Meeting on Asset Building Policies and Strategies

"Making Connections and Linkages Among Asset Funders"

March 9, 2006

Hotel Lombardy

2019 Pennslyvania Avenue NW

Washington, DC  20006

(202) 857-3919

MEETING AGENDA - click here

BACKGROUND MATERIALS

Session I:  Overview of Asset Policy  

1.  New America Foundation:  Asset Building Articles:      

"Many Ways to Boost US Personal Savings," Washington Times        

"A Homestead Act for the Twenty-First Century," Harvard Business Review      

"Savings Incentives for All Income Levels," Wall Street Journal  

2.  Corporation for Enterprise Development documents:   

"CFEDs 2005-2006 Policies for Asset Building"       

"CFEDs 2005-2006 Policy Priorities" 

3.  Fannie Mae Foundation:

"Promoting Economic Security for Working Families" - link below http://content.knowledgeplex.org/kp2/cache/documents/106925.pdf    

Session II: Developing Integrated Asset Building Strategies  

Walter and Elise Haas Fund paper: "Building Assets While Building Communities"  

Session III: Microenterprise and Asset Building  

Aspen Institute: http://fieldus.org/Publications/FulfillingthePromise.pdf

PRESENTATIONS BY SPEAKERS

Presentation by Ray Boshara, "Why Policy Matters:  Challenges and Opportunities for Funders."

Presentation by Jennifer Brooks, "State and Federal Asset Policy"

Presentation by Joyce Klein, "Opening Opportunities, Building Ownership:  Fullfilling the Promise of Microenterprise in the United States."

Presentation by Jeff Lubell, "Asset Building as a Framework for Partnering Across Silos"

Presentation by Heather McCulloch, "State Asset Policy Initiatives"

Presentation by Heather McCulloch, "Building Assets While Building Communities"

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

MEETING PARTICIPANTS

Contact list of meeting participants