State Asset Building
Initiatives
ARTICLES
Heather McCulloch, “Promoting Economic Security for Working
Families: State Asset-Building Initiatives,” Housing Facts
& Findings, vol. 7, no. 2 (2005).
article-mcculloch.pdf
(128KB)
Ricardo A. Millet, “Statewide Initiative to Build the Assets
of Low-Income Families, Monthly Perspective, Waltham, MA: Institute
on Assets and Social Policy, Brandeis University, December 2005.
article-millet.pdf
(80KB)
Eric Muschler, Policies Can Help Citizens Add Assets, Lansing
State Journal, February 10, 2006.
article-muschler.pdf
(52KB)

PAPERS
Jennifer Brooks, State Asset Policy Coalitions: State of the Field; Opportunities
for Growth, Washington, DC: CFED, January 2009.
paper-brooks.pdf
(320KB)
Tim Flacke and Tiana Wertheim, Delivering a Local EITC: Lessons from the San
Francisco Working Families Credit, Washington, DC and San Francisco, CA: Brookings
Institution, Metropolitan Policy Program, in collaboration with SFWorks, May
2006.
paper-flacke-wertheim.pdf
(343KB)
Caroline E. W. Glackin, The State of Delaware and Asset Building, New Orleans,
LA: presentation to IDA Learning Conference, Sept. 2004.
paper-glackin.pdf
(144KB)
Linda Hoffman, “State Policy Options to Encourage Asset Development
for Low-Income Families, Issue Brief, Washington, DC: National Governor’s
Association Center for Best Practices, February 6, 2006.
paper-hoffman.pdf
(180KB)
Bárbara J. Robles, Wealth Building in the Borderlands: Linking Tax Refunds
to Asset Building, San Francisco, CA: Federal Reserve of San Francisco, paper
presented at A Lifetime of Assets Conference, cosponsored by the Federal Reserve
of San Francisco and CFED, Phoenix, Arizona, September 19-21, 2006.
paper-robles.pdf
(188KB)
Leslie Parrish, Heather McCulloch, Karen Edwards and Gena Gunn, State Policy
Options for Building Assets, Washington, DC and St. Louis, MO: New America Foundation
and Center for Social Development, June 2006.
paper-parrish-et-al.pdf
(280KB)
Leslie Parrish and Lisa Servon, Policy Options to Improve Financial Education:
Equipping Families for their Financial Futures, Washington, DC: New America
Foundation, Asset Building Program, June 2006.
paper-parrish-servon.pdf
(157KB)
Sarah Treuhaft, Connecting Working Families to Economic Opportunities in the
Philadelphia Region: The Role of Employers, Oakland, CA and Philadelphia, PA:
PolicyLink and the Greater Philadelphia Urban Affairs Coalition, November 2007.
paper-treuhaft.pdf
(236KB)
Sandra H. Venner, Asset Building Policies in Massachusetts, Waltham, MA: Brandeis
University, Institute on Assets and Social Policy, The Heller School for Social
Policy and Management, November 2006.
paper-venner.pdf
(188KB)
Voices for Illinois Children, “Asset Building—A Path to Economic
Security,” Illinois Kids Count 2005: Invest in Our Future: Strengthening
Families by Building Assets, Chicago, IL: Voices for Illinois Children, December
2005,
paper-voices4kids.pdf
(408KB)

REPORTS
Andrew Aoki, with Lillian “Beadsie” Woo and Heather McCulloch, Asset-Building
Policy for Hawai‘i, Honolulu, HI: The Hawai‘i Alliance for Community-Based
Economic Development, December 2006.
report-aoki.pdf
(268KB)
Larry W. Beeferman: The Asset Index: Assessing the Progress of States in Promoting
Economic Security and Opportunity, Waltham, MA: Asset Development Institute,
Brandeis University, September 2002.
report-beeferman.pdf
(968KB)
Larry Beeferman and Sandra Venner, Promising State Asset Development Policies:
Promoting Economic Well-Being among Low-Income Households. Waltham, MA: Asset
Development Institute, April 2001.
report-beeferman-venner.pdf
(367KB)
Daniel Bowes, et al,
A Prosperity Grid for North Carolina: Connecting Households and Communities
to Economic Opportunity, Raleigh, NC: N.C. Assets Alliance, June 10, 2009.
report-bowes-et-al.pdf (3.4MB)
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Tina Brooks and James B. Eldridge, Asset Development: Removing Barriers, Building
Futures, Boston, MA: Massachusetts Asset Development Commission, June 2009.
report-brooks-eldridge.pdf
(2MB)
Corporation for Enterprise Development, Benchmarking asset development in fighting
poverty: State asset development report card, Washington, DC: CFED, 2002.
report-cfed.pdf
(1.2KB)
Dwight Evans and Bill Schenck, Co-Chairs, Dollars and Sense: Realistic ways
policymakers can help Pennsylvania’s working families, Harrisburg, PA:
Governor’s Task Force for Working Families, January 2005.
report-evans-schenck.pdf
(496KB)
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Community Investments: Special Issue
on Building Assets, volume 17, no. 2, May 2005.
report-federalreserve.pdf (1MB)
Jack Markell and Caroline E. W. Glackin, State of Delaware: Governor’s
Task Force for Financial Independence, Dover, DE: State of Delaware, June 2002.
report-markell-glackin.pdf
(416KB)
Heather McCulloch, Promoting Economic Security for Working Families: State
Asset-Building Initiatives. Washington, D.C.: Fannie Mae Foundation, July 2005.
report-mcculloch.pdf
(603KB)
Eric Muschler, Helping Working Families Achieve Financial Security: A Report
of the Asset Building Coalition for Michigan, Lansing, MI: Community Economic
Development Association of Michigan and the Council of Michigan Foundations,
January 2006.
report-muschler.pdf
(1MB)
Northwest Area Foundation, Changing Lives: Innovative Solutions to Poverty in
Portland, Oregon, St. Paul, MN: NWAF, October 2005.
report-nwaf.pdf
(1.6MB)
Sandra Venner with Janet Boguslaw and Daphne Lamson Hunt, Innovative State
Policies to Reduce Poverty and Expand the Middle Class, Waltham, MA: Institute
on Assets and Social Policy, Brandeis University, December 2005.
report-venner.pdf
(536KB)
Lillian G. Woo, F. William Schweke, and Dave Bucholz. Hidden in Plain Sight.
Washington, D.C., CFED: 2004.
report-woo.pdf
(1.16MB)
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