Across the country, a number of local governments are increasing the availability of youth savings opportunities for families, with the goal of improving the likelihood that students of limited means...
Across the country, a number of local governments are increasing the availability of youth savings opportunities for families, with the goal of improving the likelihood that students of limited means...
The CFE Fund has a number of supportive resources related to COVID-19! This page lists all safe and affordable accounts certified as meeting the Bank On National Account Standards that...
...empowerment strategies to build their residents’ financial stability, with a number of localities moving beyond a single program or policy to a dedicated Office of Financial Empowerment. Across more than...
...Citing evidence from a range of CFE Fund work—including the success of our national Bank On initiative in assisting the Internal Revenue Service connect stimulus recipients to banking for direct...
...integrating banking access strategies into government service streams to address common access barriers like identification, language, and fees. In this letter, the CFE Fund urged Treasury to focus on large-scale...
...explored how Financial Empowerment Center (FEC) public counseling services could integrate and support existing emergency rental assistance and eviction prevention efforts. The pilot demonstrated that the period between notice of...
...Akron, OH; Lansing, MI; Pittsburgh, PA; Polk County, IA; and Rochester, NY will connect their Financial Empowerment Center initiatives, which offer professional financial counseling as a free public service, to...
In this August 2020 press release, the CFE Fund announced that more than 50 city and county governments across the country will expand financial counseling and financial navigation services for...
...governments’ interest in preserving and protecting social service gains from predatory business practices that would strip them away, and offered to assist current leadership to help achieve these critical priorities....