Dallas Financial Empowerment Centers

Project Description: The City of Dallas Office of Community Care and Empowerment (OCCE) is seeking to establish one-year agreements with non-profit agencies to operate as a Dallas Financial Empowerment Center (FEC) model hub site where professional one-on-one financial counseling services and financial empowerment programming is provided. The purpose of the FEC program is to facilitate sustained household financial stability and advance economic mobility for very low-to-moderate income clients by providing free professional one-on-one financial counseling (services) and programming to residents. FEC program providers should seek to integrate program services into existing social service delivery models through partnerships and collaborations. Thus, enabling Dallas residents to access a variety of benefits, services and resources designed to advance economic mobility. FEC services should be provided to residents of Dallas at all income levels and in locations that have persistent high rates of poverty, high rates of renters and/or high levels of low- and moderate-income residents, City of Dallas employees and Formerly Incarcerated individuals, other than individuals who are incarcerated in a Federal correctional facility. Proposers should also ensure service delivery will reach populations identified in the “Drivers of Poverty” briefing (Attachment G) or other vulnerable populations.