Our Events

News and photos about Consumer Action's recent activities and events.

• Speaking truth to power at Consumer Action’s national conference
  Attendees and staff at the 9th National Consumer Empowerment Conference in Chicago, IL, last month Our ninth annual National Consumer Empowerment Conference was held in
• For Consumer Action staff, no time to ‘sit back and unwind’
  “Summer summer summertime, time to sit back and unwind.” When Will Smith penned those lyrics he certainly wasn’t referring to Consumer
• Consumer Action, NEFE make it easy to evaluate financial ed programs
  Consumer Action and the National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE) joined forces in late August to educate our network partners on NEFE’s Evaluation
• Community event on job training and apprenticeship programs
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• Sponsors sought for our ninth annual conference
  Consumer Action hosts its 9th National Consumer Empowerment Conference in Rosemont, IL, on Nov. 14-15 near Chicago. The annual conference takes community outreach and consumer
• Webinars explain new cross-border credit reporting tool
  Consumer Action and Nova Credit Inc., a cross-border credit reporting agency, join forces to co-host two webinars on May 9 to educate community partners who serve
• Consumer Action, Albert to host financial technology webinars
  Albert Genius is the first financial service of its kind – a team of human financial experts at your fingertips. Yes, you heard that right
• Train-the-Trainer: Vocational and job training schools
  In late December in downtown Los Angeles, community agencies gathered for a train-the-trainer event featuring Consumer Action’s "Finding the Right Job Training
• Consumer Action’s 2017 National Consumer Empowerment Conference
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• Webinars teach CBO partners how to help clients deal with debt collectors
  Consumer Action and the Consumer Relations Consortium (CRC) cohosted two June debt collection webinars for Consumer Action’s network partners and professionals affiliated with
• Debt collection trainings a big success
  The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) reported that in in 2016 it handled a whopping 88,000 debt collection complaints from consumers! According to the Bureau’s
• Consumer Action, Capital One host digital literacy skills webinars
  Future Edge SM is a self-directed, video-based curriculum designed to
• Consumer Action, FICO co-host credit, financial counseling webinars
  FICO® Score Open Access for Credit & Financial Counseling is a valuable program that enables credit and financial counseling providers in the U.S.
• Consumer Action, Capital One host online banking webinars
  Ready, Set, Bank (RSB) is a free online and in-person blended learning program designed to help seniors bridge the “digital divide” by learning
• Consumer Empowerment Conference a huge success
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• Debt collection resources empower those who owe
  Every year, millions of people must deal with the consequences of delinquent debt. To help these consumers understand their rights during the debt collection process
• Coalition helps communities help vets
  Consumer Action has been busy traveling to communities across the U.S. to educate those that serve veterans, servicemembers and military families on how to
• Financial and retirement planning at your doorstep
  Consumer Action and the non-profit National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE) have joined forces to offer an ongoing webinar series for our network partners. The
• Economic survival for servicemembers and veterans
  Consumer Action trainers Linda Williams and Nelson Santiago recently headed to San Diego to introduce organizations serving current and former members of the military to
• Coast-to-coast trainings on IP transition and prepaid cards
  Consumer Action's Linda Williams and Nelson Santiago recently traveled from coast to coast conducting trainings and workshops to educate community-based organizations and consumers on
• Consumer Action held Prepaid Card training sessions in San Diego
  Consumer Action recently held a community training for nonprofits in San Diego for our  "Choosing a prepaid card" project sponsored
• Online safety trainings held in Philly, Oakland
  We rely on the Internet for so much these days, from shopping to banking to socializing and entertainment, but there can be risks when so
• Florida workshops on new phone network, Internet safety
  Residents, community organization staff and volunteers in South Florida's West Delray Beach area learned how phone technology is evolving and how to stay safe
• Attendees rave about Consumer Empowerment Conference
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• Consumer Action hosts auto insurance trainings in three states
  Consumer Action’s Auto Insurance module explains the importance of having adequate auto
• MoneyWi$e webinars teach about credit and identity theft
  Two informative web-based trainings developed by Consumer Action under its Moneywi$e financial literacy partnership sponsored by Capital One recently provided community-based organizations with the
• Consumer Action tackles homeownership at LA workshop
