EMERGE Financial Health Overview
Our annual flagship event is committed to advancing financial health. For more than 17 years, EMERGE: Financial Health has united decision-makers from across the marketplace to learn and collaborate on improving financial health for all.
EMERGE Insights Overview
Do your best work and help your organization drive change more effectively with the latest data, insights, and trends. EMERGE Insights attracts dedicated finhealth leaders across sectors to dig deeper into current challenges, define best practices, and strategize ways to apply the latest learnings.
EMERGE Workplace Overview
EMERGE Workplace rallies HR professionals, employers, and benefits providers to find solutions that can help both workers and businesses thrive. Learn about the specific needs of demographic groups, benefits design, and effective delivery models during this worker-focused event.
EMERGE Financial Health 2024 Scholarship
A Conversation with Janis Bowdler, the Treasury Department’s First Counselor for Racial Equity
Janis Bowdler has spent the last two decades advancing economic equity solutions for communities of color and breaking down the barriers that underpin the disparities in wealth and financial security by race and gender. Listen to her discuss her vision and goals for advancing racial equity in public policy.
EMERGE Financial Health 2024 Schedule
Breaking Barriers: Expanding Access to Capital for Small Businesses
Small- and medium-sized businesses are the backbone of our economy, yet many entrepreneurs struggle to access capital – particularly those from underrepresented communities. Join us as we explore the current capital provider ecosystem, ways to equitably assess creditworthiness, and strategies to expand capital access and bolster financial health for entrepreneurs.
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Start Today, Succeed Tomorrow: Seizing the Moment for FinancialHealth
Join fellow Members for a preview of findings from the Financial Health Pulse® 2023 U.S. Trends Report, a panel discussion of hot topics in financial health, and an early look at Member benefits coming in 2024.
Building Trust in Banks
In America, closing gaps in financial inclusion means overcoming confidence barriers as well as access barriers. Hear industry experts as they share new insights on financial inclusion and solutions for connecting underserved communities with trustworthy services that build financial health.
Thank you for Registering for Leveraging Nonprofit-Fintech Partnerships To Improve the Financial Health of Child Care Providers
Leveraging Nonprofit-Fintech Partnerships To Improve the Financial Health of Child Care Providers
Hear 2022 Financial Solutions Lab Exchange grantees discuss how they’re helping providers streamline the subsidy billing process and improve their financial health.
Uniting for FinHealth: Building a Future of Equitable Systems
As we approach our 20 years of the movement, we reflect on the immense strides we have made thus far. However, the challenges we face are greater than any individual, team, company, or industry can solve alone. Come explore novel avenues of collaboration and the construction of equitable systems that cater to the requirements of those facing financial adversity.
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2023 EMERGE Sponsors
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Uplifting Communities Through Fintech: Building a Pathway to Financial Inclusion
Join Visa and a few of their innovative fintech partners as they discuss how collaboration in delivering financial services can create a more inclusive banking system. This webinar is EMERGE sponsored content presented by Visa.
EMERGE Financial Health 2024
Reflect. Rethink. Rewire. Don’t miss the finhealth conference that launched a movement.
Thank you for Registering for Closing Benefits Gaps: Incorporating Benefits Screening Into Financial Coaching
Closing Benefits Gaps: Incorporating Benefits Screening Into Financial Coaching
Hear from Financial Solutions Lab 2022 Exchange grantee partners about their work to embed tech-enabled benefits screening into financial coaching sessions.
Advancing Cross-Sector Action on FinHealth
The financial health challenges we face are bigger than any of us can solve alone. Join us to discuss how we can collaborate on standards and systems that move the needle on financial health.
The Transformative Power of Financial Health Measurement
Hear how innovators have achieved meaningful outcomes for employees, customers, and communities by measuring financial health – and consider how your organization can use measurement to drive change.
Community-Based Approaches to Driving Impact: The Power of Local Financial Institutions
Don’t miss this discussion on the vital role community-serving financial institutions play in promoting financial health and equity.
Maintaining Momentum in the Fight for Racial Equity
Listen in as financial services, philanthropy, and community leaders look back at our progress in the three years since George Floyd’s murder – and look ahead to the work that remains to be done.
Designing Products and Benefits That Work
Get real-life lessons from business leaders designing and testing effective finhealth solutions for their customers and employees.
Walking the Talk: Living the Business Case for FinHealth
What does it really mean to be a financial health-focused business? Hear case studies from companies at different stages of living out their financial health strategies.
Diving Deeper: The Financial Health Needs of People With Disabilities
Join us for an intimate session with disability experts and individuals with lived experience as they discuss what it will take to create an equitable system. Featuring brand-new research from the Financial Health Network and Principal® Foundation.
Taking the Pulse of Financial Health and Spending in America
Drawing on insights from the most recent research – including the 2023 Financial Health Pulse® U.S. Trends Report and the 2023 FinHealth Spend Report – this session will paint a nuanced picture of Americans’ financial health and the challenges they face today.
EMERGE Insights 2023 Schedule
EMERGE Insights 2023
EMERGE Insights 2023 is the place for finhealth leaders across sectors to join together, identify urgent needs, and prepare to do their best work yet.
