The Community Empowerment Fund offers savings opportunities,
micro-loans, financial education, and assertive support to individuals
 who are underemployed and unemployed.

The opportunities for employment, self-employment, and greater housing
that CEF advances motivate participants to build personal assets, gain higher income,
engage in a healthy community, and sustain transitions out of poverty.

CEF is a student-run non-profit organization
based at the UNC Campus Y in Chapel Hill, NC.
with expanding outreach to Durham, NC.

Programs


CEF works locally to:

  • — empower individuals through access to capital and financial resources
  • — create new opportunities for individuals to lift themselves out of poverty
  • — connect borrowers to supportive services
  • — foster a healthy and inclusive community of borrowers and savers
  • — strengthen our community’s local economy
  • — invest in people and their potential

Give to CEF

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