The lack of intergenerational wealth transfer is a driving force preventing residents with low incomes from building wealth. With funding and partnership support from Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Greenwood Initiative, the CFE...
...exploring the municipal connection to Bank On with Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms of the City of Atlanta, GA; Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba of the City of Jackson, MS; and Mayor...
...consumer awareness campaign and then plan for broader consumer financial protection capabilities within the city. This issue also features a guest column from the City of Newark, New Jersey’s Mayor...
...Summer Jobs Connect partners including the City of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, Former City of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, City of Miami Mayor Francis...
Since it launched in 2020, the City of Detroit’s Financial Empowerment Center (FEC), as part of the CFE Fund’s national FEC Public initiative, has helped homeowners with low incomes avoid...
...champions. The SaveUSA program was supported by the New York City Center for Economic Opportunity and the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City, and created in partnership with the...
...Conference exploring the municipal connection to Bank On with Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms of the City of Atlanta, GA; Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba of the City of Jackson, MS; and...
...across the first 5 city replication partners and shows that financial counseling worked as a public program in a variety of city contexts. City partners were Denver, CO; Lansing, MI;...
This issue, Issue 14, highlights the funding opportunity and scaling of the Financial Empowerment Center initiative under the FEC Public platform; new city partners under the CFE Fund’s CityStart initiative;...
In this June 2025 press release, the CFE Fund announced that six new cities have been chosen to join the next CityStart cohort. The CityStart initiative helps local leaders develop...