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Financial Health

How to spot imposter scams

These sophisticated scams start with a phone call, email, or text that appears to come from a trusted source, so it’s important to know who you’re really talking to. Margarita Alvarez, head of Wells Fargo Risk Payment Programs, shares these fraud-fighting tips.


Environment

A solar leasing program offers a bright future for renewable energy

With help from philanthropic partners like Wells Fargo, Capital Good Fund’s solar leasing program helps lower-income residents and nonprofit organizations save on their utility bills.


Diversity & Inclusion

Advancing neurodiversity in the workforce

Wells Fargo and UConn’s Center for Neurodiversity & Employment Innovation will provide workshops to corporate America on how to design and build a neurodiversity employment initiative.


Financial Health

9 ways to pay less taxes, now and throughout the year

Credits, deductions, and even saving and giving can help you reduce your taxable income before taxes are due and maximize your take-home pay.


Financial Health

Expert tips and financial planning for securing and repaying student loans

Michael Liersch, head of Advice & Planning, shares tips for college students and their parents.


Small Business

Supporting the wave of new Black women entrepreneurs

More and more Black women have become entrepreneurs in recent years. Milestone Circles is on track to help thousands reach their business goals in a post-pandemic economy.


Environment

This invention could reduce the carbon footprint of old buildings without displacing residents

Two startups that received Wells Fargo Foundation support are fostering new technology with immense potential to modernize buildings and improve people’s lives.


Financial Health

Real career advice from real financial advisors

From personal finance to networking to philanthropy, here are five tips to help you get ahead at work and in life.


Housing

These 3D-printed homes could be the future of affordable housing — for $99,000 or less

Homebuilding innovator ICON is laying the groundwork for affordable, 3D-printed homes in Community First! Village with support from Wells Fargo.


Financial Health

How the 100 Black Men of America empowers youths by investing in their future

High school students learn the keys to investing and building wealth during the Junior Investment Club, with the support of mentors from the 100 Black Men of America.


Financial Health

How being unbanked or underbanked could cost you $360,000 over a lifetime

In Gallup, New Mexico, a financial coach is helping the Navajo Nation and other residents stabilize their finances, build wealth, and avoid high-cost banking alternatives.


Financial Health

Your 2024 monthly money planner

Whether you’re coming across this page on New Year’s Day or during the holidays or anytime in between, you’ll find small steps to do each month — or any time — so you’ll know how to save money and reach your goals.


Diversity & Inclusion

‘Coming to work as myself’

Alex Tricarico, senior writer for wello (Wells Fargo's Creative Agency) talks about coming out as transgender at Wells Fargo — and how work became their unlikely sanctuary.


Small Business

Betting on burgers: How a mother and her daughters built a McDonald’s franchise empire

A single loan from Wells Fargo four decades ago helped a family build a thriving portfolio of 21 McDonald’s restaurants in South Los Angeles.


Innovation

Hacking for good: Meet the ethical hackers whose job it is to test Wells Fargo’s cybersecurity defenses

Sometimes more hackers — not fewer — are needed to combat today’s cyber threats. Wells Fargo’s Offensive Security Research Team simulates real cyberattacks to better protect customer money and information.

Viewpoints features thoughts and perspectives from leaders of community-driven organizations.

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"We should all feel empowered to safely intervene in situations of harassment," writes Emily May, president, co-founder, and lead executive officer of Right to Be.

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"Climate change is a racial justice issue," writes Emi Wang, associate director of capacity building for The Greenlining Institute.

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Innovation

How Wells Fargo builds responsible artificial intelligence

AI should enhance how you bank, not complicate it. Take a look inside the process of how Wells Fargo engineers are making the next AI tools based on your needs.


Small Business

Women-owned businesses are driving economic growth. Here’s what entrepreneurs should know.

A new landscape for women-owned businesses has begun to appear over the past few years. They’re forming, increasing revenue, and employing more people faster than men-owned businesses, according to a Wells Fargo report. What’s changed?


Financial Health

7 smart things to do with your summer job and side hustle money

It’s your money. You earned it. Here’s how to spend it.


Small Business

4 things to do before you start a company

Have you considered starting your own business? Many dream of being their own boss, but the process can be daunting. Here is a breakdown of what you should do before you create a company.


Small Business

How Pioneer Linens survived 111 years — and counting

For well over a century, Pioneer Linens — a longtime Wells Fargo customer — has evolved alongside its Palm Beach community. The secret to its success? A faithful family with a long legacy of caring about their customers.


Small Business

Ignite your entrepreneurial spirit: Learn from the Chandler brothers' success at Seven Peaks Fence and Barn

A love of animals inspired Matt, Trevor, and Jeff Chandler to start Seven Peaks Fence and Barn, a fencing business that helps fellow animal lovers keep their livestock.

Financial Health

  • 6 smart money tips for college-bound students
  • How to avoid holiday scams this shopping season
  • 9 ways to pay less taxes, now and throughout the year
  • 3 things to know to protect yourself from cybercrime
  • Expert tips and financial planning for securing and repaying student loans

Housing

  • A decade of giving back: Wells Fargo’s $60 million gift of 400 homes to veterans
  • Developer adds luxury to D.C.’s affordable housing
  • Inside an innovative response to California’s homelessness crisis
  • Initiative aims to create 40,000 new homeowners by 2025

Innovation

  • Medical transportation company reduces barriers to health care – one ride at a time
  • Using blockchain to settle foreign exchange transactions
  • How AI can shape the future of banking
  • Hacking for good: Meet the ethical hackers whose job it is to test Wells Fargo’s cybersecurity defenses
  • 3 ways quantum computing could help you

Diversity & Inclusion

  • Minnesota’s first Black-owned bank
  • Combating anti-Asian biases with meaningful investments and focused support
  • More than a game: Support of HBCU classics goes way beyond football
  • Wells Fargo, Spoleto Festival USA share the story of ‘Omar’
  • How to pay for college

Small Business

  • Priya Vasan’s golden opportunity
  • Women entrepreneurs ‘Connect to More’ through Milestone Circles
  • Four-wheelers, three owners, one family
  • How to run a business with a loved one
  • 5 life-balancing tips from mompreneurs

Environment

  • The Bronx development at the intersection of sustainability and affordable housing
  • Wells Fargo, Turntide relationship comes full circle with pilot program
  • Luhning on sustainability: 'It must be sustained through generations’
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