  Residents of the El Centro Loretto affordable housing development in Los Angeles learned about homeownership at a recent workshop provided by Consumer Action's Nelson
• Consumer Action hosts community financial inclusion trainings
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• Five and counting for Consumer Action’s National Conference
  Now in its fifth year, the Consumer Action National Consumer Empowerment Conference is a hub for community activists who help individuals assert their consumer and
• Forced arbitration documentary premieres in San Francisco
  “Lost in the Fine Print,” Alliance for Justice's new short documentary about forced arbitration, narrates the stories of three people whose lives
• Serving America’s servicemembers, military families and veterans
  Last July, Consumer Action announced it was joining forces with the Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education (AFCPE), Consumer Federation of America (CFA) and
• Federal consumer watchdogs have day at the ‘Beach’
  Consumer advocates, collection industry representatives, state and federal regulators and academics gathered at California State University, Long Beach on Oct. 23 to exchange information about how
• Helping servicemembers and vets protect their finances
  Consumer Action has just launched a new suite of educational materials designed to enable servicemembers and veterans to recognize and avoid scams and abusive credit
• Financial inclusion travels to Texas, East Coast
  Consumer Action, with a grant from the Rose Foundation and support from our own Money Management Project, earlier this year created a new financial education
• Good credit in Filipinotown
  The non-profit Search to Involve Pilipino Americans (SIPA) is a long-time partner in Consumer Action’s network of community-based organizations. In February, the group
• Visiting Camp Pendleton for Military Saves Week
  As February drew to a close, Consumer Action joined the Department of Defense’s Financial Readiness Campaign at the launch of its annual Military
• Young Women CAN! manage money
  In early March, a member of Consumer Action’s outreach team participated in the Young Women CAN! Event hosted by MoneyWi$e combats recidivism with education
  A 2013 study from the University of Illinois has found that offering comprehensive financial literacy skills training to individuals re-entering society from incarceration can provide them
• Educating seniors on health care fraud
  Months before the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law in 2010, seniors were bombarded with misinformation claiming that the law would slash their Medicare
• National conference motivates, engages attendees
  Consumer Action’s fourth annual National Consumer Empowerment Conference brought together community leaders and exposed them to the latest techniques for motivating adults to
• Prepping for success
  Kelly Armstrong wants to help change the lives of young inner-city men. Knowing that one in six black males between 15 and 25 are out of school,
• MoneyWi$e educates young adults and shelter residents
  Sharing the Basics, and much more Visiting Ruby’s Place, Inc., Perrott presented banking basics and tips for avoiding and repairing identity theft to
• MoneyWi$e spells financial literacy in the community
  Oak Tree Vineyards photos provided courtesy of Rod Vasarhely, photographer. MoneyWi$e is the financial literacy partnership that was founded in 2001 by Consumer Action
• California groups learn about medical records privacy
  The work was made possible by a grant from the Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment. On July 10, Consumer Action landed in Rialto, where
• Mid-Atlantic and California groups learn about electronic banking
  Co-hosted by Consumer Action and Visa Inc., the June event in Washington welcomed 54 staff and volunteers from the District of Columbia, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
• Consumer Action hops aboard Wellness Bus Tour
  The Walgreens-AARP project is dedicated to providing free prevention and early detection health services to the nation’s underserved communities via a fleet of
• Financial watchdog now ‘barks’ in Spanish
  Consumer Action’s Nelson Santiago, who attended the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s field hearing in Los Angeles in May, reports that participants
• Helping over-50 entrepreneurs stay in business
  The April event, which addressed “Starting and Financing a Business in San Francisco,” was held at the Entrepreneur Center at the SBA&rsquo
• Helping our local community partners
  Last month, Consumer Action held an in-service training on credit reporting for the staff attorneys and volunteers of the Eviction Defense Collaborative of San Francisco.
• Roundtable attendees learn and share solutions to financial illiteracy
  It was one of three that Consumer Action and Capital One hosted there in 2012, with other trainings in Virginia and New Jersey. Williams and Santiago
• CBOs gather for briefing on social media privacy
  Nearly 30 participants gathered for the four-hour event, which included presentations from Consumer Action privacy expert Michelle De Mooy and Facebook’s Krista Kobeski. De
• MoneyWi$e returns to Dallas
  The daylong training centered on timeless topics, such as establishing and rebuilding credit, managing your money, avoiding and dealing with identity theft, banking and saving.
