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Supervitamin Quarterly, Issue 3

This issue, Issue 3, announces the launch of Summer Jobs Connect, which embeds targeted financial education and banking access into summer youth employment programs; details the Partnerships for Financial Inclusion 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 in further financial empowerment investment throughout Michigan.

Supervitamin Quarterly, Issue 2

The CFE Fund’s Supervitamin Quarterly newsletter provides regular updates about our work. This issue, Issue 2, provides an update on the first round of In-Kind Technical Assistance Grants to support Financial Empowerment Center replication, highlights a Bank On launch event in Louisville, and gives an overview of Financial Empowerment Center client accomplishments to date.

The CFE Fund and Bloomberg Philanthropies Award Technical Assistance Grants to 7 Cities Replicating the Financial Empowerment Center Model

Financial Empowerment Centers offer free, professional, one-on-one financial counseling to enable residents to address their financial needs and plan for their futures. In this February 2014 press release, the CFE 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, CA; and Seattle, WA.

Supervitamin Quarterly, Issue 1

This issue, Issue 1, highlights the launch of Bank On, provides an update on Financial Empowerment Center progress as well as the In-Kind Technical Assistance Grant for other cities interested in replicating the Center model, and includes the introduction of the Financial Security Credit Act which would incentivize savings at tax time.

CFE Coalition Comment Letter on Limitations on Terms of Consumer Credit Extended to Service Members and Dependents

The 15-member CFE Coalition has weighed in on key federal policy issues since its founding in 2008. In this 2013 letter, the CFE Coalition urges the Department of Defense (DoD) to revise its regulations implementing the Military Lending Act (MLA) to ensure that service members and their families are protected from the full range of abusive lending practices that trap them in cycles of debt.

CFE Fund Announces Opening of New Financial Empowerment Centers in 5 Cities

Financial Empowerment Centers offer free, professional, one-on-one financial counseling to enable residents to address their financial needs and plan for their futures. In this March 2013 press release, the CFE Fund and Bloomberg Philanthropies announce the opening of five new Financial Empowerment Center programs to provide free, personalized, and professional financial counseling to residents of Denver, CO; Lansing, MI; Nashville, TN; Philadelphia, PA; and San Antonio, TX.