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On Friday, October 2nd, the Mission Asset Fund | Fondo Popular de la Misión hosted a community discussion with SF Supervisor David Campos.

I, along with Jose Quinonez, MAF's Executive Director, informed close to 30 community leaders about the need to promote culturally relevant financial education and push banks to offer responsible and appropriate financial products that reflect Latinas/os actual lives. We presented the findings and recommendations from the Immigrant Financial Integration Initiative study.

Supervisor Campos address the shock that the community is still suffering from the three homicides that recently took place in the Mission. The meeting also focused on possible solutions for reducing violence and implementing a community policing program that would be accountable to the community.

The IME - Instituto de los Mexicanos en el Exterior (The Institute for Mexicans Abroad) regularly hosts Jornadas Informativas (Informative Conferences) with invited community leaders from Mexico, the United States and Canada. On behalf of MAF, I attended the 66th Jornada Informativa on Financial Education from April 21st to April 23rd in Mexico City. The Jornada is structured around an agenda in which participants exchange ideas, projects and programs for Mexican communities abroad.

We were recently featured in an article by Matt Herrick from the U.S. Department of State on how alternative financial services attract immigrants.


You can read the full article here.