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City explores Financial Empowerment Center to expand no‑cost, one‑on‑one counseling
Summary
City staff and Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund presented a planning update on a proposed Financial Empowerment Center that would offer free, professional one‑on‑one financial counseling and could be funded in part by national grants and private match.
Tempe staff and a national nonprofit told the City Council work study session the city is exploring a Financial Empowerment Center (FEC) to provide no‑cost, individualized financial counseling to residents and to support housing stability and poverty reduction efforts.
Tim Birch, Tempe community health and human services director, and Rose Harvey, manager of FEC Innovations at Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund (CFE Fund), briefed the council on the FEC model and local planning steps. Birch said the center is intended to link financial counseling to homelessness prevention, eviction prevention and other city priorities. Harvey described the national model: it is a city‑led public service…
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