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...
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...
...Guest Column from our partner in New Haven; a new section that highlights news and updates from the CFE Coalition; and CFE Fund updates on our Board and new website....
...next three years. With nearly $19 million in new support, the CFE Fund will replicate its proven Financial Empowerment Center (FEC) model – which helps low- and middle-income residents decrease...
...also can play a unique role in protecting residents’ hard-earned assets. Building off of work begun by former New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...
This March 2018 press release announces a $1 million investment from Wells Fargo in the CFE Fund’s replication of its proven Financial Empowerment Center (FEC) model in 12 cities under...
...New York’s Mayor Lovely Warren, highlighting the momentum established during Rochester’s CityStart engagement, which ultimately led to the creation of an Office of Community Wealth Building and the launch of...
This webinar discusses data results from a two-city pilot that looked at how Financial Empowerment Center (FEC) clients are saving, to ultimately inform new savings indicators for financial counseling success....
...to financial education as part of Summer Jobs Connect (SJC) in 2018. Summer Jobs Connect enhances municipally-led summer youth employment programs by integrating structural linkages to safe and appropriate banking...
...this work. The CFE Fund recently selected the third cohort of CityStart grantees with a specific racial wealth equity focus; grantees are Buffalo, NY; Chicago, IL; Indianapolis, IN; Little Rock,...