Four Out of Five Americans Were Financially Unhealthy at Least Once Over Last Five Years
Novel five-year research uses proprietary Financial Health Pulse data, the nation’s benchmark measurement for finhealth, to provide a unique look at life events, income and other factors that most impact individual financial health over time.
How Measurement Can Put Teeth Behind Stakeholder Capitalism
The new commitment to Stakeholder Capitalism Metrics by the World Economic Forum is the first step on a journey to improving the lives of all stakeholders - including customers, employees, and communities.
Supporting the Futures of Young Adults Starts with Understanding Their Financial Lives
Our new report, “Race, Ethnicity, and the Financial Lives of Young Adults,” sheds light on the different financial challenges faced by young adults, especially Black and Latinx young adults.
Start Here: A Step-by-Step Guide to Impact Evaluation
Understanding why you want to conduct impact evaluation is the first step in determining how you should do it.
The Case for a Place-Based Approach to Financial Health
By Necati Celik Associate, Financial Health Network Place is security, space is freedom: we are attached to the one and long for the other. Yi Fu Tuan, 2001: 3 There’s no place like home. Due to the pandemic, home has now become both the workplace and the playground for many of us. But what is…
Introducing the 2019 Financial Health Leaders
The 2019 Financial Health Leaders designation offers selected organizations additional benefits including peer-learning opportunities through Financial Health Network’s Financial Health Leaders Working Group, a group of industry influencers from Financial Health Network.
Measuring Financial Health Part 2: 6 Tips for Measuring Your Customers’ Financial Health
Here are six tips discussed in our recent webinar featuring innovative companies who have been using our FinHealth Score Toolkit to measure their customers' financial health.
Are You in the Financial Health Business?
By Jennifer Tescher, CEO of Financial Health Network Whether they yet realize it or not, banks and other financial services companies are in the financial health business. That means they are in business to help their customers develop a strong day-to-day financial system that makes them resilient in the face of challenges and enables them…
Beyond Financial “Inclusion”: Why Language Matters in the Drive toward Social Justice
By Elizabeth Vivirito, Financial Health Network For years, the global and United States financial inclusion communities have worked in parallel, employing slightly different strategies and metrics of success in their aim to build markets that include all people — especially the most vulnerable. More recently the global financial inclusion sector has been focusing on both education about…
That Moment your Idea of Community Expands
All children are “our” children. Financial shocks affect millions of children’s lives. Over 48 million children live in financially struggling households; 38% of these families don’t have savings habits. Financial Health Network has been dedicated to raising awareness around America’s children, publishing research to support the efforts. And this summer, we invited Bob Putnam, author…
EMERGE 2016: Jennifer Tescher’s Big Idea
The following is a transcript from Jennifer Tescher’s Big Idea at the EMERGE 2016 Forum in New Orleans. I don’t know about you, but as a frequent flyer, those announcements when you get on the airplane about “put on your seatbelt”, or “no smoking in the lavatory”, those just sort of wash over me at…
Announcing 7 Companies Measuring Financial Health
By Thea Garon, Senior Manager, Financial Health Network Financial Health Network is pleased to announce the launch of the Financial Health Beta Project, an initiative designed to help providers measure and improve their customers’ financial health. From June to December 2016, participating companies will use Financial Health Network’s 8 financial health indicators to measure and…