Serving Consumers with Criminal Records
Join this session to explore the unique financial needs of these consumers and how financial services providers, fintechs, nonprofits, and others can take action to advance their financial health.
How Financial Services for Women can Help – and Hurt
Join this expert-led discussion to uncover actionable opportunities to better support the unmet financial needs of women.
Using Customer Behavior to Drive Financial Health Impact
Explore how to leverage design principles rooted in behavioral insights to uncover what putting financial health first looks like in practice.
Innovating Against Predatory Lending Products
A majority of American payday loan borrowers make less than $30k per year and end up on average paying $520 in fees to borrow $375 over five months. Learn how DailyPay is innovating against predatory lending products. Presented by DailyPay
Learning to Serve Main Street in Times of Crisis
In this session, hear from public and private sector speakers on insights gained in the past few years about structuring effective partnerships, ensuring equitable distribution of relief, and preparing for any new challenges the future may hold.
Protecting Patients from Medical Debt: Strategies for Hospitals & Health Systems
The COVID-19 pandemic magnified the interdependencies of health, financial health, and equity. Now, a recent White House Executive Order that directs federal agencies to lessen the burden of medical debt on American families highlights the responsibility of healthcare providers in protecting patients financially. Join us as we examine the challenges posed by medical debt and action items for hospitals and health systems to help fight this national crisis.
EMERGE Scholarship 2022
Rachel Schneider: Mining Empathic, Data-Driven Solutions
There are few people more familiar with the financial lives of Americans than Rachel Schneider. Her seminal research on working families has profoundly changed our understanding of the financial struggles faced by families and communities across the U.S. An author-turned-entrepreneur, Rachel joins Jennifer to talk about her work on the pivotal Financial Diaries project and her new endeavor, Canary, a fintech company aimed at helping workers during moments of financial challenge.
Building Equitable Workforces
Learn how benefits and total rewards strategies can foster more equal financial health outcomes across your workforce.
Building Savings for Frontline Workers
Hear from experts and partners at BlackRock’s Emergency Savings Initiative (ESI) on successful approaches and lessons learned through delivering emergency savings solutions to frontline workers.
Living Wages: A Tool for Financial Health
Explore what it means to pay wages that support workers’ financial health and how companies can evaluate whether their wages are meeting workers’ needs.
Frontline Worker Perspectives
Hear directly from workers about actions employers can take to have a positive impact on workers’ financial health, job satisfaction, and engagement.