Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) Houston and Benefit Kitchen, in collaboration with Houston-based civic technology nonprofit Connective, will study how best to embed Benefit Kitchen’s API-based benefits screener into LISC Houston’s Financial Opportunity Center coaching model and software, bridging the benefits knowledge gap for coaching staff and giving clients standardized, up-to-date benefits screening information.

The Flagstone Initiative and MoCaFi will collaborate on a Community Emergency Fund to protect low-income renters in Oklahoma City. The project will leverage the Flagstone Initiative’s access to aggregate data collected by its workforce housing partners and from one-on-one interviews and surveys with renters, and it will be deployed through MoCaFi’s on-demand fund distribution platform.

Nebraska Early Childhood Collaborative and Pie for Providers will partner to maximize Nebraska child care providers’ income through subsidy funding and automate calculations for the state’s billing process, improving providers’ financial health and enabling the opening of new government-funded child care spots for Nebraska families.

Justine PETERSEN Housing and Reinvestment Corporation and LaunchCode are designing credit and entrepreneurship programs to address the financial health of incarcerated and re-entering citizens in Missouri.

Justice Accountability Center (JAC) of Louisiana and DaisyDebt are teaming up to bring DaisyDebt’s debt dispute technology to formerly incarcerated individuals, including those in JAC’s Reentry Legal Clinics.

Anti-Recidivism Coalition (ARC) and Stretch Finance will connect ARC’s formerly incarcerated and returning citizen members with free checking accounts, debit cards, and tailored employment alerts

IRC Center for Economic Opportunity and finEQUITY plan to help formerly incarcerated residents establish or improve their credit through small-dollar loans, smoothing the journey to critical needs like housing and employment.

Urban League of Essex County and MoCaFi will offer a fully-featured mobile banking solution to assist returning citizen clients and their families, alongside Urban League of Essex County’s wraparound services.

Canary integrated SpringFour's financial health resources into Grant Circle, which provides cash grants to people experiencing financial hardship.

Change Machine connected four North Carolina HBCUs with promising fintech products and engaged students in product testing and validation.

Compass partnered with NxtStep to build an enrollment, orientation, and financial coaching platform for participants in the federal Family Self-Sufficiency program.

Four of the Directors’ Council’s member nonprofits integrated Leap Fund’s public benefits calculator program into their service delivery.

fINEQUITY paired its educational modules with Hebrew Free Loan Society’s interest-free loan to help people who have experienced incarceration.

Neighborhood Trust provided its TrustPlus live financial coaching as an added feature for A.M. Money’s student loan borrowers.

SaverLife and Steady leveraged prize-linked savings to improve the income and savings prospects of their members.

GreenPath partnered with EarnUp to create the Simple Payment Plan, an automated installment debt repayment service that provides ongoing financial coaching and guidance.

Consumer Action recruited four of its network affiliates to offer fintech products to clients. Fintech products distributed across the affiliates included Digit, SaverLife, and Self.

SaverLife (previously EARN) partnered with LendUp to test if providing points towards the customer's journey on the LendUp Ladder impacted their likelihood of enrolling and saving.

Onward worked with Synapse to automate the process for workers to open savings accounts and access emergency loan products within the Onward app.

National Urban League (NUL) worked with its affiliate organizations to test a range of fintech tools with clients, gather feedback, and share it with the broader NUL network.

Credit Builders Alliance offered lenders in its network access to credit reports from Nova Credit, allowing lenders to underwrite newcomers by obtaining credit histories from their countries of origin.

Neighborhood Trust Financial Partners integrated Self’s credit-building product into its Trusted Advisor platform, enabling counselors to enroll interested clients seamlessly.

UnidosUS partnered with Oportun to provide financial coaching to its customers and employees.

Accion referred applicants who had previously been denied credit because of high debt levels to LendStreet with the goal of increasing their future eligibility for a loan.