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Helping Small Business Employers Deliver Financial Inclusion Benefits
Small businesses often struggle to provide the financial inclusion benefits offered by larger employers. What solutions could close the gap for millions of American workers? This article is EMERGE sponsored content presented by Principal Financial Group.
Thank you for Registering for Renter Financial Health and Financial Shock-Absorbers
Renter Financial Health and Financial Shock-Absorbers
Join 2022 Financial Solutions Lab Exchange grantee Flagstone Initiative as they discuss how early intervention can support renters’ financial health.
Thank you for Registering for Uplifting Communities Through Fintech: Building a Pathway to Financial Inclusion
Jennifer Tescher | Leaning Forward for FinHealth
The road to financial health for all is long, and Financial Health Network President & CEO Jennifer Tescher has been walking it for almost two decades. In that time, she’s learned that lasting change requires diverse ideas and voices. She started EMERGE Everywhere with that vision, and over the past year, she’s hosted finhealth visionaries making change across sectors. Listen to this special solo episode to hear Jen’s thoughts on the progress of financial health – and her hopes for the year ahead.
Dr. Bechara Choucair | The Next Great Health Crisis
Dr. Bechara Choucair grew up in Beirut in the midst of the Lebanese Civil War, raised by parents that created stability in an otherwise unstable time. What he learned then informs his current work as Senior Vice President and Chief Health Officer for Kaiser Permanente: Stable environments create better, more equitable outcomes. In this episode, Dr. Choucair explains how health systems can promote health by fighting back against financial insecurity, which he sees as the next great health crisis.
Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Through Tech, Community, and Empowerment
Join 2022 FSL Accelerator cohort member Stackwell Capital for a discussion of how finhealth stakeholders can empower Black communities to build meaningful wealth that shrinks the racial wealth gap.
John Hope Bryant | Lessons of History and Hope
In 1992, John Hope Bryant brought a bus full of largely White corporate leaders to witness the disinvestment in South Central LA. This was the first big move for Operation HOPE, Inc., a nonprofit that John founded to empower underserved communities through financial literacy. In this episode, John and Jennifer discuss everything he’s learned in the 30 years since that first bus tour – including the importance of financial inclusion and building Black wealth.
How Bank of America Supports Financial Well-Being
Low- and moderate-income households face daily financial challenges, which have been intensified by the pandemic and the continued racial wealth gap. Financial institutions like Bank of America can address these barriers to financial health through programs like Community Banking. In this video, Bank of America’s Head of Community Banking and Consumer Governance Christine Channels explains how its unique Consumer Banking program supports underserved communities and small businesses alike on the path to financial well-being – all while creating more value for the institution. Presented by Bank of America
Tom Spann | Delivering Brighter Futures to Employees
Tom Spann is no stranger to helping people tackle financial challenges without judgment. He founded Accolade in 2007 to help working Americans navigate their health benefits, then moved on to co-found employee financial wellness company Brightside in 2017. He did so to shed light on what he sees as a critical, yet underserved, part of health equity: financial health. In this episode, Tom and Jennifer discuss the role employers can play in improving financial well-being and using behavioral science to make managing money easier.
Gigi Hyland | Championing Credit Unions and Communities
A longtime finhealth champion in the credit union industry, Gigi Hyland has spent her career empowering credit unions to work within their communities to address today’s unique financial health challenges. In this episode, Gigi and Jennifer discuss how credit unions can better serve their members' financial needs, technology's role in building financial well-being, and the deeply intertwined relationship between physical health and financial health.
Michael J. Hsu | Trust, Hope, and the Financial System
As a doctor’s son, Michael Hsu sees many parallels between the financial health movement and the goals of medicine: “The point is not to administer medicine. The point is to have healthy patients so that they can go about their lives.” He applies that perspective daily in his work as Acting Comptroller of the Currency. In this episode, Michael and Jennifer discuss how growing the federal government’s focus on finhealth can serve consumers and their communities while rebuilding faith in our institutions.
America Needs Small Businesses. Here’s How We Can Help Them Succeed
Small businesses are essential to our economic well-being, but they face common challenges. Learn how the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth is building a support ecosystem to help them and fuel an inclusive economic recovery. This article is EMERGE sponsored content presented by Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth.
Holly O’Neill | A Consumer-Centric Culture
Holly O’Neill believes in the importance of building a consumer-first culture, having spent most of her career designing banking products and services around the true financial health needs of customers. Now, as president of retail banking for Bank of America, Holly joins Jennifer to discuss her work advocating for the financial health of consumers and the role retail banks can play in improving financial wellness.
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Making Financial Health Part of Our DNA
In this deep dive on the business of financial health, explore how Bank of America is supporting customers through challenging economic times. Find out why and how the organization has woven financial health into the core of their operations, with new policies designed to improve customer outcomes.
Serving Customers As Their Needs And Expectations Evolve
The pandemic underscored how financial institutions must evolve to best serve changing customer needs. Customers relied on their financial partners to support them during turbulent times, and many banks rose to the challenge to provide solutions that are digital, personalized, and support financial health. As economic uncertainty persists, customer expectations of their banking partners continue to grow– from the products and services they offer to where they are offered. Those who will succeed are those who listen, innovate, and provide customers with the experiences they are looking for in today’s world. Hear how financial institutions can meet the moment and innovate to serve changing customer needs.
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