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Financial Solutions Lab: Innovating To Improve Financial Health
Over its nearly 10-year tenure, this cross-sector initiative spurred a new generation of solutions that positively influenced the lives of millions.
Improving Benefits Access: Insights from the Financial Solutions Lab Exchange
Learn how three nonprofit-fintech partnerships developed solutions to improve the benefits application process, support renters, and help child care providers.
Credit Building in the Digital Age
Innovations in fintech are creating new opportunities – and posing new risks – for consumers with invisible, unscorable, or subprime credit.
The Benefits Cliff Dilemma: Navigating Wage Increases and Public Benefits
Interviews with home care workers reveal how even well-intentioned raises can lead to benefits cliffs that cause workers to lose out on public benefits – putting them in a worse financial position overall.
Supporting Returning Citizens’ Financial Health
Drawing on insights from recent pilot projects, this brief discusses ways in which stakeholders across sectors can empower people coming out of prison to access identification and financial services.
Workplace Financial Health Innovation: Exploring the Spectrum of Financial Guidance Solutions for Your Employees
Employees across industries are managing a wide range of financial health needs, and they are increasingly looking to their employer for support. As employers consider which financial guidance benefits to offer, they must consider a range of factors – including the makeup of their workforce, how the guidance is delivered, and cost structures – in order to identify the most high-impact solutions for their employees.
Blogs, Articles, Impact Stories
Financial Solutions Lab: Creating Next-Gen Tools To Advance FinHealth
The Financial Solutions Lab ushered in a new era of fintech solutions to tackle persistent gaps in consumer financial health.
Propel: Helping Families Make the Most of Their Government Benefits
Find out how a fintech innovator partnered with the Financial Health Network to transform the public benefits experience for millions of users.
Finli: Using Fintech To Support Black-Owned Businesses
Learn how fintech Finli partnered with the Financial Health Network to help Black business owners rebuild and recover from the pandemic.
Summer: Helping Borrowers Secure Student Loan Forgiveness
Learn how fintech Summer partnered with the Financial Health Network to help students pay down debt and build their financial health.
ONE@Work: Helping Workers Bridge the Income Gap Between Paydays
Learn how fintech Even, now ONE@Work, partnered with the Financial Health Network to help more people access their wages right when they need them.
Nonprofits and Fintechs Improving Benefits Access: Our 2022 Exchange Grantees
The Financial Solutions Lab has awarded grants to three partnerships that make up our 2022 Exchange cohort. The nonprofit and fintech organizations in the cohort will work to promote financial health by improving access to benefits and measuring the impact of their projects on the consumers they serve.
Videos
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.
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.
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.
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.
Navigating the True Costs of Auto Insurance for Low-income Americans
Financial Solutions Lab alums Propel and Sigo Seguros discussed providing affordable and accessible auto insurance to the Spanish-speaking market. Between higher purchase prices and the fluctuating cost of gas, auto ownership and maintenance is stretching the budgets of many households across the country. And that's before you consider the fact that a disproportionate number of drivers from immigrant and low-income communities are rated as "high risk" policyholders and pay above average insurance costs.
Meeting the Needs of Consumers of Color With Fintech
How can innovation better serve consumers of color? Join us to understand how fintech tools and trusted community institutions can support the financial health of consumers of color and young people.
Press
What Works: Advancing global financial health through tech
JPMorganChase offers insights from a decade of fintech innovations advancing financial health in the U.S. and India.
Entrepreneur Focus: Jennifer Tescher
Two events — a financial crisis followed by a global pandemic — demonstrated to Jennifer Tescher just how vulnerable the majority of Americans are.
Financial Solutions Lab Announces 2022 Accelerator Cohort
The Financial Solutions Lab, an initiative launched and managed by the Financial Health Network in collaboration with founding partner JPMorgan Chase & Co. and with support from Prudential Financial, today announced that it has selected six organizations for its 2022 Accelerator program which is focused on financial benefits and tools.
Financial Solutions Lab selects six for 2022 cohort
The Financial Solutions Lab, an initiative launched and managed by the Financial Health Network in collaboration with founding partner JPMorgan Chase & Co. and with support from Prudential Financial, today announced that it has selected six organizations for its 2022 Accelerator program which is focused on financial benefits and tools.
Financial Solutions Lab Announces 2022 Accelerator Cohort Focused on Access and Removing Systemic Barriers to Financial Benefits & Tools for Underserved Consumers
Selected companies focus on streamlining low- to moderate-income, Black, and Latinx individuals’ navigation and use of benefits and tools in support of better financial health.
Have fintechs cracked the financial inclusion code?
Financial Health Network President and CEO, Jennifer Tescher, joins on Bankshot podcast at the Money 20/20 conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.