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Financial Health Network

Field	Value
name	Financial Health Network
type	nonprofit
industry	financial services
founded	2002
hq_location	Chicago
website

The Financial Health Network, formerly known as the Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI), is a nonprofit financial services consultancy headquartered in Chicago, specializing in serving unbanked and underbanked consumers.

An affiliate of ShoreBank Corporation, CFSI grew out of a research project conducted in 2002 by a division of ShoreBank on behalf of the Ford Foundation to examine the gap between supply and demand of financial services for low-income consumers as well as potential strategies to close it. The project, authored by Ellen Seidman and Jennifer Tescher showed that millions of Americans are faced with an inadequate supply of well-designed, reasonably-priced financial products and services to both meet short-term needs and provide opportunities for longer-term wealth creation.

Work

Financial Health Network serves the industry in three primary ways: as an educator, conducting research and disseminating it widely; as a broker, connecting people and organizations within the industry; and as an investor, funding both for-profits and nonprofits. It has partnered with tax preparation firms to help underbanked consumers file their taxes. It regularly provides research grants for financial services researchers. It has researched mobile-banking in connection to the underbanked. It is the sponsor of the annual Underbanked Financial Services Forum, the leading event in this industry.

An April 2013 press release indicated that the Center's Financial Capability Innovation Fund II (FCIF II) would be distributing $2.5 million in grants to eight non-profit organizations, with the goal of supporting efforts to "help consumers improve their credit scores, increase their savings, and avoid unnecessary transaction fees."

References

(2004-02-04). "From Unbanked to Homeowner: Improving the Supply of Financial Services for Low-Income, Low-Asset Customers {{!}} Joint Center for Housing Studies".
"20th Anniversary -".
(2 March 2008). "Why do people use higher-cost alternative financial services? Answers vary | the Daily Gazette".
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2005_Sept_20/ai_n15398514 {{Bare URL inline. (September 2022)
"The Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI) Nonprofit Opportunities Fund — Social Edge".
"CFSI Announces Grant Opportunities for Nonprofit Organizations | Reuters".
"Payments News: CFSI Releases New Research on Mobile Banking and the Underbanked - April 30, 2007".
"CFSI Releases 'Highlights from the Inaugural Underbanked Financial Services Forum' News - CFSI Releases 'Highlights from the Inaugural Underbanked Financial Services Forum' Industry News".
Candid. "Center for Financial Services Innovation Awards $2.5 Million".

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