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Financial Opportunity Center® Resources
Financial Opportunity Center® Resources

Reports & Publications

 LISC is dedicated to helping the coaches, managers, and staff running financial and career services programs so they can best serve community members. Below you will find a collection of resources and publications highlighting emerging strategies, performance data, and insights you can use to improve your program's services.  

Empowered to Thrive: The Measurable Impact of Coaching

Financial Opportunity Center® data analysis demonstrates that intensive financial or career coaching—defined as five or more sessions with program coaches—leads to meaningful, measurable improvements in participants’ financial and employment outcomes. Explore our findings on the impact of our program model and hear strategies to help increase client retention in similar programs.

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Digital Skilling: Paving a Path to a Prosperous Future
This report details the effectiveness of strategies piloted by LISC’s Financial Opportunity Center® and Bridges to Career Opportunities programs in equipping today’s workforce with digital skills in order to respond to the rapid digitalization of the labor market.
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Building Green Career Pathways for Untapped Talent: Lessons Learned to Integrate Green Skills into Workforce Development Training

This guide is designed to assist workforce development organizations in creating new or improving existing green job training programs from conception to developing community member retention strategies and beyond. Best practices and case studies highlighted are from organizations in four states.

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Empowered to Thrive: The Measurable Impact of Coaching

Financial Opportunity Center® data analysis demonstrates that intensive financial or career coaching—defined as five or more sessions with program coaches—leads to meaningful, measurable improvements in participants’ financial and employment outcomes. Explore our findings on the impact of our program model and hear strategies to help increase client retention in similar programs.

Find out more
Digital Skilling: Paving a Path to a Prosperous Future
This report details the effectiveness of strategies piloted by LISC’s Financial Opportunity Center® and Bridges to Career Opportunities programs in equipping today’s workforce with digital skills in order to respond to the rapid digitalization of the labor market.
Find out more
Building Green Career Pathways for Untapped Talent: Lessons Learned to Integrate Green Skills into Workforce Development Training

This guide is designed to assist workforce development organizations in creating new or improving existing green job training programs from conception to developing community member retention strategies and beyond. Best practices and case studies highlighted are from organizations in four states.

Find out more