44 As the exclusive sponsor of the Military Family Financial Readiness Council, led by the Military Family Advisory Network , * Wells Fargo is committed to empowering service members, veterans, and their families to gain financial knowledge and skills that can help them manage all stages of life, from permanent change of station to deployment to retirement . To support financial readiness, we offer the Hands on Banking ® program, a free, noncommercial financial education program that offers service members a personalized learning experience with lessons and resources relevant to a service member’s life . In addition, Hands on Banking is integrated into the National Foundation for Credit Counseling * Sharpen Your Financial Focus® initiative . We also support veteran-owned businesses through our supplier diversity strategy . We’re corporate members of the National Veteran-Owned Business Association (PDF) , * and we work closely together to identify veteran- owned businesses to compete for Wells Fargo’s procurement opportunities . In addition, we invest each year in helping veteran-owned businesses grow by sending certain veteran business owners to top executive education programs across the country . Furthermore, we continue to work internally and collaborate externally with organizations aligned with our mission to support housing affordability, military spouses and families, financial health, small business growth, and military talent through their career transitions . Our ultimate goal is to empower military communities to effectively navigate life’s transitions and achieve ongoing career, community, and financial success, while making a positive impact for others . Improving accessibility for customers with disabilities As part of Wells Fargo’s ongoing commitment to people with disabilities, we continue to focus on accessibility efforts to ensure customers enjoy equal access to Wells Fargo products and services, including physical locations and digital content and services . We strive to follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) to make our digital content and services accessible . When accessibility is considered throughout the design and development process, more customers, including people with disabilities, can better access products and services, and conduct financial transactions online, by phone, and in our branches . A national alliance between Wells Fargo and Disability:IN(PDF)* provides continuing education opportunities for disability-owned business enterprises and service-disabled veteran disability-owned business enterprises . Wells Fargo underwrites scholarships that help these business owners participate in the Tuck Business School’s diverse business education program at Dartmouth College .* *We do not control this website . Wells Fargo has provided this link for your convenience, but does not endorse and is not responsible for the content, links, privacy policy, or security policy of this website .
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