...Financial Empowerment Centers (FECs), which provide professional, one-on-one financial counseling as a public service. Local leaders were able to offer FEC financial counseling as a critical component of their emergency...
...Sacramento, CA) will connect their Financial Empowerment Center initiatives, which offer professional, one-on-one financial counseling as a free public service, to local business support services. Read the full press release....
...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...
...its Financial Empowerment Center (FEC) initiative, which offers professional, data-driven one-on-one financial counseling as a public service, funding additional FEC counselors and pivoting its national FEC infrastructure to accommodate remote...
...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...
...for financial inclusion. The letter cites evidence from the CFE Fund’s network of Financial Empowerment Center (FEC) municipal partners that demonstrates that access to mainstream banking accounts plays a pivotal...
This press release announces that over 82,000 people have reduced a total of $100 million in debt through municipal Financial Empowerment Centers (FECs). The Financial Empowerment Center initiative provides high-quality,...
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...
...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....
...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...