New Website: AssetBuilding.org

Posted by on January 30, 2004

[posted from Community Development Banking Listserv]

From: “Leslie Parrish”

The Asset Building Program of the New America Foundation invites you to visit http://www.assetbuilding.org. We hope you find this new clearinghouse helpful, and we very much welcome your comments.

Ray Boshara, Director, Asset Building Program
Reid Cramer, Research Director, Asset Building Program
Leslie Parrish, Senior Research Associate, Asset Building Program

The New America Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of AssetBuilding.org — an online clearinghouse of ideas, policies, and programs to broaden asset ownership in the U.S. and around the world. Asset Building refers to public policy and private sector efforts to enable persons with limited financial resources to accumulate, preserve, and control long-term, productive assets — savings, investments, a home, post-secondary education and training, a small business, and a nest-egg for retirement.

Visit the “Sign Up” section of AssetBuilding.org to receive periodic email updates on what’s happening in the field, public policy developments, and new additions to the site.

AssetBuilding.org includes the following sections:

OVERVIEW: an introduction to asset building
IN THE NEWS: links to relevant articles in leading newspapers and magazines
EVENTS: upcoming meetings, conferences, and hearings
RESEARCH: links to essential and cutting-edge research
POLICY: policy ideas, pending legislation, and current laws, plus asset building ideas from the Bush Administration and the 2004 Presidential Candidates
INITIATIVES: information on national organizations with a focus on asset building
DATA SOURCES: primary data on asset ownership and inequality

Many parts of the website can be searched by any of the 35 asset building topics listed below:
Accounts at Birth
African Americans
Asset Control/Deployment
Asset Limits
Asset Poverty
Asset Protection/Preservation
Assets Theory
Children and Youth
Common/Public Assets
Community Assets
Effects of Assets
EITC and Assets
Employee Stock Ownership Plans
Financial Education
Financial Services/Products
Hispanic Americans
Homeownership
Individual Development Accounts
Inequality
Intergenerational Wealth Transfer
International Asset Building
Investments
Land
Microenterprise
Native Americans
People with Disabilities
Post-Secondary Education/Training
Race and Wealth
Refugees
Retirement-Employer Sponsored
Retirement-Private Savings
Retirement-Social Security
Savings/Savings Rate
Universal/Lifetime Savings Accounts
Women

Visit the “Sign Up” section to receive periodic email updates

Questions or comments? Please email the Asset Building Program of the New America Foundation at assetbuilding@newamerica.net.

AssetBuilding.org is made possible by funding from the Ford Foundation, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and the Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation.