Asset Funder Network is the funder affinity group in the US - a group of foundations, corporate funders and other organisations that explicitly support asset building programmes, policy advancement and movement building. The goals and strategies for the network are to bring funders together to share their own funding goals and strategies and to develop a community of funders committed to asset building work.
The Asset Policy Initiative of California (APIC) is a statewide network of stakeholders from the public, private and nonprofit sectors who are committed to increasing asset building opportunities for California’s working families. APIC is a clearinghouse and policy voice for the emerging asset building movement in the state.
Center for Social Development conducts research that informs how individuals, families, and communities increase capacity, formulate and reach life goals, and contribute to the economy and society. Key asset building research projects include the Global Assets Project, the longitudinal research on children's savings accounts in the US (SEED), and the work on state asset policy.
Community Wealth has been developed by The Democracy Collaborative. The website posts information about community-based economic development strategies for practitioners, policymakers, researchers and media interested in community-level wealth building theories and programmes.
The Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED) is a national nonprofit based in Washington, DC dedicated to expanding economic opportunity for low-income families and communities. CFED uses a “think-do-invest” approach grounded in community practice, public policy and private markets.
EARN (Earned Assets Resource Network) is an award-winning California-based nonprofit that gives low-income workers the power to create economic prosperity for their families for generations to come. EARN is one of the top IDA programs in the US, and also includes a research function and a policy arm, Asset Policy Initiative of California.
Insight Center for Community Economic Development: Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative is a national effort to address the wealth gap that leaves the average American family of color with only 16 cents for every dollar owned by the average white family. To close this gap in the next generation, we have brought together over 150 scholars, advocates, and practitioners of color to inform the national economic debate with diverse perspectives and provide policy solutions to create a more inclusive and equitable future for all Americans.
New America Foundation (NAF) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy institute that invests in new thinkers and new ideas to address the next generation of challenges facing the United States. NAF produces an innovative blog on asset building, called The Ladder. There are (3) different web sites hosted by New American Foundation, an LSF grantee. This Washington DC-based progressive think tank has an asset building program that focuses on federal and state asset policy development and advocacy.
The Opportunity Fund is an asset building programme in the Bay Area, which started out as a traditional community development organisation doing lending and small business development. It expanded its model to include a large IDA programme (the biggest in the US, scale-wise) and it continues to innovate through a 3-pronged approach blending asset building, small business lending and development (including managing a micro-loan fund for small entrepreneurs) and capital investment in low-cost housing.