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FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT CENTER (FEC)

Financial Empowerment Center (FEC)

The Financial Empowerment Center (FEC) helps you gain clarity, confidence, and control over your finances. Whether you’re managing debt, trying to budget, building credit, or thinking about entrepreneurship, the FEC offers practical support you can actually use.

Through personalized financial coaching and access to trusted resources, the FEC helps individuals, families, and business owners make informed financial decisions and work toward long-term stability.

Beyond Table Talk

Beyond Table Talk is the FEC’s monthly conversation series designed to help you better understand money and real-life financial challenges.

Each 1-hour session focuses on a timely or often overlooked topic and features knowledgeable panelists who share insights on areas like entrepreneurship, credit, real estate, taxes, health, and behavioral finance. These conversations are interactive, relatable, and focused on giving you tools you can apply right away.

ABEP & Arise Community Credit Union

The FEC is an initiative of the Association for Black Economic Power (ABEP), the organization that helped launch Arise Community Credit Union, Minnesota’s first Black-led credit union.

Together, ABEP, the FEC, and Arise CCU connect financial education with access to safe, community-based banking. This means clearer pathways to saving, borrowing, and building financial stability — not just learning about money, but having places to put that knowledge into action.

Beyond Table Talk

Monthly programs, presented virtually or in-person, are aimed at specific community-based topics to guide their viewers/participants toward a better financial future.

Financial Literacy Curriculum Presentations

The Financial Empowerment Center offers a tailored program that supports individuals from middle school to retirement, covering essential financial topics like budgeting, saving, investing, and estate planning, helping participants build long-term financial stability at every life stage.

CLICK HERE to view the 10-chapter curriculum. ABEP can also create chapters upon request, with associated costs.

Task Force

The task force's goal is to coach individuals and organizations in the fundamentals of financial literacy. Through expert guidance, they aim to enhance the recipients' current financial knowledge, provide valuable tools and resources, and help build generational wealth. The task force is where the community will find one-on-one coaching.

One-on-One Coaching

One-on-one coaching offers personalized financial guidance, helping individuals set goals and take actionable steps in areas like budgeting, saving, and investing. Task force members provide ongoing support to help clients achieve long-term financial success. This service is free when you register.

HOW CAN THE FEC HELP YOU?

We help you by offering culturally rooted and trauma-informed education and coaching that promotes saving, reducing debt, and moving towards your financial independence and wealth-building. The program helps you to plan for your financial future and build skills in money management, budgeting, credit and debt solutions.

WHAT IS THE COST OF INDIVIDUAL SERVICES FROM THE FEC?

Receiving 1-on-1 coaching from the FEC is completely free for participants once you register.

HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT THE FEC

When you support the ABEP Financial Empowerment Center (FEC), you help make financial guidance accessible, practical, and available to people who need it — without cost being a barrier.

Here’s how you can make an impact:

Choose a sponsorship option that aligns with your values and allows you to directly support financial education and coaching.
Partner with us through grants to help expand access to one-on-one coaching and community-based financial programs.
Become a monthly supporter to provide consistent, reliable funding that keeps services available year-round.
Share ABEP’s work to help connect more individuals and families to trusted financial support.

Your support ensures the FEC can continue offering 1-on-1 coaching, education, and resources at no cost to participants — helping people move from uncertainty to confidence in their financial decisions.

To learn more or get involved, call 612-588-7821.

DONATE TO SUPPORT THE FEC