Location: Chicago, IL

The Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI) is the nation’s leading authority on financial services for underbanked consumers.  CFSI’s programs are based on the belief that addressing the needs of underbanked consumers as a market will deliver broad, long-term change throughout the financial services landscape by creating mutual benefit for both the underbanked and the companies serving them.  Therefore, CFSI works with leaders and innovators in the business, government and nonprofit sectors to transform the financial services landscape with programs focused on informing, connecting and investing – gathering enhanced intelligence, brokering and supporting productive industry relationships and fostering best-in-class products and strategies.  CFSI seeks to improve the quality and quantity of financial products and services, better shape them to the needs and desires of underbanked customers, and expand effective savings and asset acquisition opportunities. The organization spurs innovation to bridge the gaps that remain in creating a path to prosperity for underbanked consumers by:

• Developing market intelligence;
• Assessing existing products, services and strategies;
• Providing strategic advice;
• Promoting and facilitating marketplace partnerships;
• Influencing public policy;
• Investing in promising innovations and encouraging others to do so as well

Founded in 2004, CFSI has experienced dramatic growth in the last two years and is poised for further growth in 2012. The organization currently has a staff of 25 with offices in Chicago, New York and Washington, DC.  CFSI plans to build a more robust strategy, campaign and infrastructure to identify and develop relationships with the partners and supporters of the future and maintain relationships with our current stakeholders. CFSI is a fast-paced, entrepreneurial and highly collaborative environment. We are looking for people who share our values of innovation, passion, excellence, impact and directness. For more on CFSI, go to http://www.cfsinnovation.com

Location: Washington, DC

Free the Slaves (FTS) knows that slavery flourishes when people cannot meet their basic needs, and lack economic opportunities, social protections, and knowledge about or ability to exercise their rights. We know that a holistic approach is required to eradicate slavery, and we believe it is possible to end slavery in our lifetime. To that end, FTS works with grassroots organizations to free people from slavery and help them rebuild their lives. We record and share survivors’ stories so people in power can see slavery and be inspired to work for freedom. We enlist businesses to clean slavery out of their product chains and empower consumers to stop buying into slavery. We work with governments to implement effective anti-slavery laws and hold them to their commitments, and we research what works and what doesn’t so that governments use resources effectively to end slavery.

To learn more about Free the Slaves, please visit http://www.freetheslaves.net