Resources by Population

MilitarySaves.org
This website includes a host of resources for serving and motivating military populations, plus specialized information on military retirement savings and other issues. Brought to you by the nonprofit Consumer Federation of America’s America Saves Program, in partnership with the Department of Defense’s Financial Readiness Campaign, it has everything you need to help military families save money, reduce debt, and build wealth.

Military OneSource
This comprehensive website is designed to support all aspects of military life. Here you’ll find financial information but also resources on issues such as deployment, reunion, relationships, grief, spouse employment and education, parenting and childhood, and much more.

NEFE Workshop Kit: Money & Mobility For Military Personnel and Families
This NEFE kit has a range of resources that cover military-specific financial issues with a focus on achieving economic stability while planning for deployment.

Accomplishing Financial Mission Workbook
This workbook, funded by a grant from FFP, includes key financial information for service members plus a range of worksheets and other tools.

CFPB: Your Money, Your Goals Military Guide
This guide provides resources to help military families overcome the unique financial challenges they face and improve their financial well-being.

Family Reach Financial Handbook
This handbook, developed by Family Reach, a national nonprofit dedicated to alleviating the financial burden of cancer, will help patients and caregivers learn about potential financial challenges, how to identify roadblocks and where and how to seek financial support.

Prepared by Triage Cancer and the Samfund, this toolkit for navigating finances after a cancer diagnosis will guide you through some key topics such as disability insurance, estate planning, financial assistance resources, and life insurance. This site will present a series of questions that lead users to the most relevant information and resources.

CancerCare’s “A Helping Hand: The Resource Guide for People with Cancer (2017 Financial Edition)”
This guide was created to help people with cancer, and their loved ones, cope with the costs of cancer. It will help you understand the issues and options related to the financial burden of cancer, plus patients’ rights and sources of help.

Bankrate.com’s “Cancer costs: How to manage housing expenses during treatment”
This guide takes a comprehensive look at the many expenses homeowners might face during their cancer treatment. The report suggests ways for families to assess their current financial situation, manage impending housing costs, and find external assistance wherever possible.

Cancer.org
This section of the American Cancer Society website highlights issues cancer patients often face in paying for their care and notes resources that may be available to help.

NEFE Workshop Kit: Addiction
This workshop kit helps people with addictions gain control of their finances and create a more stable future.

NPR’s “Getting Out Of Medical Debt Can Feel Impossible. Here’s How To Do It.”
This article describes 7 practical steps that individuals can take to get their medical bills reduced.

NEFE Workshop Kit: Rebuilding Financially After Domestic Violence — Gaining Financial Self-Sufficiency
This NEFE kit contains tools and resources to help you guide survivors of domestic violence on a path toward financial self-sufficiency and independence from their abusers.

Bradley Angle’s Making Asset Building Accessible to Survivors of Domestic Violence Toolkit
Prepared with support from FFP by a leading domestic violence survivor service organization, this kit provides information, best practices and tips on how to help domestic violence survivors build assets.

Kentucky Coalition Against Domestic Violence Toolkit
With support from FFP, the Kentucky Coalition Against Domestic Violence (KCADV) prepared this toolkit as resource for organizations interested in learning more about financial capability work with survivors of domestic violence.

Aunt Bertha
This website helps users search for free or reduced cost services available in their local areas like medical care, food, job training, and more.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
FDIC’s Money Smart curriculum, available in multiple languages, is designed to help low- and moderate-income individuals learn the basics of personal finance. The curriculum for adults includes 11 modules. Each module has a comprehensive, fully scripted guide for instructors, PowerPoint Presentation and handouts for participants. This resource can be utilized to develop a program at a nonprofit aimed at educating and empowering underserved populations via presentations bundled with one-on-one advice from CFP® professionals.

NEFE Workshop Kit: Income, Savings and Assets: Achieving Financial Stability for the Future
This workshop kit has what you need to teach lower-income audiences practical strategies to increase income, build savings, and gain assets.

NEFE Workshop Kit: Dealing with Debt for Adults: How to Manage Debt
This kit will help you teach adults to recognize the signs of debt distress, create a plan to take control of debt repayments and spending, learn about their FICO score, and understand why it’s best to avoid risky solutions such as auto title, payday and tax refund anticipation loans.

The College Affordability Guide
Provides students with practical advice for reducing costs on necessary expenses (housing, healthcare, food, etc.), including how to use common support programs. It’s a good starting point for students interested in reducing debt and taking control of their finances.

BigFuture
Provides information about finding a good-fit college, getting in and paying for it – including a college cost calculator – as well as exploring careers and creating a step-by-step road map to college as early as the 8th grade.

College Scorecard
The U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard helps students find the college that’s the best fit. Provides data on college costs, financial aid, graduation rates, and post-college earnings.

Finding, Choosing and Repaying Financial Aid and Student Loans
Helps current and prospective students identify loans and compare financial aid offers. For students who already have student loans, it provides practical information on a number of ways to repay debt.

The financial impact of a natural disaster can be debilitating. While floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes and tsunamis are unavoidable, there are a range of good resources that can help Americans both prepare for and recover from disasters.

American Red Cross
The American Red Cross website has a range of helpful information, including pre-and post-disaster resources providing tips on financial issues.

FEMA’s Are You Ready? An In-depth Guide to Citizen Preparedness
This lengthy guide acts as both a reference source and a step-by-step manual, helping citizens prepare for all types of hazards.

Disaster Recovery: A Guide to Financial Issues
This comprehensive, 32-page booklet can help people affected by disasters respond to the financial impact and get back on their feet more quickly.

United Policyholders Toolkit
With support from FFP, United Policyholders created this toolkit for will help Financial Planning Association chapters in disaster-impacted areas partner with United Policyholders to provide pro bono financial planning assistance and help victims make the best financial decisions for their individual situation.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
These resources can help those who work with older adults and/or their caregivers in areas such as later-life financial security, protecting against fraud, managing a family member’s money and more.

CFPB has also developed an Elder Fraud Prevention and Response Networks Development Guide to help communities build and enhance local networks in the fight against elder financial exploitation and fraud.

AARP
Supports the financial security of adults aged 50+ with free tools and resources related to age discrimination, job search, retirement and savings, social security, and more. The AARP Foundation also designed 50+ SM, a 3-part program to help older adults make and keep smart money habits.  The program, which includes a number of downloadable worksheets and workshop guides, covers budgeting and goal setting, taking charge of credit and debt, and developing a savings plan and protecting your assets.