Individual Wealth Building
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Support Organizations \ Models
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SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS
Asset
Funders Network
www.gistfunders.org/AssetFunders.htm
A consortium led by a steering committee consisting of members
of five foundations (Haas, Ford, Mott, Heron, and Annie E.
Casey), the network aims to support asset building for people
of limited means. Areas of focus include Individual Development
Accounts (IDAs), Children's Savings Accounts, retirement accounts,
homeownership promotion, micro-enterprise promotion, access
to education, and anti-predatory lending programs.
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Assets Alliance
www.assetsalliance.org
The Assets Alliance is a group of experienced professionals from the Individual Development Account (IDA) and asset-building fields. Alliance members, located throughout the United States, deliver training and technical assistance at local, state, regional, and national levels and are dedicated to growing the asset development field.
Corporation
for Enterprise Development
www.cfed.org
The Corporation for Enterprise Development works to promote
asset-building strategies for both distressed individuals
and communities as a way to ensure a sustainable economy accessible
to all segments of the community. CFED maintains the IDA network,
which links IDA programs across the nation. CFED provides
economic policy design, research and analysis services as
well.
Doorway to Dreams
www.d2dfund.org
The Doorways to Dreams (D2D) Fund works to expand access to financial
services, especially asset building opportunities, for low-income
families by creating, testing and deploying innovative financial
products and services. The group’s Refunds to Assets program
enables low-income tax to automatically direct a percentage of their
federal tax refund to a savings account, while its Online Individual
Development Account program creates a web-based, integrated financial
transaction and record keeping system to reduce IDA program overhead
costs
IDA Network
(CFED)
http://idanetwork.cfed.org
The IDA Network is comprised of community economic development professionals,
IDA VISTA (Volunteers in Service To America) members, account holders,
financial institution representatives, federal and state policy
makers, legislative staff, social policy researchers, press members,
and others who share a commitment to expanding opportunities for
low-income families to build financial and human capital. The website
has links to a number of state and local IDA programs.
National
League of Cities, Institute for Youth, Education and Families,
Asset Building Program
www.nlc.org/iyef/program_areas/
family_economic_success_v2/7496.aspx
The Asset Building Program of the Institute for Youth, Education,
and Families (YEF Institute), a special entity within the
National League of Cities (NLC), helps municipal leaders take
action on a variety of individual asset building strategies,
including homeownership counseling and incentives, individual
development account programs, and asset protection measures
to help families avoid predatory lending and other “wealth-stripping”
practices.
New
America Foundation
www.newamerica.net/programs/asset_building
Founded in 1999, the New America Foundation is a public policy
institute that has become a leading advocate of individual
development accounts and related programs through its “Asset
Building Program.”
Results
www.results.org
Working in over 100 communities throughout the United States, Results aims to reduce poverty both in the United States and abroad. Support for individual wealth-building programs are at the heart of its U.S.-based efforts, including support for micro-enterprise, child savings accounts, and Individual Development Accounts (IDAs). |
