Sacramento, CA and Tulsa, OK deployed their Financial Empowerment Center municipal financial counseling initiatives to support eviction prevention and federal rental assistance efforts. By connecting financial empowerment to these rental assistance programs, they not only supercharged social service success, but also brought together a unique range of partners to build a cohesive ecosystem around longer-term financial stability. In both cities, the resulting ecosystems came about after financial empowerment program leaders acted as “connective tissue,” uniting and convening disparate partners serving overlapping clients and interconnected goals.