Shelly Dunham City of Pueblo, CO Pueblo CityStart Financial Empowerment Blueprint 2020 CityStart RFP City of Pueblo, CO 1 City Hall Place O: 719-553-2613 Pueblo, CO 81003 Shelly Rae Dunham 1 City Hall Place
[email protected] Pueblo, CO 81003 O: 719-553-2613 Printed On: 19 September 2020 2020 CityStart RFP 1 Shelly Dunham City of Pueblo, CO Application Form Summary The Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund (CFE Fund), with generous support from JPMorgan Chase & Co., is requesting applications for a cohort of local governments looking to develop municipal financial empowerment strategies, with a focus on addressing the financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on residents. Grantees will receive funding of $25,000, and significant technical assistance to develop financial empowerment strategies (financial education and counseling; asset building; access to banking; and consumer protection) and produce an actionable blueprint outlining these efforts over a six-month engagement. The CFE Fund also released a new brief, Navigating From a Good Idea to Public Financial Empowerment Commitments: An Outline of the Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund’s CityStart Process, that details how past CityStart grantees leveraged the engagement; interested potential CityStart partners should read the brief for more information on the CityStart initiative. Important Dates & Informational Webinar Important dates: Application release date: July 29, 2020 RFP Informational Webinar: August 11, 2020 Proposal due date: September 14, 2020 Notification of selection: End of September 2020 Project Start: October 2020 Informational Webinar 2 p.m. EST on August 11, 2020 Please click to register for the webinar. Background The Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund’s (CFE Fund’s) mission is to leverage municipal engagement to improve the financial stability of low and moderate-income households by embedding financial empowerment strategies into local government infrastructure.