Community Education

The core of Consumer Action's educational mission is to improve financial literacy at the community level. Tailoring its community education approach, Consumer Action is able to promote informed participation in the marketplace by people of color, low income and rural consumers, recent immigrants and seniors.

On this page we present our unique community education model as well as case studies of our successful work in specific communities.

• Community Education Project—Our Model
  

  Consumer Action has developed a unique, multi-pronged community education and outreach model to improve financial literacy at the community level.

• Community Outreach—AAPI Populations
  

  Consumer Action serves the Asian-American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities with multilingual publications, financial literacy programs, stipend grants, in-language media outreach, a consumer hotline and a multilingual website.

• Network CBOs surveyed on financial literacy needs
  

  Consumer Action surveyed the community based organizations that use its free education and training materials, in order to find out which materials and tools are most useful, and how the groups use these resources to teach financial literacy.

• Serving Spanish-speaking consumers
  

  This article outlines the ways that Consumer Action serves the Hispanic/Latino community.