Location: New York, NY

CWCID is a nonprofit financial services organization dedicated to economic opportunity for the working poor.  To that end, we have developed and honed a unique model which engages low-wage workers in their communities, provides tailored financial advisory services, and enrolls them in a “Gateway Banking” package as the starting point to financial security.

Today we are a leader in our field. We have achieved a citywide presence in New York, serving 7,000 people annually.  We are a major partner for the City’s Financial Empowerment Centers Initiative, and are supported by Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, The Robin Hood Foundation, and Single Stop USA among many others. 

We have exciting plans to scale our organization by adapting our model to the workplace.  We will position ourselves as a sustainable nonprofit “business to business” service – The Employer Solution—that leverages payroll and other employer systems to help low-wage workers achieve financial health. 

Our programmatic growth will be accompanied by a name change and a rebranding process resulting in new visual identity and messaging this year.  The launch of this brand will coincide with the move into a new 7,500 square foot headquarters, the “Getting Ahead Center”, in early 2012.