Through Summer Jobs Connect, municipal partners engaged in meaningful systems change to build banking access and ensure sustainability of financial empowerment strategies. To encourage banking access and direct deposit enrollment, municipalities made changes to underlying SYEP processes like application, enrollment, and payroll.

They also used technology to support financial empowerment nudges; for example, municipalities built banking and savings behavioral prompts into their online SYEP application and enrollment processes. Partners worked with the CFE Fund and bank and credit union partners to tailor financial products and account opening processes for youth; these partnerships also facilitated data sharing for better program management.