• Consumer Action empowers educators with new tools and techniques
  The conference kicked off with tips from Dr. Billy Hensley of the National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE) on how to evaluate the efficacy of
• Consumer Action and Google collaborate on technology events
  The partners held an Oct. 10 briefing at Google’s Washington, DC offices, attended by 40 representatives of non-profit and community based organizations from the Metro
• MoneyWi$e trains Richmond non-profits in financial literacy
  Consumer Action trained 54 CBO partners at the meeting, which drew groups from in and around the state capital. The team conducted a full-day meeting that
• Cell Savvy summer in California
  As many families prepared to hit the roads and head to airports and train stations for summer vacations, Consumer Action launched its Empower U Cell
• Fair housing training for community-based organizations held in Los Angeles
  Consumer Action, in partnership with HUD, offered this year's fourth Recognizing & Fighting Housing Discrimination train-the-trainer roundtable. It was held on September 20 at the historic Biltmore
• ID Theft Prevention: A MoneyWi$e Training
  Consumer Action and Capital One hosted a free MoneyWi$e community training in Richmond, VA. About 60 nonprofit community organization staffers (including some representing the Asian
• Digital Dollars training in San Diego
  Consumer Action joined Visa in San Diego to host a half-day of training for community, government and faith-based organizations on the Digital Dollars training module.
• MoneyWi$e on Display at Personal Finance Seminar
  Dubbed “the most important financial conference for professionals in the mid-Atlantic,” all who attended the University of Maryland’s 24th Annual Personal
• OIC Hosts a MoneyWi$e Roundtable in Nation’s Capital
  The Opportunities Industrialization Center of Washington, DC (OIC/DC) partnered with Consumer Action in the nation’s capital to host a full day of
• Fair Housing training held in Chicago
  Under a FHIP grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Consumer Action’s efforts to educate community based organizations
• Financial literacy roundtable for vets in DC
  Returning from war and readjusting to civilian life is no easy task, particularly in today’s economy. Veterans and their families face unique financial challenges
• Consumer Action and HUD jumpstart Fair Housing Month
  April marks the 44th anniversary of the landmark Fair Housing Act, the federal law enacted in 1968 that prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing
• Financial education outreach to San Diego military community
  Consumer Action’s outreach staff was present and accounted for during the 2012 Military Saves Campaign events held on San Diego-area military bases in March.
• California LifeLine training in Oakland
  California LifeLine, the low-income telephone assistance program, was the focus of a Consumer Action train-the-trainer event in Oakland in March for community groups. Consumer Action
• Recognizing housing discrimination training in Oakland
  In February, the Consumer Action Outreach team trained 35 CBO staff, advocates and community leaders in Oakland on its new Fair Housing module. The Fair Housing
• Desert Schools hosts a MoneyWi$e training
  Audrey Perrott and Jamie Woo train Arizona community-based organization staff at the Desert Schools MoneyWi$e Roundtable. At the invitation of Desert Schools
• Lifeline roundtable in San Bernardino
  Consumer Action conducts outreach and education on the California LifeLine program under a partnership with AT&T. Last December, Consumer Action Community Advocates Nelson Santiago
• Consumer Action serves up financial empowerment to its network
  National Financial Empowerment Conference attendees "Credit is a muscle; if you don't use it you lose it," Ann Marie Erie advised the financial
• Consumer Action and Microsoft team up to teach Internet safety
  Nelson Santiago trains participants on the Internet Safety module. In early October, Consumer Action and Microsoft co-hosted a roundtable in Milpitas, CA as
• WirelessED Training in Oakland
  Consumer Action and AT&T hosted a WirelessED training in September for the staff of community-based organizatons (CBOs) and government agencies from Alameda, San Francisco,
• MoneyWi$e trains DC-area community based organizations
  The fundamentals of solid money management were on stage when Consumer Action and Capital One hosted free, financial empowerment training for community-based organizations in Washington,
• Empower U trainings in California
  Non-profit agencies attend the Empower U training in the San Francisco Bay Area: Front left table (L-R): Marianela Mendoza, Women's Initiative; Nai Saelee,
• MoneyWi$e travels to Texas
  Consumer Action’s Outreach and Training Team traveled to the Lone Star State in June to provide financial literacy training to community-based organizations and bankers.
