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Members of our national network of more than 7,500 community-based organization staff members share their success stories and innovative strategies. Learn how other agencies are using Consumer Action’s free multilingual educational materials to empower consumers and make a difference in their communities.

• Consumers jumpstart their savings using FinTech apps
  Consumer Action helped 38 consumers and nine non-profit staffers save nearly $22,000 during a five-month period through the use of new FinTech (financial technology) apps/online platforms,
• San Francisco senior ball is a big draw
  Each year, TODCO Group, a community-based housing/community development
• Conference reveals how discrimination still harms communities of color
  Consumer Action was proud to co-sponsor the Understanding Segregation: Tools to Advance Access and Opportunity conference hosted by Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California on
• No April fools to be found at last month’s Financial Education Week
  Financial Education Week, or Semana Financiera, kicked off on April 1 at the Mexican Consulate’s office in San Francisco. Consumer Action participated in the
• Hablamos con la Mexican American Opportunity Foundation
  Consumer Action has partnered with the Mexican American Opportunity Foundation (MAOF) since 2013 to help educate and empower its primarily Latino clients. MAOF was established in 1963
• Tzu Chi Foundation, Consumer Action combat Chinese senior scams
  After attending a Consumer Action train-the-trainer event in which Consumer Action’s Nelson Santiago discussed for-profit school scams, Shelley Wang of Tzu Chi Foundation
• Family Economic Success Series partnership helps immigrant consumers
  In the last quarter of 2018, Consumer Action partnered with Portola Family Connections to deliver two money management presentations for women participating in its Family Economic
• Free consumer education at San Francisco’s Chinatown resource fair
  Community outreach manager Jamie Woo and project associate Cui Yan Xie represented Consumer Action at the 14th annual Chinatown Community Resource Fair in early November
• Low-income seniors learn how to avoid fraud, and more
  This summer, two Consumer Action staff members, Jamie Woo and Cui Yan Xie, attended San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Senior Ball at the Moscone
• CASH Campaign and Consumer Action strengthen family economic stability
  The CASH (Creating Assets, Savings and Hope) Campaign of Maryland
• Credit Builders Alliance gives credit where credit is due
  Over the last year, long-term Consumer Action partner Credit Builders Alliance (CBA) has been ramping up its use of technology and innovation to train financial
• You are invited to join Keep Me Posted North America campaign
  Consumer Action wants to make our community based partners aware of a new campaign that is starting up in the U.S. and Canada called
• Local consumers benefit from free financial resources in Fontana, CA
  Consumer Action’s community outreach and training manager, Linda Williams, recently attended Fontana’s 15th Annual Community Assistance Program Resource Fair. The Southern
• Advocates travel to nation’s capital for Consumer Lobby Day
  In May, months of planning and coordination paid off when over 100 consumer groups and allies descended on Washington, DC, for Consumer Lobby Day, sponsored by
• Conference challenges advocates to wage war against discrimination
  Reflecting our commitment to housing education and advocacy, Consumer Action was a sponsor of the April 25th Fair Housing Conference 2018: Past Accomplishments, Future Challenges, an
• Professional development events for financial educators
  The Association of Financial Counseling & Planning Education (AFCPE) is offering a series of professional development webinars. The association is graciously offering Consumer Action network
• Consumer Action launches a financial health pilot
  Consumer Action is partnering with Catholic Charities Dallas, Haven Neighborhood Services, HOPES CAP Inc. and VetsGroup to test financial technology apps and track the outcomes
• CBOs weigh in on Consumer Action publications
  As Consumer Action expands its consumer education library with new publications and training modules, we like to check in with our “customers” every
• Join America Saves and Military Saves!
