How We Work
Innovation Center
Professional Services

How We Work

The CFE Fund helps mayors with strategies developed for cities ... by cities.

The CFE Fund approach combines technical and adaptive work to enable cities to embrace financial empowerment strategies, consider the most appropriate large-scale services within which to embed these strategies, and boost outcomes for individuals and families in the most cost-effective manner. To do so, the CFE Fund engages in 4 key service areas:

  • Program Replication

  • Innovation and Development

  • Professional Services

  • CFE Coalition Support

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Who We Are

The CFE Fund's mission is to leverage municipal engagement to improve the financial stability of households by embedding financial empowerment strategies into local government infrastructure. The Fund will work with mayoral administrations and those interested in supporting them to actually "pull triggers " -- and will measure its success accordingly.

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Mainstreaming social innovation

Living Cities President and CEO Ben Hecht blogs about the promise of municipal financial empowerment.

 

Innovation Center

The CFE Fund Innovation Center delivers capacity building to expand and grow successful pilots in multiple locations, develop large-scale multi-city national replications, build technical infrastructure for improving city delivery of services, and establish a learning community that facilitates professional development, trainings, networking, and funding opportunities for cities.

Join our 2013 monthly webinar series!

The CFE Fund is proud to announce "Twelve in Twelve: Financial Empowerment Programming Across CFE Coalition Cities." Each month throughout 2013, the CFE Fund is highlighting an innovative program from a CFE Coalition city. Join us to learn more about how these experts make it happen. 

 

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Supervitamin Effect: Integrating Financial Empowerment

This compilation of 3 reports outlines New York City's innovative service delivery approach, integrating financial empowerment programming directly into social services to achieve the "Supervitamin Effect". By addressing underlying financial instability, these public policy integrations break the cycle of increasing demand and decreasing resources in antipoverty efforts across the country.

 

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Kindergarten to College: a case study

Kindergarten to College is the first publicly funded, universal children’s college savings account program in the United States. It was created by the San Francisco Office of Financial Empowerment in 2010. Read the case study.

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Professional Services

Through our Professional Services practice, the CFE Fund supports municipal administrations, mayoral candidates, local legislators, CBOs, and local and national philanthropy in the development of municipal financial empowerment approaches.

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Assessing Need

Municipal financial empowerment strategies are known both for being replicable at large scale, and for being "personalized" to a city's individual needs. The CFE Fund helps mayors and their partners to identify where to focus first.

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Assessing Opportunity

Local governments have a number of effective access points for leading and scaling financial empowerment programs and services. The CFE Fund and its Coalition partners have on-the-ground experience identifying the right point of entry for successful leadership.

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