• Consumer Action trains on credit cards
  Consumer Action and American Express co-hosted a Train-the-Trainer event on credit cards in Memphis, TN in May. Consumer Action developed the Credit Cards: What You
• MoneyWi$e travels to the mid-Atlantic
  Arriving just as Spring reached the East Coast, Consumer Action’s Outreach Team traveled to the Mid Atlantic in April, providing MoneyWi$e financial literacy
• MoneyWi$e empower Delaware consumers
  A key goal of the state-run First State Saves program in Delaware is to give its citizens the information they need on topics such as
• Columbus discovers MoneyWi$e
  Front-line social service advocates, social workers, educators and faith-based organizations gathered in Columbus, Ohio for two days of training in mid-May on MoneyWi$e. MoneyWi
• MoneyWi$e roundtable training in Louisiana
  Linda Williams (center) at the MoneyWi$e training she facilitated at The Louisiana State University Agricultural Center. With Williams (L-R) are Jeanette Tucker, Lauren Bartlett,
• Consumer Action and Microsoft team up to teach Internet Safety
  On Wednesday, March 24th Consumer Action (CA) and Microsoft co-hosted a newly developed MoneyWi$e travels to Phoenix
  Desert Schools Credit Union invited Consumer Action to provide a MoneyWi$e training to community agency staff at their Phoenix headquarters. Sulie Richardson, community education
• Financial literacy training in Orange County
  The Orange County Financial Stability Alliance has wasted no time in its 2010 efforts to bring financial literacy resources to Orange County families facing economic and
• Consumer Action and Chase go Inland
  On December 3, 2009, Consumer Action and Chase Bank co-hosted “Using Credit Wisely,” a roundtable event held in Southern California’s Inland Empire, the largest region of
• LA and Orange County WIC employees get MoneyWi$e
  On December 8th and 15th, Consumer Action Outreach and Training Manager Linda J. Williams presented the MoneyWise Financial Educational Program at an in-service training for
• Lifeline reaches out to Los Angeles CBOs
  On Tuesday, December 1st Consumer Action (CA) and AT&T co-hosted a Lifeline training for community-based organizations (CBOs) providing services to communities in the greater
• MoneyWi$e travels East
  Members of Consumer Action’s community outreach team traveled to the East Coast in November, providing financial literacy MoneyWi$e trainings to community-based organizations and
• MoneyWi$e goes to the Bayou State
  On October 16th, Consumer Action (CA) and Capital One co-hosted a MoneyWi$e regional meeting for community based organizations (CBOs) providing services to cities within
• Consumer Action thinks BIG
  The Blacks In Government (BIG) 31st Annual National Conference recently held in Baltimore, MD brought Joe Wynn, Legislative Advocate for the National Association of Black
• Orange County hosts MoneyWi$e financial literacy training
  Although Consumer Action’s Los Angeles office is less than an hour’s drive from Central Orange County, area freeways often turn a potentially short
• Privacy training offers valuable tips, tools to CA groups
  On September 16th, Consumer Action and its Privacy Information Project hosted a Credit File Security Freeze Roundtable in Riverside, California. The training brought together 33 staff
• Hollywood area small businesses learn about credit and business resources
  Hollywood’s Little Armenia district was the setting for California Controller John Chiang’s Small Business Tax and Opportunities Seminar on Aug. 28. Controller Chiang collaborated
• LA groups are credit wise
  On August 20th, Consumer Action and Chase co-hosted a Using Credit Wisely roundtable in Los Angeles, California. The training brought together 34 staff of community based
• MoneyWise goes to Los Angeles
  On August 5th, Consumer Action and Capital One Bank co-hosted a MoneyWi$e regional meeting in Los Angeles, California. The training brought together 61 nonprofit staff,
• Housing summit in the faith-based community
  On Aug 15, Consumer Action staff participated in a Housing Summit sponsored by San Francisco Bay Area faith-based groups. The staff manned a resource table as
• MoneyWi$e goes to the Virginia peninsula
  In an area rich in American colonial history, over 55 community-based organizations gathered to learn about financial management. The Virginia Peninsula, bounded by the York River,
• Consumer Action educates Los Angeles CBOs on housing issues
  On Wednesday, July 22nd, Consumer Action (CA) brought together community-based organizations from the greater Los Angeles area for a full day of training on foreclosure
• Consumer Action collaborates with the San Francisco Public Library
  Consumer Action Director of Outreach and Training Mikael Wagner and Associate Director of Outreach and Training Audrey Perrott participated in MoneyWi$e workshops organized by
• Maryland Saves brings MoneyWi$e to Germantown
  On June 12, 2009, the group Maryland Saves hosted a MoneyWi$e “train the trainer” roundtable in collaboration with the Montgomery County Coalition for Financial Literacy, Federal
• Privacy Rights Workshop a big hit In Seaside
  Participants came to the training with a thirst for knowledge and numerous questions about privacy and particularly identity (ID) theft, such as how it occurs,