Outreach & Training
Consumer Action’s multilingual and multicultural Community Outreach Managers counsel consumers, offer technical advice, conduct train-the-trainer workshops and presentations at community events and national conferences and provide expert analysis and commentary to English, Spanish and Chinese media on a variety of consumer issues. 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 more than 8,000 community-based organizations… Read More »
Our Events
News and photos about Consumer Action's recent activities and events.
- Consumer Action and Capital One Bank host financial literacy training in Austin (Mar 03, 2009)
More than fifty organizations from Texas gathered in Austin to… - Year of the Ox Chinese New Year Celebration (Feb 23, 2009)
Sponsor: California State University, Sacramento (CSUS) Outreach team members Audrey Perrott and Jamie Woo attended the Year of the Ox… - 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… - Atlanta CBOs join fight against fraud (Dec 30, 2008)
Phishing, pharming, and triangulation. These were among the scams that Atlanta-area community groups learned about during Consumer Action’s anti-fraud train-the-trainer… - 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… - Moneywi$e helps teach families how to survive economic tsunami (Nov 14, 2008)
Over 38 participants from a diverse group of community based organizations in Washington D.C. joined 25 members of Opportunities Industrialization… - High school students learn money management tips (Sep 25, 2008)
When Consumer Action’s Sol Carbonell asked 150 high school seniors from DC and Maryland if they liked spending money, every… - Privacy training in San Diego (Aug 26, 2008)
On Wednesday, Aug. 20, San Diego community-based organizations welcomed the Consumer Action training team for a training… - 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… - Credit Card Fraud training a hit (Jun 16, 2008)
Consumer Action’s team held a pilot pre-training session on the Credit Card Fraud module, which… - 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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