State Asset Building Initiatives
Overview \
Support Organizations \ Models
& Best Practices
Research Resources \ Articles-Publications
RESEARCH RESOURCES
Asset Coalition Toolkit for States
www.assetcoalitiontoolkit.org
Asset Coalition Toolkit for the States (ACTS) is an independent, information-sharing
website where state coalitions can exchange knowledge and strategies in the asset-building
field. Sponsored by the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law’s
Community Investment Unit with support from the Levi Straus Foundation and the
Friedman Family Foundation, ACTS provides a forum that fosters innovation through
a wealth of resources.
Annie
E. Casey Foundation: Family Economic Success initiative
www.aecf.org/MajorInitiatives/CenterforFamilyEconomicSuccess.aspx
Annie E. Casey's Family Economic Success initiative
helps low-income working families build their financial futures
in strong neighborhoods by integrating three key components:
job and skills training, family asset building, and community
wealth building. The website includes a wide range of publications
on these issues.
Asset
Funders Network
www.assetfunders.org
AFN, founded in 2005, helps foundations identify how to direct resources
so that asset policy and products are accessible to people with
limited resources or otherwise unable to build sufficient financial
reserves to withstand emergencies and plan for their future. The
website contains conference presentations and other materials on
community wealth building.
Center
for Financial Services Innovation
www.cfsinnovation.com
Founded in 2004 as an affiliate of ShoreBank, a community development
bank, and with funding from the Ford Foundation, CFSI assists the
financial services industry to identify, develop, and implement
innovative ways of delivering community wealth building opportunities
to un-banked Americans.
CFED
Assets and Opportunity Scorecard
www.cfed.org/go/scorecard
The Assets and Opportunity Scorecard measures how easy or difficult
state policy makes it for families across the United States to achieve
self-sufficiency. The scorecard focuses on two areas: first, a family's
ability to build assets that can be used to invest for the future,
send children to college, and weather unexpected financial storms;
and second, safety nets and safeguards that provide financial security
in the event of a job loss, medical emergency, or other family emergency.
Community
Giving Resource
www.communitygivingresource.org
Funded by the Aspen Institute and the Neighborhood Funders Group,
The Community Giving Resource is a free resource for donors and
small family foundations committed to helping low-income communities
and individuals. CGR summarizes research on community wealth building,
including state asset policy initiatives, to help smaller foundations
more effectively support struggling neighborhoods and communities.
Finance Project/Information Resource Center
www.financeproject.org/irc/win/assetdev.asp
Founded in 1994, the Finance Project provides research, consulting,
technical assistance, and training to assist in the development
of policies, programs, and financing strategies for community development
efforts. Its website contains links to publications on a wide range
of community wealth building initiatives. |
