Individual Wealth Building

ASSET-BASED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
Institute for Policy Research
Northwestern University
2040 Sheridan Rd.
Evanston, IL 60208
T 847-491-8711
F 847-467-4140
abcd@northwestern.edu
www.northwestern.edu/ipr/abcd.html
The Asset-Based Community Development Institute (ABCD Institute) provides research, training videos, workshops, publications, and consultation services for those interested in capacity-building community development and neighborhood asset mobilization. The Institute’s work is based on the premise that through mobilizing their own assets, neighborhoods can substitute for imports and become more self-sufficient.

ASSETS FOR INDEPENDENCE DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM
Office of Community Services, Dept. of Health & Human Services
901 D Street, SW, Suite 500 West
Washington, DC 20447
T 202-401-4626
AFIProgram@acf.hhs.gov
www.acf.hhs.gov/assetbuilding
The Assets for Independent Act Demonstration Program is the office that manages the federal pilot IDA program, the Assets for Independence Act (AFIA) and maintains information on federal programs that assist low-income families to accumulate assets and rise out of poverty.

ASSET FUNDERS NETWORK
Cathie Mahon
Asset Funders Network Coordinator
T 718-222-1528
assetfundersnetwork@msn.com
www.gistfunders.org/Web-BasedResources.htm
The Network, founded in 2005, aims to help 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 emergency and plan for their future.

CENTER FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT (CSD)
George Warren Brown School of Social Work
Washington University, Campus Box 1196
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130
T 314-935-7433
F 314-935-8661
csd@gwbmail.wustl.edu
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.

CORPORATION FOR ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT (CFED)
1200 G Street NW Suite 400
Washington, DC 20005
T 202-408-9788
info@cfed.org
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
1127 Harrison Ave.
Roxbury, MA 02119
T 877-642-3167
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.

INSTITUTE ON ASSETS AND SOCIAL POLICY
The Heller School for Social Policy and Management
Brandeis University, Mailstop 077
Walthma, MA 02524
T 781-736-8885
F 781-736-3925
assetinstitute@brandeis.edu
www.assetinstitute.org
Formerly known as the Asset Development Institute, the Institute on Assets & Social Policy aims 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.

NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES, INSTITUTE FOR YOUTH, EDUCATION AND FAMILIES, ASSET BUILDING PROGRAM
1301 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Suite 550
Washington, DC 20004
T 202-626-3000
F 202-626-3043
info@nlc.org
www.nlc.org/iyef/program_areas/
family_economic_success/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
1630 Connecticut Ave., NW, 7th Fl.
Washington, DC 20009
T 202-986-2700
F 202-986-3696
www.assetbuilding.org
Founded in 2002, the New America Foundation is dedicated to do research, media promotion, and policy advocacy for the expansion of individual development accounts and other inclusive asset-building strategies.

NORTHLAND INSTITUTE
13911 Ridgedale Dr., Suite 260
Minneapolis, MN 55305
T 952-541-9674
F 952-541-9684
www.northlandinst.org
Founded as a nonprofit organization in 1996, Northland’s mission is to develop innovative asset-building strategies for local-income individuals, entrepreneurial non-profits, and community economic development organizations. The Institute is an active participant in national IDA coalitions, promotes social enterprise, and advocates ESOPs as a way to build assets among asset-poor workers and root businesses more firmly in their communities.

RESULTS
50 First Street NE, Suite 1040
Washington, DC 20002
T 202-783-7100
F 202-783-2818
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).