Ida Rademacher, Executive Director, Financial Security Program at the Aspen Institute, delivered the keynote address, The Assets Movement at the Moment of Reckoning, as part of the 2017 Grantmaker Conference. This abridged set of remarks addresses the past, present, and future of asset building and the modern assets movement. In addressing the future, Rademacher offers implications for philanthropy, with remarks from Joanna Smith-Ramani, EPIC & Financial Security Program at the Aspen Institute.

The 2017 Grantmaker conference framed key issues, and elevated promising approaches and timely, relevant research to support strategic and impactful investments. This conference aimed to foster peer-to-peer conversations to help grantmakers bring the desired short and long-term outcomes as reflected in our theme Accelerating Ideas into Action. View all 2017 conference resources.

Sponsors
The 2017 Grantmaker Conference was sponsored by the following: The Kresge Foundation, The Annie E. Casey Foundation, MetLife Foundation, Citi Foundation, J.P. Morgan Chase and Co., Wells Fargo, Prudental, W.K. Kellogg Foundation.