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...
...Conference that the CFE Fund co-hosted with the Organization of American States’ Inter-American Social Protection Network; and features a guest post on how local financial empowerment efforts in Lansing resulted...
...series of webinars about the evaluation; click here for informational resources from these webinars. Cities, counties, states, and community organizations who provide government-connected models of free financial counseling and coaching...
...financial products that meet these national Standards are now already available across all 50 states and the District of Columbia at banks and credit unions that range in size from...
...Interagency Questions and Answers Regarding Community Reinvestment. The Coalition recommends a number of factors that the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) examination process should take into account. First, the Coalition encourages...
This issue, Issue 7, provides a number of Bank On updates, including the launch of the Bank On National Account Standards, the announcement of the Bank On Capacity Grant Fund,...
...the short-term lending market that trap them in cycles of debt, and offers a number of recommendations. These include: the proposed full payment test should include standardized, transparent methods for...
...Empowerment Center initiative, the CFE Fund offers a number of recommendations to the Commission. These include: encourage federally funded programs, including block grants, to bake evaluation into program design; support...
...empowerment programming efforts. This brief details why municipal leaders have invested in this critical work, outlines the work of OFEs, and highlights how a number of cities launched their OFEs....
Across the country, a number of local governments are increasing the availability of youth savings opportunities for families, with the goal of improving the likelihood that students of limited means...