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Bank On Coalition Playbook

The CFE Fund’s Bank On Coalition Playbook provides tools and resources that local coalitions can use to do their work more effectively

Bank On Coalition Financial Institution Partnerships: Statement of Principles

This Statement of Financial Institution Partnership Principles provide a template to harmonize goals and guide financial institution partnerships with shared expectations.

Consumer Financial Protection Initiative: Request for Letters of Interest

With support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the CFE Fund seeks to identify mayoral or county administrations interested in partnering to build out a consumer financial protection division within their local government, working to create a fairer consumer financial marketplace.

Supervitamin Quarterly, Issue 9

This issue, Issue 9, includes updates on the Financial Empowerment Center initiative; an overview of the recent Summer Jobs Connect gathering in Chicago; and news and resources from the Bank On initiative.

CFE Fund Comment Letter on Evidence-Based Policy

The CFE Fund submitted a Comment Letter to the US Bureau of the Census Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking. The letter focused on strategies to increase the availability and use of government data to build evidence for programs and policies, while protecting privacy and confidentiality—drawing from the CFE Fund’s experience working with local governments across the country.

CFE Coalition CFPB Comment Letter on Payday Loans

The 15-member CFE Coalition has weighed in on key federal policy issues since its founding in 2008. In this 2016 letter, the Coalition highlights how programmatic experience has shown members the devastating impacts that predatory lending can have on residents.

Supervitamin Quarterly, Issue 8

This issue, Issue 8, provides an update on the Next Generation Municipal Financial Empowerment awards; a brief on financial empowerment’s role in positive youth development from our Summer Jobs Connect initiative; and an announcement of a Request for Expressions of Interest for organizations to serve as a long-term partner to evaluate financial institution products for Bank On National Account Standards consistency.

The Financial Empowerment Center Movement

The CFE Fund’s Financial Empowerment Center initiative provides professional, one-on-one, municipally-led free financial counseling in cities across the country. In this video, FEC counselors talk about core tenets of the model and the importance of municipal financial counseling in their city.

CFE Coalition 2016 Policy Agenda: Policy Priorities and Recommended Agenda Items

The 15-member CFE Coalition has weighed in on key federal policy issues since its founding in 2008. In 2016, the CFE Coalition released its 2016 Policy Agenda, outlining the legislative and regulatory reforms it seeks to advance.

Professionalizing Field of Financial Counseling and Coaching Journal

This interactive journal is a compilation of expert perspectives on professionalizing financial counseling, organized around the pillars of any professionalizing field—quality, consistency, accountability and community.