Accumulated wealth can be passed on to children, begetting yet more wealth and opportunity in successive generations. This report examines associations by race between parental economic resources, parental financial support, and their children’s adult economic success.
This resource was shared at the 2017 AFN Grantmaker Conference which 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 the theme Accelerating Ideas into Action. View all the 2017 conference resources.