  America Saves Week and its campaign for servicemembers, Military Saves Week, are national efforts to help consumers set savings goals, make a savings plan and
• Participe en America Saves y Military Saves
  Las campañas para promover el ahorro durante la semana de America Saves Week y, para las fuerzas armadas, Military Saves Week, representan un
• 歡 迎加入全美儲蓄（America Saves) 及軍隊儲蓄 (Military Saves) 推廣活動！
  全美儲蓄推廣週及專為軍職人員所設立的軍隊儲蓄推廣週，是全國齊心協力為消費者所提供的一項活動，它能幫你達到儲蓄目標、設定儲蓄計劃，以及學習自動儲蓄之道！歡迎加入消費者行動(Consumer Action)以及全國成千上萬團體，讓我們共同來促進這件深具意義的大事。請勿擔心，參加這項活動十分簡易，你可藉助免費的網上工具及資料箱，它能提供豐富的活動構想、網上對話貼文、相關文章訊息，以及各項嘉惠社區的活動。正因為您的參與和幫助，這些活動即將為社區帶來巨大且深遠的正面影響！ 作為這些儲蓄活動的推廣者，消費者行動希望能統計我們的合作夥伴所提供的協助。如果各個參與組織能夠在参與活動以前先點擊以下鏈接, 答覆一份問卷調查，然後在完成推廣活動後告知我們您所收集到的儲蓄承諾有多少、接受服務的社群及人數，以及新開設帳戶的統計等。我們將十分感激大家。這些統計將協助我們追蹤合作夥伴們所帶來的影響力及成功率。在活動開始前，請先參加我們的預先問卷調查：https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ca-americasaves. 參加全美儲蓄推廣活動，以及／或是軍隊儲蓄推廣活動，你需要先進入以下各個相關鏈接： 如想登記參加2018年全美儲蓄推廣週，以及／或是軍隊儲蓄推廣週，使用以下表格可以讓您立刻加入上述一項或兩項儲蓄活動：
• Innovative agency meets broader financial needs of consumers
  Long-term Consumer Action network partner Housing and Economic Rights Advocates (HERA) aims to ensure that all low- and moderate-income California residents, particularly those most vulnerable,
• Consumers learned to invest at ‘Investor Bootcamp’
  The Alliance for Investor Education (AIE) sponsored a free event for investors in early December. During the afternoon, AIE members, federal and state regulators and
• Fall events for financial educators
  The Association for Financial Counseling & Planning Education (AFCPE) is offering a Financial
• How one housing agency uses our free resources to help its clients
  Habitat for Humanity of the Mississippi Gulf Coast (HFHMGC), in Gulfport, Mississippi, builds and sells affordable housing, rehabilitates existing housing and provides free one-on-one financial
• Ohio Investor Education Program offers counseling, planning services
  The Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education (AFCPE) recently rolled out its free Ohio Investor Education Program. The program links Ohioans to educational resources,
• Consumer protections for servicemembers and veterans
  While the Treasury Department, the administration and many
• Housing Rights Summit attendees honor National Fair Housing Month
  In honor of the anniversary of the passage of the Fair Housing Act, and in remembrance of the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King
• DASH for the STASH: Learn investment skills, enter to win cash
  Now in its fourth year, DASH for the STASH is an investor education and protection program and poster contest that arms investors with the
• Consumer Action educates seniors on elder fraud, scams
  In March, Consumer Action partnered with Woolf House, an affordable senior rental housing community in San Francisco, to conduct two elder fraud presentations (in both
• Kicking off Military Saves Week at California’s Camp Pendleton
  Military Saves Week was February 27-March 4, and Consumer Action’s community outreach and training manager, Linda Williams, helped kick off the campaign by participating
• EARN helps families save using technology
  EARN, a long-term partner of Consumer Action, is a San Francisco-based non-profit that designs and launches online savings tools to create financial stability for America
• Consumer Action joins Alliance for Investor Education
  Consumer Action is pleased to announce our new membership in the Alliance for Investor Education. Founded in 1996, the Alliance is a non-profit consortium of leading
