Children’s Savings Accounts Case Study: The Jay County Promise
The Portland Foundation is the second oldest community foundation in Indiana, and is located in rural East Central Indiana. It acted on its commitment to …
Financial Coaching: An Asset Building Strategy
People turn to coaches to improve their health, career and finances. A coach can see what a client cannot. Just like a fitness coach holds …
Financial Coaching and the Financial Capability Scale: Moving to Implementation
Financial Coaching is a strategy designed to help people improve their financial well-being by focusing on behavior change. Over the past decade, financial coaching has …
New Perspectives on Homeownership: Tax Incentives
The current debate on tax policy reform provides the ultimate window of opportunity to promote and create policy change that levels the playing field and …
Strategic Philanthropy: Creating Opportunity, Building Wealth, and Driving Community Change
For decades, foundations have invested in a range of approaches that enable families to move forward—to live in safe homes and communities, start their own …
BUILDING FINANCIAL SECURITY IN AMERICA: A 2020-2030 VISION
AFN brief published in 2012.
Tax and Budget Policy Reform
Tax Policy Reform: Delivering financial security opportunities for those who need it most How Asset Development Policies align with Tax and Budget Reform, by C. …
Overstressed Kids: Examining the Impact of Economic Insecurity on Children and Families
A large body of evidence indicates that socioeconomic status is a strong predictor of school achievement and child outcomes in general. Better child outcomes are …
Financial Coaching and the Financial Capability Scale: Guide to Using the Scale
In 2011, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Financial Security launched the Financial Coaching Outcome Measures Project to test a set of standardized measures. Four …