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An HR Balancing Act: Relieving Employee Financial Stress for Improved Mental Health

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For two decades, SAMHSA has designated May as Mental Health Awareness Month to underscore mental health’s significance in our overall well-being. While conversations about the correlation between financial strain and mental wellness are prevalent, they tend to emphasize individual responsibility. But amid the most stressful financial events  — unexpected hardships — many people cannot fully … Read more

Workplace Wellness Programs: Employer Solutions to Help Employees Navigate Financial Emergencies

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the modern workforce requires companies to take a portfolio approach to employee financial wellness programs

This blog was co-written by Canary’s Catherine Scagnelli and Rachel Schneider. We all experience the unexpected. This week, for one person, it may be a broken dishwasher. For someone else, it may be a car repair, a leaking roof, or a trip to the ER. We simply cannot know in advance about every financial disruption … Read more

Are medical issues affecting employee productivity?

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In today’s fast-paced world, the weight of medical bills can lead to significant financial stress for individuals. This stress doesn’t stay confined to personal lives – it often spills over into the workplace, impacting employee productivity and overall well-being. In fact, one in three full-time employees says that money worries have negatively impacted their productivity … Read more

Bridging the Healthcare Gap: The Impact of Employee Relief Funds During Medical Emergencies

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Employee Relief Funds become essential corporate resources during medical emergencies

Access to healthcare has long been a contentious issue in the United States. It leaves many individuals either vulnerable to financial hardship during medical emergencies or risking their health by avoiding the medical attention they need. The exorbitant costs of treatments, combined with the limitations of health insurance coverage, often lead to significant financial burdens … Read more

Guest Post: Create a Culture of Giving by Donating Your Unused PTO to Coworkers in Need

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PTO Exchange guest blog: Create a Culture of Giving by Donating Your Unused PTO to Coworkers in Need

This is a guest blog post written by our partners at PTO Exchange. During the holiday season, giving can come in many forms: volunteering your time, giving a monetary donation, or donating physical items. But there is another way you can give—donating your unused PTO to colleagues who have fallen on hard times. With PTO … Read more

Visionworks Cares: Delivering Meaningful Hardship Relief to a Dispersed Retail Workforce

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Visionworks provides a hardship relief fund to help employees in times of crisis, including natural disaster recovery

Earlier this year, we partnered with Visionworks to support their employee’s financial wellness and launched the Visionworks Cares Grant Circle. The Visionworks hardship relief solution gives their 7,200 employees at more than 650 optical retail stores across the United States quick, dignified access to emergency grant money when they need it most. This includes employees … Read more

Preparing for the future: how and why climate change impacts Canary’s product roadmap

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couple waiting for natural disaster relief after emergency

Meka Este-McDonald is Canary’s Head of Product and this is the first in a series of his product-focused blog posts. You can follow Meka on Twitter or LinkedIn. September is National Preparedness Month for natural disasters, it is an apt time to build off of the post my colleague, Catherine, wrote about the growing need … Read more

Equipping Employers to Provide Financial Safety Nets

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This article was originally published by Capital One on August 3, 2022. Rachel Schneider, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Canary, is working to close the gap in employee benefits and help those impacted by financial hardships rebound faster. Canary’s platform, backed by the strategic investing arm of Capital One, connects employees to critical emergency … Read more

Canary now SOC 2 certified: Securely providing emergency cash grants to employees in need

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Computer developers hard at work creating and ensuring a safe, secure product

We are thrilled to share that Canary and Grant Circle, our platform for employee assistance grants, are now SOC 2 Type 2 certified! The lengthy process returned a clean audit and highlights our commitment to data security, privacy, and compliance. All Grant Circle users (employers and employees) can be confident that their data is secure and … Read more

Ingo Money’s Emergency Relief Fund: Building Work Community Through a Culture of Giving

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Rachel Schneider: So, Drew, we’re here to get an understanding of how you think about your company and your relationship to your employees and their financial lives. You, in particular Drew, have spent your career thinking about the financial wellness of people. And so I wasn’t at all surprised when you immediately related to the … Read more

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