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.
- 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… - Louisiana agencies learn about MoneyWi$e (May 30, 2008)
On a mission to educate consumers about good money management, Consumer Action and Capital One headed to Louisiana to share… - Cal-Neva Conference (Apr 27, 2008)
Jamie Woo and Audrey Perrott of the Consumer Action outreach staff attended the Cal-Neva Conference at the Sir Francis Drake… - National Ready to lead trainings (Apr 23, 2008)
Consumer Action partnered with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI), the nation’s… - Wealth strategies for farm workers (Apr 23, 2008)
Consumer Action’s Associate for National Priorities, Sol Carbonell, presented at the National Farmworker Conference in… - Training Los Angeles County social workers (Apr 16, 2008)
Linda Williams of Consumer Action conducted a training on April 16 for 175 Los Angeles County Social Workers on topics… - Open House on women's concerns (Apr 08, 2008)
On April 8, Linda Williams of Consumer Action's outreach team attended an open house sponsored by Riverside County Commission for… - MoneyWi$e at the NCRC conference (Mar 27, 2008)
Consumer Action’s Sol Carbonell, Associate for National Priorities, traveled to Washington, DC recently to present at the
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