Web-Based Resources

The work of the Asset Funders Network is guided by a Steering Committee comprised of:

Dana Bezerra

FB Heron Foundation

Amanda Feinstein

Walter and Elise Haas Fund

Kilolo Kijakazi

Ford Foundation

Brandee McHale

Ford Foundation

Benita Melton

C. S. Mott Foundation

Irene Skricki

Annie E. Casey Foundation

Web-Based Resources for Asset Building

www.assetbuilding.org. This website offers information on policy, research and program work in support of asset building initiatives.

www.idanetwork.org. The IDA network is an online community of community development professionals, account holders, financial institutions, policy makers, and researchers engaged in sharing information and best practice on Individual Development Accounts.
http://gwbweb.wustl.edu/csd. The Center for Social Development at Washington University provides resources and publications on asset building efforts including: the downpayment on the American dream demonstration (ADD), up to date research on children’s savings accounts and asset policy.
www.cfsinnovation.com The Center for Financial Service Innovation offers a web-based research clearinghouse on asset-building activities.
www.aspeninstitute.org The Aspen Institute website provides research and best practices on achieving scale in community development and asset building, microenterprise, studies on the state of the IDA field and children's savings accounts from the Economic Opportunities Program and Initiative on Financial Security.
www.assetpolicy-ca.org/researchdata.php. This website from the Asset Policy Initiative of California (APIC) contains national data and statistics on the asset gap and asset strategies.
www.demos.org. The debt and assets clearinghouse provides up to date research on the impact of debt, predatory lending and assetbuilding on economic security. The “Around the Kitchen Table” page provides commentary & analysis on how national economic trends in debt, assets, education and income play out around the kitchen tables of individuals and families in America.
www.woodstockinst.org Woodstock Institute was founded in 1973 by the philanthropist Sylvia Scheinfeld and a group of Chicago-based civil rights leaders, community development practitioners and academics. Its mission is to research, develop and promote ways to bring economic resources to lower-income and minority families and communities.

Upcoming Events

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Recent Events

"What We've Learned So Far About Savings."

Final call in three-part conference call series

3. "Behavioral Economics and Decision-Making about Savings in low-income households" This discussion was led by Professor Eldar Shafir of Princeton University

January 11, 2007 at 2:00 pm EST

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Second call in three-part conference call series

2. "Asset Building in Assisted Savings Programs: What matters in structured savings programs and plans?"

Led by Bob Friedman, Center for Social Development and Univ of Kansas School of Social Work

Tues, Nov 28, 2006, 2:30 pm EST

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First call in three-part conference call series

1."Savings Behavior of Low- and Moderate-income households." Led by Michael Barr, Univ of Mich

Monday, October 30 at 2:00 pm EST

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CFED's 2006 Assets Learning Conference

A Lifetime of Assets: Building Families, Communities & Economies

September 19-21, 2006

Phoenix, AZ

An informal dinner was held for funders on Sept 20th

www.assetsconference.org

Neighborhood Funders Group (NFG) 2006 Annual Conference

Building Community, Building Assets: Race, Place & Equity

September 11-13, 2006

Durham, NC

Course highlight: "Assets Institute" co-created by the Asset Funders Network

Meeting on Asset Building Policies and Strategies

"Making Connections and Linkages Among Asset Funders"

Hotel Lombardy, Washington, DC

March 9, 2006

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Conference Call on Homeownership

February 14, 2006 at 1:00 pm

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Launch Meeting of the Asset Funders Network

"Poverty, Inequality and the Role of Philanthropy in Asset Creation and Preservation"

Friday, December 9, 2005

New York, NY

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