Since founding the Bank On movement in 2006, the San Francisco Office of Financial Empowerment (OFE) has found persistent disparities in banking access due to structural flaws in the financial system. This brief outlines four major systemic barriers to banking -- distrust of mainstream financial institutions, ChexSystems records, debt in collections and asset limits -- as well as opportunities to remove these barriers and increase banking access. Read more here.

Coming fresh off the press the 2020 Kindergarten to College Activity Reports and Welcome Kits are coming to your mailbox!

Join Kindergarten to College (K2C) every Thursday on their *NEW* office hours in either English or Español!! For more information on their office hours click here.

Join us and enter our Kindergarten to College (K2C) 9th-10th grade short video contest! This year’s theme will be, “I am the future”. For more details click here.

Join us and enter our annual Kindergarten to College (K2C) 6th-8th grade poetry contest for all SFUSD students! This year’s theme will be, “I am the future”. Learn more here!

Join us for our annual 5th grade Kindergarten to College (K2C) art contest! This year’s theme will be, “I am the future”. Find out more details here!

A federal judge in Scholl v. Mnuchin, ordered the IRS to give people who are or were incarcerated their stimulus checks, also known as Economic Impact Payments. For more resources and to learn more click here.

You can now book an appointment with Smart Money Coaching online! Get the help you deserve now!

We are partnering with SFUSD Counselor Department with a Virtual College Tour Contest! Take a virtual college tour and get entered to WIN a $300 SCHOLARSHIP!!! Click here to learn more.

View our new $20 Match Incentive as well as our other incentives for the 2020 – 2021 school year here!

Do you have questions about K2C? Join us weekly at our office hours and have your questions answered in real time! Click here for more info!

A joint report done with the California Reinvestment Coalition (CRC). As COVID-19 continues to ravage the health and economic security of millions of Americans, it is critically important to evaluate the relief efforts offered by financial institutions. And at this time, when our nation is confronted with the reality of its historic and systemic racism, it is crucial that we evaluate such relief efforts with a racial equity lens.