Individual Wealth Building
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RESEARCH RESOURCES
Asset
for Independence Demonstration Program (Office of Community Services,
U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services)
www.acf.hhs.gov/assetbuilding/index.html
This is the web site of the sole existing federal individual development
account program. It contains a wealth of information, including
a map showing 185 IDA programs that it has funded across the country.
Assets
Newsletter
www.cfed.org/think.m?id=113&groupid=assets&clusterid=1
This on-line periodical of the IDA Network (formerly known as Assets,
A Quarterly Update for Innovators), has been published since 1998
and contains a number of informative articles about IDA activity
across the country.
Asset-building.org
(New America Foundation)
www.assetbuilding.org
This web site serves as a clearinghouse for news and research about
individual development accounts and related individual asset-building
efforts.
Center for
Social Development (Washington University in St. Louis)
http://gwbweb.wustl.edu/csd
Founded by Michael Sherraden in 1994, the Center for Social Development
is widely credited with developing and popularizing the idea of
individual development accounts as a method for promoting greater
asset accumulation by low-income individuals. The Center regularly
provides a directory of state-level IDA programs as well as publishing
research papers.
Institute
on Assets and Social Policy (Brandeis University)
www.assetinstitute.org
The Institute on Assets and Social Policy was established in 1999
to promote and advance individual asset-building policy choices
that promise to reduce hunger and poverty in the nation by addressing
their root causes. Its mission is to broaden and redefine the asset
development concept and familiarize the public, media, and policy
leaders with the asset development approach.
Welfare
Information Network, “Individual development accounts”
www.financeprojectinfo.org/WIN/individu.asp
This website has a large selection of research papers written on
individual development accounts, as well as a good overview of innovative
state and local programs.
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