Outreach & Training
Consumer Action’s multilingual and multicultural community outreach managers work to empower individual consumers and community educators nationwide through free, unbiased, rights-focused consumer literacy information and training. Aware that the best way to reach vulnerable consumer populations is to work with trusted community entities, Consumer Action’s outreach staff leverages our national network of nearly 7,000 community-based organizations—the largest and most diverse of its kind—by providing information and tools to enable them to educate and advocate… Read More »
Our Events
News and photos about Consumer Action's recent activities and events.
- Webinar on creating wealth through homeownership (Aug 04, 2022)
The Homeownership: The wealth creation connection webinar features speakers Kristin Wong, a financial analyst on the mortgage team at the… - Health is Wealth promotes affordable, transparent health care (Nov 05, 2020)
Consumer Action celebrated 49 years of consumer successes during its annual convening and awards ceremony, held in late September via… - Consumer Action hosts auto insurance trainings in three states (Nov 05, 2015)
Consumer Action’s Auto Insurance module explains the importance of having adequate auto insurance and prepares drivers to determine what… - Educating seniors on health care fraud (Mar 05, 2014)
Months before the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law in 2010, seniors were bombarded with misinformation claiming… - Hundreds flock to Financial Literacy Day on Capitol Hill (May 01, 2009)
While members of the U.S. House of Representatives debated the merits of cracking down on credit card practices, many Congressional… - Outreach at California First Lady's We Connect Event (Mar 25, 2009)
No sooner had Community Outreach Manager Nelson Santiago set up Consumer Action's literature table at California First Lady Maria Shriver's… - Consumer Action and Capital One Bank host financial literacy training in Austin (Mar 03, 2009)
More than fifty organizations from Texas gathered in Austin… - Nelson Santiago speaks to group of Latino youth (Dec 30, 2008)
Consumer Action’s Nelson Santiago visited the offices of New Economics for Women (NEW) in Los Angeles in early December, where… - Sacramento non-profits learn about consumer privacy (Dec 29, 2008)
Consumer Action held a train-the-trainer session alongside the Sacramento River near the California State Capitol Building on Dec. 10. Community… - Financial literacy trainings at La Raza conference (Aug 18, 2008)
The 2008 National Council of La Raza (NCLR) conference held July 12 to 15 in San Diego provided Consumer Action… - When was your last financial check-up? (Aug 11, 2008)
When Consumer Action’s Community Outreach Manager Linda Williams asked participants in her Money Management workshop, “When was your last financial… - Outreach staff goes to Thai town (Aug 07, 2008)
Fair-goers at the Thai Community Development Center's Health and Consumer Resource Fair got physical and financial fitness check ups. A… - Black Chamber of Commerce convention (Jul 17, 2008)
The Southern California Black Chamber of Commerce (BCC), in collaboration with the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the Asian Business… - Annual foster parent event (Jun 09, 2008)
Guardians of Love, a Los Angeles-based, non-profit foster family agency, invited Consumer Action's Nelson Santiago to participate in its annual… - The silent trainer (Jun 05, 2008)
Linda Williams of the Consumer Action outreach staff gave a credit card fraud training at the Center on Deafness-Inland Empire…
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