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Jul 21, 2020

Volunteer Of The Month: Vee Clark

Working in financial services for most of her career, Vee Clark knows first-hand the need for early financial education. Most of her days...

Jun 16, 2020

Volunteer Of The Month: Sandy Rogers

As a mother of four children who are teens and young adults, Sandy has a first-hand appreciation for the youth financial education the CF...

May 20, 2020

An Old Concept Is New Again

This very unexpected pandemic caught everybody by surprise emotionally and financially. Many people are in the scary position of not bein...

May 20, 2020

Volunteer Of The Month: Sabrina Ayala

Sabrina Ayala is a model volunteer, in many ways. Not only does she personally help at Mad City Money events on a regular basis, as Direc...

Mar 18, 2020

March 2020 Volunteer Of The Month: Manuel Valdez

As a young adult, Manuel Valdez has already personally learned some important financial lessons the hard way – by life experience. When h...

Mar 18, 2020

Use Dinner Table Questions To Help Kids Learn About Finances

The mention of the family dinner table typically brings to mind a nostalgic time when life was less hectic and families would come togeth...

Mar 18, 2020

February 2020 Volunteer Of The Month: Yessica Sanchez-Bran

It’s been six months since Yessica Sanchez-Bran was first introduced to the CFE’s financial education programs, when she joined the team ...

Jan 25, 2020

January 2020 Volunteer Of The Month: Monique Raja

Having worked in the education field, Monique Raja sees first-hand the need for practical financial life skills that CFE’s Mad City Money...

Jan 16, 2020

Back-to-School Budgeting

The annual back-to-school ritual is a retail bonanza. Americans will spend roughly $80-billion on binders, books, flash drives and felt p...

Jan 15, 2020

Volunteer of the Month

Walter Cruz is a Financial Coach with Youth Policy Institute (YPI), an organization the CFE has been honored to partner with this year. A...

Jan 15, 2020

Making Financial Choices

Center for Financial Empowerment empowers high school youth and young adults by teaching real-life financial lessons through activities a...

Oct 2, 2019

Volunteer Of The Month: Perla Lopez

For the month of August, we’re recognizing Perla Lopez as our Volunteer Of The Month! Perla is a SCE FCU team member at the Horizon Ridge...

Oct 2, 2019

Volunteer Of The Month: Michael Zeledon

Center for Financial Empowerment began facilitating the Mad City Money financial simulation activity since 2010. The people who helped as...

Oct 2, 2019

Teaching Teens About Finances

Believe it or not, there’s a knack to keeping teens interested and engaged. When it comes to topics like managing money and using credit,...

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