Natural disasters, public health crises, and other localized emergencies can have serious financial ramifications for individuals and families, due to unexpected expenses, loss of income, and limited access to relief supports and programs. The Emergency Financial Empowerment (EFE) initiative partners local emergency management leadership with government and other community financial empowerment resources, better to ensure that emergency response protocols incorporate critical personal finance preparedness and response. 

The CFE Fund is currently accepting applications for the next Emergency Financial Empowerment cohort. Building off lessons learned from the first cohort, this chapter of work uses the expertise and tools to support government-led local emergency preparedness efforts with a focus on individual household financial resilience, preparedness, and recovery. Selected participants will receive $150,000 over the 24-month engagement, as well as significant technical assistance to create and implement a plan to connect financial empowerment strategies to emergency preparedness and response. To learn more about the opportunity, join us for an informational webinar on 10/1 (click here to register), and access the application here.

To learn more about the CFE Fund’s new Emergency Financial Empowerment (EFE) initiative, contact Sol Vilera Ramos, Manager. 

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June 14, 2016

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.
Report
September 20, 2017

An Evaluation of Financial Empowerment Centers: Client Achievement

This brief details client achievement of financial outcomes in the five FEC replication cities, and is excerpted from the CFE Fund’s full report, An Evaluation of Financial Empowerment Centers: Building People’s Financial Stability As a Public Service.
Newsletter
August 2, 2017

Financial Empowerment Center Evaluation Webinars

  An Evaluation of Financial Empowerment Centers: Building People’s Financial Stability As a Public Service This webinar highlights key findings and lessons learned from the three-year evaluation that draws on data from 22,000 clients who participated in 57,000 counseling sessions across 5 cities.
Report
September 13, 2017

An Evaluation of Financial Empowerment Centers: Partnerships and Integrations

This brief details how the FEC model’s partnership and integration process worked in the five replication cities, and is excerpted from the CFE Fund’s full report, An Evaluation of Financial Empowerment Centers: Building People’s Financial Stability As a Public Service.