• Fannie Mae’s UNfair housing
  The National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) and 20 civil rights groups (including four Consumer Action community partners) filed a federal lawsuit against Fannie Mae for racial
• Housing counseling agency uses Consumer Action materials to help clients secure, maintain housing
  The Calcasieu Parish Housing Counseling Agency, operating near the Gulf Coast just west of New Orleans, is an invaluable community organization providing one-on-one counseling and
• Coalition helps communities help vets
  Consumer Action has been busy traveling to communities across the U.S. to educate those that serve veterans, servicemembers and military families on how to
• Navicore Solutions: Helping consumers in need through Money Management 1-2-3
  Navicore Solutions, a national nonprofit providing credit counseling, housing counseling, budgeting and financial education to consumers in need, contacted Consumer Action in September to let
• MoneyWi$e: It’s fun to learn at the YMCA
  Consumer Action’s Audrey Perrott led a training last month for a group of women at San Francisco’s Bayview Hunters Point YMCA
• Out and About: Elderly consumers have a ball
  Each year, TODCO Group, a community-based housing/community development non-profit corporation operating in San
• This just in: Financial Literacy Project a huge success
  Consumer Action recently released a final report on the success of our Financial Literacy Project, made possible by funding from the Rose Foundation for Communities
• MoneyWi$e: Helping teens and families to manage money
  Consumer Action’s Audrey Perrott led two trainings last month using the materials the organization’s Moneywi$e financial literacy partnership with Capital One created.
• Mini-grants to financially educate underserved consumers
  The Checking and Savings Accounts module, trainings and
• Consumer Action helps stop a bad auto loan from destroying man’s life
  Erika Toriz, executive director of Haven Neighborhood Services in Los Angeles, contacted Consumer Action’ s
• A financial fraud training for advocates
  Joining local community professionals, victim advocates, housing counselors and legal services attorneys on financial fraud, Consumer Action’s associate director of outreach and training,
• Boning up on fair housing issues
  Housing was on the agenda for Consumer Action’s Audrey Perrott in January, when our San Francisco-based Associate Director of Outreach and Training attended
• ‘Primed and Prepped’ for money management
  In November, the Bayview YMCA in San Francisco invited Consumer Action’s Audrey Perrott back to the Primed and Prepped program’s current
• MoneyWi$e helps local Girl Scouts earn their badges
  The Girl Scout motto is “Be prepared”—an apt mantra for many of life’s challenges, including managing your money. Through
• Mission First puts its residents first
  Philadelphia-based Mission First Housing Group’s mission is to develop and manage affordable, safe and sustainable homes for people in need, with a focus
• Spreading word of new money transfer rules
  According to World Bank statistics, U.S. residents sent more than $50 billion to recipients in other countries in 2012. They also spent millions of dollars in
• LA-based group makes good use of Consumer Action materials
  Haven relies on the materials exclusively for its financial literacy education outreach and training, as it literally goes door-to-door to reach clients and community partners.
