In the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the state of Louisiana has taken steps to make asset building a priority. The Louisiana Department of Social Services has embraced the concept of asset building, and is implementing programs that offer opportunities for asset building to low- and moderate-income residents.
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The Development Report Card for the States (DRC) is intended as a tool for policymakers, practitioners, and advocates to understand how their states' economies, and the factors that promote healthy economies, are faring relative to other states. As a resource for readers of the DRC who want to improve their state's performance in a given area, CFED is beginning to chronicle "Promising Practices" for each of the 12 subindexes of the DRC. In time, each issue area will have its own brief, which will in turn then be continually updated.
To do this, CFED is convening a series of roundtable discussions of experts and leading thinkers in each of the fields analyzed in the DRC. Participants are asked to bring to the table promising examples of existing, real-world practices that were being initiated by states or that could be supported at the state level. From this collective brain trust, CFED is distilling the best of these ideas in this series of Promising Practices briefs. These are meant as a starting point for readers of the DRC who want to know where to turn to find the best ideas around the country that could be adapted or replicated in their state.
The following Promising Practices briefs are available:
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