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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

 

 

What is the Asset Funders Network?

The purpose of the Network is to help foundations identify how to direct resources so that asset policy and products are accessible to people with limited resources or those otherwise unable to build sufficient financial reserves to withstand emergency and plan for their future. 

The Asset Funders Network will explore policy, research and products that promote asset building and asset preservation including:

  • Asset accounts, such as Individual Development Accounts (IDAs), Children's Savings Accounts and retirement accounts

  • Homeownership development 

  • Retirement planning, pensions and social security

  • Productive credit options

  • Higher education and self-employment

  • Reducing predatory lending and increasing alternatives to predators.

     

Goals and Strategies


The network brings funders together to share their own funding goals and strategies and to develop a community of funders committed to asset building work. Specific goals for the network are:

  • Provide a forum to discuss strategy, promising new practice and policy.
  • Raise visibility about asset building work within the philanthropic community.
  • Serve as a resource or clearinghouse for funders interested in asset building work.
  • Offer networking opportunities to build funder collaborations.
  • Keep funders abreast of key issues facing the field.

The network plans to hold regular collaborative conferences, teleconferences, host a website and make resources available through a clearinghouse on asset-building resources and publications.

 

 

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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