About Consumer Action
Consumer Action is a non-profit, membership-based organization that was founded in San Francisco in 1971. During its more than three decades, Consumer Action has continued to serve consumers nationwide by advancing consumer rights, referring consumers to complaint-handling agencies through our free hotline, publishing educational materials in Chinese, English, Korean, Spanish, Vietnamese and other languages, advocating for consumers in the media and before lawmakers, and comparing prices on credit cards, bank accounts and long distance services. See What We Do for detailed information.
Projects
Consumer Services Guide. The Consumer Services Guide is searchable directory of resources which can help you with consumer problems and questions.
Healthy Children Organizing Project. The Healthy Children Organizing Project (formerly the Lead Poisoning Prevention Project) works in in San Francisco's low-income and minority communities to protect young children from preventable diseases caused by environmental hazards.
Housing Information Project. Consumer Action's housing program launched in 2006 to help consumers prepare for homeownership, avoid foreclosure and to learn about the housing and mortgage markets.
Managing Money. Managing Money is a Consumer Action Project. Its web site, www.managing-money.org, is in beta testing.
MoneyWi$e. This long-standing national financial literacy partnership of Consumer Action and Capital One provides free educational materials to individuals, non-profits and community based organizations.