State Asset Building Initiatives

SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS

Asset Building Strategies
heathermcc@sbcglobal.net
Heather McCulloch, a principal in Asset Building Strategies, is an asset policy consultant based in San Francisco, California. She has authored a number of reports on community wealth building, including Promoting Economic Security for Working Families: State Asset-Building Initiatives, which reviews efforts in California, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. She is also a co-founder and member of the Executive Committee of the Asset Policy Initiative of California (APIC) and a member of the consulting team for the Ho’o`waiwai Asset Policy Initiative of Hawaii.

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
http://www.cbpp.org/pubs/eitc.htm
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities provides research and technical assistance support for state initiatives. The Center’s Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) website includes a variety of publications both on the effect of the federal earned income tax credit and on efforts to establish similar credits to build assets among the working poor at the state level.

Center for Social Development
http://gwbweb.wustl.edu/csd/asset/
The Center for Social Development (CSD) is part of the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis. CSD publishes a wide variety of studies on asset policy strategies and provides assistance for groups pursuing asset-building strategies. Their website includes information on state asset policy, individual development accounts, tribal economies, and community development financial institutions.

CFED (formerly Corporation for Enterprise Development)
www.cfed.org/focus.m?parentid=31&siteid=1606&id=1609#content1
CFED works both on a policy level and with community organizations to achieve greater social equity, alleviate poverty and develop a more sustainable economy by helping low and moderate income Americans save and access capital. CFED supports community wealth building through savings incentives, entrepreneurship, local community development, and other efforts that enable people with limited incomes to save and invest.

Institute on Assets and Social Policy (Brandeis University)
www.assetinstitute.org
The Institute on Assets and Social Policy, established in 1999, works with state and federal policymakers, constituency organizations, grassroots advocates, private philanthropies, and the media to bridge the worlds of academic research, government policy-making and the interests of organizations and constituencies. The Institute conducts a wide range of research that aims to assist policy makers and practitioners in developing asset-building policies.

National Association of Latino Community Asset Builders
www.nalcab.org
NALCAB is the national voice for a diverse group of Latino-led community development corporations and other community-based organizations that focus on asset building. The group aims to build financial and human assets as well as real estate and technology resources in Latino families, communities, and organizations.

National Conference of State Legislatures:
Family Economic Success project
www.ncsl.org/programs/sfn/sfn.htm
The National Conference of State Legislators, in partnership with the Annie E. Casey Foundation, is working to raise legislators' awareness on the needs of vulnerable families and neighborhoods and individual and community wealth building approaches available to meet those needs. NCSL provide direct support to state legislators interested in state asset policy initiatives.

New America Foundation: State Asset Policy Initiatives
www.newamerica.net/programs/asset_building
New America defines asset building as “public policy and private sector efforts to enable persons with limited financial resources to accumulate and preserve long-term, productive assets—savings, investments, a home, post-secondary education and training, a small business, and a nest-egg for retirement.” As part of its overall asset building program, the New America Foundation tracks a wide range of state asset policy initiatives. The group also provides support for development of asset policy.