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Municipal Toolkit: A toolkit for embedding financial empowerment supports into municipal services

Financial empowerment (FE) is an approach to poverty reduction that focuses on improving the financial security of people living on low income. Evidence shows that embedding FE interventions into municipal welfare, employment, housing, shelter and health services can significantly boost service...

Topic: Financial coaching & counselling
Author: Prosper Canada
Publisher: Prosper Canada
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Action-oriented public health resources on financial wellbeing and financial strain

Improving people’s financial circumstances has never been more critical. Disadvantaged population groups have experienced even higher levels of financial strain and poor financial wellbeing during the pandemic. This has negatively impacted their physical and mental health. To support efforts to...

Topic: Financial well-being
Author: Centre for Health Equity Training, Research and Evaluation (CHETRE), Centre for Healthy Communities
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Connecting to Reimagine: Money & COVID-19 webinar series

This webinar series released by the Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center (GFLEC) features speakers from the public, private, and academic sectors. Past and upcoming webinar topics include: Navigating Retirement Security Through a Pandemic Financial Literacy and Wellness Among...

Topic: Financial literacy, Financial well-being, Research and evaluation
Author: GFLEC - Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center
Publisher: GFLEC - Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center
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From the Margins to Center: Responding to COVID-19 with an Equity and Gender Lens

On June 30th, AFN presented an Expert Insights briefing on what it takes to center women of color in the relief, recovery, and rebuild plans for the current health and economic crisis and beyond. The speaker is Dominique Derbigny, deputy director of Closing the Women’s Wealth Gap (CWWG) and...

Topic: Financial inclusion
Author: Dominique Derbigny
Publisher: AFN - Asset Funders Network
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Creating a Strong Foundation for Change

This guide is designed to be a resource for programs working with low income families to use when anticipating or implementing a new approach, such as coaching, to doing business. It helps you to systematically – and honestly – look at your foundational readiness for change, so that the...

Topic: Financial coaching & counselling, Poverty issues
Author: Global Learning Partners, Public Strategies
Publisher: Global Learning Partners
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Summer Jobs Connect: Connecting Youth to Developmental and Financial Goals

The CFE Fund’s experience has shown that to best support Positive Youth Development, local programs should include financial empowerment strategies: access to, and education about, financial systems combined with opportunities and support to set goals and make good financial decisions. New focus...

Topic: Financial well-being
Author: Katie Plat, Nicky Grist, Sophie Collyer
Publisher: CFE Fund - Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund
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Poverty Reduction Strategy Summary, New Brunswick

This series summarizes the poverty reduction strategies now in place or in development in provinces and territories across Canada. Details were gathered from public documents made available by the profiled jurisdiction. This paper details the New Brunswick...

Topic: Poverty issues
Author: Canada Social Report
Publisher: Canada Social Report
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National Strategies for Financial Education: OECD/INFE Policy Handbook

Financial education has become an important complement to market conduct and prudential regulation and improving individual financial behaviours a long-term policy priority in many countries. The OECD and its International Network on Financial Education (INFE) conducts research and develops tools...

Topic: Financial literacy
Author: OECD - Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
Publisher: OECD - Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
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Using Technology in Financial Coaching

According to a 2013 Federal Reserve Board Survey, technology is increasingly being used by people at all income levels to manage basic financial tasks. With the popularity of smart phones increasing the convenience and accessibility of the internet, combined with the ever increasing public access...

Topic: Financial coaching & counselling
Author: Hallie Lienhardt, J. Michael Collins
Publisher: CFS - Center for Financial Security, University of Wisconsin
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The USFD Methodology – The financial lives of low-and moderate-income Americans

We deployed field researchers into communities in California, Mississippi, New York, Ohio, and Kentucky to delve into the intimate financial details of approximately 200 households. Over the course of a year, field researchers visited each family once or twice a month, logging detailed information...

Topic: Research and evaluation
Author: Jonathan Morduch, Rachel Schneider
Publisher: U.S. Financial Diaries
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Municipal Financial Empowerment: A Supervitamin for Public Programs. Strategy #3: Integrating Safe and Affordable Bank Accounts.

This report, the third in a series about the “supervitamin” effect of improved social service outcomes when integrating financial empowerment and asset building strategies into public programs, details New York City’s efforts to increase access to safe and affordable banking...

Topic: Financial inclusion
Author: NYC Department of Consumer Affairs
Publisher: NYC Department of Consumer Affairs
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Municipal Financial Empowerment: A Supervitamin for Public Programs. Strategy #2: Professionalizing the Field

This Report, the second in a series about the “supervitamin effect” of improved social service outcomes when integrating financial empowerment and asset building strategies into public programs, details New York City’s efforts to provide high-quality, effective financial counseling at scale...

Topic: Financial coaching & counselling
Author: NYC Office of Financial Empowerment
Publisher: NYC Department of Consumer Affairs
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Municipal Financial Empowerment: A Supervitamin for Public Programs. Strategy #1: Integrating Professional Financial Counseling

This report, which documents how New York City introduced professional financial counseling into key City services, is the first in a series that build the case for fully integrating financial empowerment and asset building strategies into core social service delivery to achieve better outcomes,...

Topic: Financial coaching & counselling
Author: NYC Department of Consumer Affairs
Publisher: NYC Department of Consumer Affairs
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