Empowered Cities
Promoting Collaboration between Municipalities, Disability Service Providers and Financial Stability Partners
Empowered Cities is an initiative that engages municipalities and community partners across the United States to design, test and deliver innovative and scalable solutions to expand financial empowerment and financial inclusion for people with disabilities. Empowered Cities is a partnership between Citi Community Development and National Disability Institute.
Through Empowered Cities, resources, tools and trainings are being developed to build the knowledge of key stakeholders and support implementation of financial empowerment initiatives for people with disabilities.
Webinars
Visit the Empowered Cities webinar page to register for upcoming webinars and access archived webinars.
Tools
Download Empowered Cities materials, including briefs, tools and resources.
Promoting Collaboration between Municipalities, Disability Service Providers and Financial Stability Partners
Empowered Cities is an initiative that engages municipalities and community partners across the United States to design, test and deliver innovative and scalable solutions to expand financial empowerment and financial inclusion for people with disabilities. Empowered Cities is a partnership between Citi Community Development and National Disability Institute.
Through Empowered Cities, resources, tools and trainings are being developed to build the knowledge of key stakeholders and support implementation of financial empowerment initiatives for people with disabilities.
Webinars
Visit the Empowered Cities webinar page to register for upcoming webinars and access archived webinars.
Tools
Download Empowered Cities materials, including briefs, tools and resources.
Featured Resource
Quick Reference Guide: Identifying Disability Partners in Your Community
The disability community is a diverse community, so there are many organizations that support individuals with different types of disabilities. Bringing these groups together can assist in the design and implementation of financial inclusion programs for people with disabilities. This guide will help you identify disability partners in your area and provide a brief list of potential groups for engagement.
4-Step Framework
Empowered Cities follows the following four-pillar conceptual framework to support key stakeholders as they explore, establish and expand their efforts to include people with disabilities across a spectrum of financial empowerment initiatives.
I want to learn about:
1
The Needs of People with Disabilities
2
Financial Empowerment Models
3
Taking Action and Implementing
4
Measuring and Sustaining Impact
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Our Initiatives
Featured Municipality: New York
The first local program of Empowered Cities, EmpoweredNYC focuses on enabling New Yorkers with disabilities across the five boroughs to improve their financial stability. Using a three-tier approach, the NYC Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities, the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs Office of Financial Empowerment and EmpoweredNYC partners advances financial capability through broad engagement and education, tailored one-on-one financial counseling enhanced with new expertise, outreach and tools, and specialized benefits support services.
EmpoweredNYC Webinars
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EmpoweredNYC Updates
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Questions?
National Disability Institute works to improve the financial health and well-being of people across the spectrum of disability.
If you have questions or want more information about our projects, please call (202) 296-2040 or email ask@ndi-inc.org.
