Empowering Women. Enhancing Financial Services.
1 in 4 women are victims of domestic violence. 99% also suffer from financial abuse. With FI SAFE, your credit union can help cut those strings of control, building financial freedom. And that’s just the beginning.
The Problem
1 in 3 women have experienced gender-based violence.
In abusive relationships, control is often financial. Even when survivors escape, they encounter job loss, credit damage, and ongoing financial challenges, making recovery seem impossible. Sadly, your community (and even your credit union) has far too many people in this situation.
FI SAFE aligns technology and empathy (we call it “tempathy”) to break this cycle while delivering personal and financial freedom.
Breaking Chains of Control
Abuse is rooted in control. FI SAFE breaks those chains. It begins by connecting your credit union with victims when they reach out to their local DVRC?. After addressing the immediate threat of violence, your trained staff can begin the work of financial empowerment.
FI SAFE helps your credit union separate the phone, checking/savings accounts, credit cards, and begin rebuilding credit scores…all things which can prevent survivors from retaining employment or even finding a place to live.
Become A CU "SafePod"
Provide a hand up, not a hand out. We help you embrace your credit union “superpowers”, including CDFI/Low Income Designation funding, ITIN lending, low/no credit account opening, combined with empowering technologies to pave a path to financial wellness and lifelong loyalty.
We train your team to empathize, empower, and equip them with the right tools for your member’s financial well-being.
The Opportunity
FI SAFE is dedicated to empowering women, but it doesn’t end there. The partners involved also drive revenues, member satisfaction, and loyalty gains within your institution.
Address the front line of abuse with the SafeYou mobile app. Join a community of women for support, resources, and in-the-moment safety features.
Enable members to support their favorite causes with FiCrowd.
Become the name behind your member’s new favorite cell phone network with Members Mobile. Answer the call with an unmatched PFI-building, revenue producing, product.
Serve members at any hour, while enhancing your staff relationship-building efforts, with Agent IQ.
FI SAFE helps your credit union empower financial futures for all your members.
How Your Financial Institution Can Participate
Become a SafePod
FI SAFE Ecosystem Benefits
The core of a FI SAFE relationship. Your credit union aligns with local DVRCs and we train your team to provide financial guidance and services to DV survivors.
Build member loyalty, revenues, and deposits with “top of phone” benefits that offer personalized data, timely communication, and unmatched retention.
Two paths, intersecting along the way, to improved loyalty, community support, and long-term growth:
Become a SafePod to enhance your DV survivor empowerment journey.
Embrace the FI SAFE Ecosystem with services to benefit all your members.
Contact Us
FI SAFE is an initiative which cares. About empowering women, addressing the challenges facing credit unions of all sizes, and bringing private, yet seamless, ways to engage and delight members.
Across it all, we aim to raise the status of credit unions and providers through ensuring the stories you hear every day get told. People want to bank and work with organizations which share their values, but, let’s face it, the credit union movement isn’t the best at getting our story out.
With FI SAFE at your credit union, we’ll empower your team to maximize their positive impact on the local community, and work to get those stories heard by your future members.
Let’s discuss FI SAFE for your credit union.