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 Network
Members of our national network of more than 6,500 community-based organization staff members share their success stories and innovative strategies. Learn how other agencies are using Consumer Action’s free multilingual educational materials to empower consumers and make a difference in their communities.
- Out and About: Debt and the racial wealth gap (Jul 07, 2022)
By Audrey Perrott In June, this writer attended a presentation on Debt: When It Helps, When It Hurts, What It… - PG&E funds Consumer Action to address energy poverty (Jun 05, 2022)
By Audrey Perrott Consumer Action was among a dozen or so nonprofits selected to receive a grant from Pacific Gas… - Conference reveals how discrimination still harms communities of color (May 03, 2019)
Consumer Action was proud to co-sponsor the Understanding Segregation: Tools to Advance Access and Opportunity conference hosted by Fair Housing… - Conference challenges advocates to wage war against discrimination (Jun 05, 2018)
Reflecting our commitment to housing education and advocacy, Consumer Action was a sponsor of the April 25th Fair Housing Conference… - How one housing agency uses our free resources to help its clients (Sep 05, 2017)
Habitat for Humanity of the Mississippi Gulf Coast (HFHMGC), in Gulfport, Mississippi, builds and sells affordable housing, rehabilitates existing housing… - Housing Rights Summit attendees honor National Fair Housing Month (Jun 05, 2017)
In honor of the anniversary of the passage of the Fair Housing Act, and in remembrance of the assassination of… - Fannie Mae’s UNfair housing (Jan 05, 2017)
The National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) and 20 civil rights groups (including four Consumer Action community partners) filed a federal… - Boning up on fair housing issues (Mar 05, 2015)
Housing was on the agenda for Consumer Action’s Audrey Perrott in January, when our San Francisco-based Associate Director of…
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