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The Office of Financial Empowerment welcomes 61 organizations to receive Your Money, Your Goals training and technical assistance to expand the reach of financial empowerment tools and information to economically vulnerable consumers. 

Whether you’re helping people get a job, find a place to live, or deal with a legal problem, money always comes up. Your Money, Your Goals can help your staff and volunteers start the conversation. We’re looking for 40 organizations to work with us in 2018 to bring Your Money, Your Goals to the people you serve. 

These organizations will receive training and technical assistance on how to use the Your Money, Your Goals financial empowerment materials.

The Office of Financial Empowerment is requesting Letters of Interest from organizations who wish to join the 2017 Your Money, Your Goals cohort.

The Office of Financial Empowerment announces 30 new partners selected to participate in Your Money, Your Goals training and expand the reach of financial empowerment tools and information to low-income consumers. The national launch report, released today, outlines the initial success of the Your Money, Your Goals initiative.

Twenty new social services, legal aid, and volunteer organizations are joining with CFPB to train staff and volunteers on Your Money, Your Goals. You can learn to lead Your Money, Your Goals workshops in your organization or community by joining us on a train-the-trainer webinar.

This expansion builds on the success of last year’s launch of Your Money, Your Goals. Since then, we’ve trained over 2,000 frontline staff in both public and private non-profit social service organizations.

In the six months since we announced the release of Your Money, Your Goals: A Financial Empowerment Toolkit for Social Services Programs, organizations across the country have been at work equipping frontline social services staff to use its information and tools to help their clients learn financial decision-making skills. This comprehensive guide to empowered financial decision-making covers topics like budgeting daily expenses, managing debt, and avoiding financial tricks and traps.

Today, we’re announcing that as part of Project Catalyst, we’ll be working with H&R Block to evaluate practices to promote consumer saving behavior during tax time.