...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...
...counselors and pivoting its national FEC infrastructure to accommodate remote services. This work is supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Citi Foundation, JPMorgan Chase & Co., and the Wells Fargo Foundation....
...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....
...of activities that could receive consideration during the examination process, maintaining and strengthening the service test and ensuring that any proposed evaluation methodology does not undermine the value and incentive...
...initiative provides high-quality, one-on-one financial counseling as a free public service. Learn more about the CFE Fund’s work to expand this model in 50 cities under its FEC Public platform....
...need for a fair and dependable consumer financial marketplace. The CFE Fund’s letters also emphasized governments’ interest in preserving and protecting social service gains from predatory business practices that would...