Video

Piloted at select free tax preparation sites in four cities, SaveUSA is a simple tax time matched savings program — tax filers who deposited part of their refund into a designated account, and maintained the deposit for a year, received a 50% savings match up to $500.

Tax Time: The Right Moment for Savings

Piloted at select free tax preparation sites in four cities, SaveUSA is a simple tax time matched savings program — tax filers who deposited part of their refund into a designated account, and maintained the deposit for a year, received a 50% savings match up to $500.

The SaveUSA Playbook: A Tax Time Approach to Short-Term Savings

Piloted at select free tax preparation sites in four cities, SaveUSA is a simple tax time matched savings program — tax filers who deposited part of their refund into a designated account, and maintained the deposit for a year, received a 50% savings match up to $500.

Bank On National Account Standards (2015- 2016)

The Bank On National Account Standards provide guidelines on over 25 product features that local Bank On coalitions should seek in their financial institution partnerships and that financial institutions should consider when developing basic transaction accounts.

Big Banks Sign On to Safer Account Standards for Underserved

This American Banker article highlights the Bank On National Account Standards launch, and financial institution and regulatory support, in San Francisco.

Account Screening Consumer Reporting Agencies: A Banking Access Perspective

The CFE Fund and the National Consumer Law Center co-wrote this report, outlining the tremendous and deeply flawed role that account screening consumer reporting agencies (“CRAs”) play in determining whether consumers can obtain a bank or credit union account.