San Francisco’s Guaranteed Income Advisory Group was created to advise the Board of Supervisors, the Mayor, and appropriate City departments on various aspects of guaranteed income. The recommendations in this report examine how to move guaranteed income from pilots to policy in San Francisco, while maintaining and strengthening the City’s support for pilot development and implementation.

We are currently soliciting for a financial institution partner for the Kindergarten to College program and our request for proposals is now available. All questions must be submitted to sf.ofe@sfgov.org by April 13th. Proposals are due on May 18th.

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This brief offers lessons learned about how to protect recipient benefits, particularly in California, through the lens of the Abundant Birth Project (ABP), a pilot program aimed at reducing birth health disparities and improving birth outcomes for Black and Pacific Islander pregnant women in San Francisco by providing $1,000 per month for six months during pregnancy and six months post-partum.

Listen to our discussion on the mysterious and often problematic, ChexSystems that leaves so many people vulnerable from achieving financial mobility.

Missed a rent payment? San Francisco’s commercial eviction moratorium will end Sept. 30, 2021. Learn more about eviction protections and resources available to help you understand your lease and how to negotiate with your landlord/tenant. Click here to learn more.

Read five ways to create meaningful and life-changing financial outcomes for the community with this report from Smart Money Coaching. Read more here.

In this report we tackle the unfair, unequal and opaque consumer banking systems that have blacklisted so many low-income consumers, immigrants, and in particular Black consumers from the financial mainstream.

Today Governor Newsom proposed an investment of more than $2 billion in a statewide college savings account modeled after San Francisco’s Kindergarten to College Program (K2C).

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.

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