“For too long, people with disabilities have been relegated to the margins of society,” exclaimed Megan O’Neil, Access to Assets Project Coordinator at the World Institute on Disability (WID). “Asset-building programs give people the support, selfconfidence, and opportunity to become economically self-sufficient and truly integrated into society.”
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The IDA field is supported by a variety of national, regional, and local organizations. These intermediaries serve the field in the areas of:
- policy (federal and state),
- research (policy and practice),
- support services (training, TA, financial education), and
- information sharing and exchange (convenings, published & online resources, and online dialogues).
CFED recently attempted to 'map' the provision of these services by some of the organizations serving the field in our Intermediary Mapping Table. Below are links to these -- and more -- intermediaries and support organizations.
Aspen Institute, Economic Opportunities Program and Initiative on Financial Security
Association for Enterprise Opportunity
Assets for Independence (AFI) Program, Office of Community Services
Beginning Farmer and Rancher IDA Program
Center for Community Capital, UNC Chapel Hill
Center for Financial Services Innovation
Center for Social Development (CSD)
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Community Action Project of Tulsa County
Consumer Federation of America
Credit Union National Association
Energizing Entrepreneurs (hosted by the RUPRI Center for Rural Entrepreneurship)
Enterprise Corporation of the Delta
First Nations Development Institute
Insight Center for Community Economic Development
Institute for Social and Economic Development (ISED)
Institute on Assets and Social Policy
National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders (NALCAB)
National Conference of State Legislatures
National Community Tax Coalition
National Endowment for Financial Education
National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions
National Governors Association Center for Best Practices
NeighborWorks America (Neighborhood Reinvestment Training Institute)
New America Foundation (also see their website assetbuilding.org)
Office of Refugee Resettlement's (ORR) IDA Program, Administration for Children and Families
Southeast Asia Resource Action Center
1200 G Street NW Suite 400 Washington, DC 20005 Ph: 202.408.9788 Questions for CFED?