Building the Innovation Pipeline: Workshopping Solutions for Financially Vulnerable Consumers

Categories: Income Volatility

With support from the J. P. Morgan Chase Foundation and the Ford Foundation, Commonwealth tested an interactive design workshop on March 1, 2016, convening a select group of experts to ideate around a specific consumer challenge: How might we combine savings and credit opportunities to help financially vulnerable adults manage unpredictable events? Besides providing a forum to innovate around a specific problem, this workshop represented a new model for Commonwealth to tap a reliably potent source of inspiration – its diverse network of thinkers and doers.