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Designing Financial Solutions for Elder Caregivers
Five Takeaways from Social Capital Markets Conference 2020
Staff members from Commonwealth attended the virtual Social Capital Markets (SOCAP) conference dedicated to increasing the flow of capital toward social good. As we have noted in previous blogs, interest in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and evidence of its…
Commonwealth and MassChallenge FinTech
Cross-sector collaboration and innovation are critical to addressing the widespread, pervasive challenge of financial insecurity. Over the last year, Commonwealth has been proud to partner with MassChallenge FinTech (MCFT), a Boston-based program that facilitates outcomes-driven partnerships between startups and enterprises…
Autosave for Emergencies Webinar
Even before the pandemic, we knew that close to half of Americans would have trouble finding $400 to cover a financial crisis. For many, the pandemic has worsened their situation. Forward-thinking employers are now in a unique position to help…
Designed for Dynamic Saving
The “cycle of savings” is the ongoing act of building, using, and replenishing savings that strengthens financial resiliency and allows families to invest in their financial security. This insight, highlighted in the Aspen Institute Financial Security Program’s new report, The…
Staying Afloat
Commonwealth’s Financial Resilience Project: COVID Stories, Rapid Insights closely tracks the financial lives of low- and moderate-income households over the course of several months. Our project follows 56 households from 24 states across the United States to gain rapid insights…
Saving Through a Crisis (2 of 2)
Commonwealth’s “Saving Through a Crisis” series shares our latest research, in partnership with the Defined Contribution Institutional Investment Association’s Retirement Research Center, on how low- to moderate-income plan participants are handling their retirement savings during the pandemic. Americans are now…
Financial Resiliency Strategies Webinar
COVID-19 has been a rollercoaster for many of us. The current crisis is a simultaneous assault on so many aspects of our lives – our health, how we work, how children go to school, how we recognize long standing racial…
New Research: Emergency Savings
Commonwealth’s Financial Resilience Project: COVID Stories, Rapid Insights closely tracks the financial lives of low- and moderate-income households over the course of several months. Our project follows 56 households from 24 states across the United States to gain rapid insights…
Corporate America, Your Country Needs You
Congress left town last week, unable to agree on further pandemic relief. News coverage focuses on the political drama of legislating, but for tens of millions of Americans the issue is not drama or politics, it’s survival. Their financial house…
Leveraging Retirement Platforms for Emergency Savings
As the COVID-19 recession pushes more and more Americans to the limits of their financial resources, retirement savings—usually considered an untouchable pool of funds—are increasingly functioning as emergency cash. With more Americans losing their jobs—and millions more losing supplemental unemployment…