...over the phone to help people strategize around supports for disruptions to their income and other financial concerns. They helped residents triage financial issues, identify immediate action steps, and make...
...phone-based financial triage and resource referrals; 35 municipal Financial Empowerment Center (FEC) partners are offering, or are working to launch, one-on-one financial counseling through FEC programs; and more than 80...
...has invested over $40 million in this initiative, which has provided 16,500 young people with summer jobs and over 800,000 low-income youth with access to financial education and safe and...
In this July 2023 press release, the CFE Fund announced the expansion of Summer Jobs Connect (SJC) through Summer Jobs Connect Academy, a new entry point for connecting banking access...
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...
...place in Chicago, New York, and San Francisco, drawing in over 110 participants. Regional winners then presented their ideas virtually to a panel of judges at a site hosted by...
...Summer Youth Employment Programs through Financial Empowerment, which details important lessons from the programs in Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, and San Francisco over the 2014 program summer....
...of the goals that clients committed to achieving between sessions. Through a grant from Capital One, the CFE Fund provided funding and technical assistance to Chicago, New York City and...
This issue, Issue 9, includes updates on the Financial Empowerment Center initiative; an overview of the recent Summer Jobs Connect gathering in Chicago; and news and resources from the Bank...
...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,...