Family Economic Security
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10 Ways to Get Involved in Family Economic Security
AnewAmerica Community Corporation
Promotes the long-term economic empowerment of new Americans - new citizens, immigrants, and refugees - and to encourage their full participation in the political, social and cultural growth of America.
Aspen Institute’s The Economic Opportunities Program
Advances innovative and promising strategies that connect the poor and underemployed to the mainstream economy. The program operates on the premise that alleviating poverty requires changing systems and transforming an individual’s relationship to money, work and assets.
Building Assets While Building Community
This report, commission by the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, proposes that economic development activities hold untapped potential to support savings and create home, business and real estate ownership opportunities affordable and accessible to low-income families. It also presents concrete strategies for structuring neighborhood economic development activities to maximize asset accumulation for low-income residents.
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
A policy organization working at the federal and state levels on fiscal policy and public programs that affect low- and moderate-income families and individuals. The Center conducts research and analysis to inform public debates over proposed budget and tax policies and to help ensure that the needs of low-income families and individuals are considered in these debates.
Center for Financial Service Innovation
Develops and distributes real-world tested research and strategy, provides funding to promising companies, and facilitates cross-sector business collaboration. They work with banks, credit unions, technology vendors, alternative service providers, consumer advocates and policy makers to forge the pioneering relationships, products and strategies that will transform industry practice and the lives of underbanked consumers across the economic, geographic and cultural spectrum.
Center for Responsible Lending
A nonprofit, nonpartisan research and policy organization dedicated to protecting homeownership and family wealth by working to eliminate abusive financial practices.
Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation
Their mission is to encourage human development in West Virginia and Southwestern Pennsylvania through strategically placed charitable resources.
Corporate Voices For Working Families
A non-partisan, non-profit corporate membership organization created to bring the private sector voice into the public dialogue on issues affecting working families.
Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED)
CFED expands economic opportunity by helping Americans start and grow businesses, go to college, own a home, and save for their children’s and own economic futures.
The Economic Opportunity Program is designed to bring new political and public attention to the widespread economic insecurity and declining opportunity that characterizes American society today.
EARN breaks the cycle of poverty by matching the savings of low-wage workers and helping them invest in assets that build wealth, creating a cycle of prosperity across generations.
An adult education program to help adults outside the financial mainstream enhance their money skills and create positive banking relationships.
The IRS’s webpage on the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)
JumpStart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy
A coalition of more than 170 national partners and local coalitions in 46 states. The Coalition’s direct objective is to encourage curriculum enrichment to ensure that basic personal financial management skills are attained during the K-12 educational experience.
Heather McCulloch, Principal, Asset Building Strategies
Heather McCulloch is an asset policy consultant based in San Francisco, California. She is the author of a number of reports on community wealth building, including Promoting Economic Security for Working Families: State Asset-Building Initiatives, which reviews state coalition policy efforts in California, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.
National Community Tax Coalition
This site provides information and technical assistance for local free tax preparation campaigns.
National Economic Development and Law Center
NEDLC is a national research and consulting organization dedicated to building economic health and opportunity in vulnerable communities.
National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE)
A non-profit foundation dedicated to helping all Americans acquire the information and gain the skills necessary to take control of their personal finances.
National Fund for Workforce Solutions
A new national funding intermediary which seeks to improve employment, training, and labor market outcomes for low-income individuals. The Fund’s support will improve both the quality of jobs and the capacity of workers by promoting change at three levels: individual, institution, and system. The result: better jobs, better workers, and a better workforce development system.
Their mission is strengthening & promoting cities as centers of opportunity, leadership, and governance and has a webpage on Family Economic Success
A multi-national nonprofit organization that brings broadband to the homes of low-income people and provides a multilingual web portal called The Beehive (www.thebeehive.org). Their mission is to maximize the potential of technology to help low-income people improve their lives and enter the economic mainstream.
Saving for Education, Entrepreneurship, and Downpayment (SEED) Policy and Practice Initiative
A multi-year national initiative to develop, test and impel matched savings accounts and financial education for children and youth.
State EITC Online Resource Center
Aims to provide easy access to research and resources about state Earned Income Tax Credits and efforts to enact the credit in particular states
Their mission is to help build a healthy, just, and vibrant society in which people feel connected to and responsible for their community.
The High Cost of Being Poor (2003)
This essay, taken from the Annie E. Casey Foundation's 2003 KIDS COUNT Data Book, focuses on helping low-income families get by and get ahead.