• Fifth Annual Financial Literacy Leadership Conference
  The event brought together leaders from community-based organizations, businesses, government agencies and academic institutions for discussions on effective ways to empower consumers financially. Williams led
• Consumer Action awards second phase of MoneyWi$e mini-grants
  Each group receives a $7,500 mini-grant to support their innovative financial empowerment projects in diverse communities. (Grant application is by invitation only.) This phase was open
• Consumer Action’s work with the Chinese media
  Consumer Action is unique among national consumer groups in its use of media to reach Chinese-American communities nationwide. Our Community Outreach Manager Jamie Woo offers
• Alabama Cooperative Extension staff receives WirelessED training
  By Carol Centrallo, Ph.D., Extension Specialist, Alabama Cooperative Extension System Just look around and you will see someone using a wireless personal
• MoneyWi$e 2012 mini-grants recipients announced
  Nine community organizations that attended MoneyWi$e trainings in Texas and Louisiana or used MoneyWi$e materials in their communities have been awarded mini-grants by
• 2012 Lunar New Year Greetings from Consumer Action
  Consumer Action conducted a MoneyWi$e training in Houston last year, and has established a strong relationship with the Chinese community there. Consumer Action wishes
• MoneyWi$e Stipend Report - Phase Two
  Consumer Action awarded 10 grants of $5,000 each to the 10 organizations described in this report for work to be conducted between Oct. 25 and April 15, 2011. This report provides
• Consumer Action presents to credit unions
  Consumer Action was invited to speak at the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) staff meeting in Nashville, TN in October about our financial empowerment initiatives,
• MoneyWi$e Stipend Report - Phase One
  This report prepared by Consumer Action provides a snapshot of each grantee's mission and services and describes their stipend (mini-grant) projects. The report also
• Foreclosure hotline for tenants in California
  Tenants Together, California’s Statewide Organization for Renters’ Rights, offers a hotline
• Coastal citizens address effects of oil spill
  Consumer Action's multilingual consumer education materials played a role in the event. On June 1, 2010 local residents had a chance to speak one-on-one
• Consumer Action lends expertise to national housing initiative
  The foreclosure prevention fair held Dec. 5 at South El Monte High School in El Monte, CA was one of a series of events offered by
• Comunidad Latina Credit Union offers exemplary financial services
  Consumer Action reminds you that it’s important for consumers to shop around when looking for banking services. It’s always a good
• MoneyWise brings hope to Post-Katrina Louisiana
  In the wake of Hurricane Katrina in the summer of 2007, Consumer Action and Capital One used their unique partnership to help the devastated community-based organizations,
• Texas program makes a difference with CA Moneywise modules
  Overview A lack of basic money-management skills is widespread among Americans. The unfortunate results include increasing consumer debt, low saving rates, home foreclosures, lost job
• MoneyWi$e a crucial tool in battling unemployment
  Battling a skyrocketing unemployment rate, which reached 9.5% in June, organizations on the front lines of the nation’s dismal job market are using MoneyWi$e
• CA Joins Forces with NABVETS to Educate Veterans
  Consumer Action entered into a partnership agreement with NABVETS, creating a national capacity to mutually provide access, manpower and resources to offer MoneyWi$e financial
• Changing lives with financial education
  MUA is one of the first non-profits in Boston founded by and led entirely by Latinas. Our mission is grounded in mentoring and training women
• Using financial literacy to improve lives
  Partnering for success Since November 2007, Empowerment Seminars, Inc. and InfoSource Communications, LLC have pooled our resources and expertise to provide financial literacy training and professional
• 2009 MoneyWi$e Stipend Program
  Consumer Action and Capital One are proud to announce the selection of stipend programs for 2009. Seventeen community organizations that attended the MoneyWi$e trainings hosted
• 2008 Moneywise Stipend Programs
  In an effort to support community-based organizations to educate consumers about financial management, Consumer Action and Capital One are proud to announce the selection of
• Improving the quality of life for colonia residents - Texas
  Consumer Action’s Sol Carbonell and Audrey Perrott visited Texas’s Border Fair Housing and Economic Justice Center (BFHC) to learn more about
• On Lok’s second annual fundraising event
  On April 24, Mikael Wagner of Consumer Action attended On Lok's second annual fundraising event. The event, sponsored by AARP of California, was attended by 25
• Celebrate Consumer Protection Week
  Consumer Action invites your agency to join a group of federal, state, and local government agencies and national consumer advocacy organizations to launch the 10th
• America Saves Week - Get involved!
  America Saves Week (February 24 to March 2) is an annual opportunity to encourage saving, debt reduction and wealth building. Partnerships can be established with local Saves
• Consumer discounts on prescription drugs
  Consumer Action strives to provide you with the latest resources and information to better serve your clients. Today, we want to share with you the
• Commitment to community development - Phoenix, AZ
  Community development at Desert Schools means staying true to our core value of people helping people. We believe that community development happens by supporting education,