INQUIRY. INNOVATION. IMPACT.
Using rigorous research, we create innovations in policy and practices that enable individuals, families and communities to achieve life goals and contribute to society.
Announcing The New CSD!
Increasing Successful Completion of Practical Engineering Diploma Programs
Recent Publications
Labor Outcomes of Mortgage Payment Subsidies for Unemployed Homeowners
The National Fund for Children in Kazakhstan
Building Social Work Capacity in Ukraine in Times of War: The Role of Global Social Work Engagement
Financial Capability and Asset Building in Social Work Practice
Special Issue | Innovations in Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: Understanding the Role of International Development Volunteers as Transnational Actors
Featured Events
Spring 2025 Seminar Series
Social Security: Rethinking the Social Contract for Retirement
Fourth National Forum of the Financial Social Work Commission
Social Innovation by Natural-Resource Wealth: Kazakhstan’s National Fund for Children
Featured Projects
Retirement with Dignity
Asset building
Building on the Workforce Economic Inclusion and Mobility Project (2023–2025) and with support from the Prudential Foundation, the Retirement with Dignity Project seeks to examine the potential for and challenges associated with the Secure 2.0 Act’s provisions helping lower wage workers build retirement savings via defined contribution plans and other retirement-savings programs.
SEED for Oklahoma Kids (SEED OK)
Asset Building
The SEED OK experiment, which began in 2007, is a large-scale policy test of universal, automatic, and progressive Child Development Accounts. The CDA uses the Oklahoma 529 College Savings Plan platform.
Financial Capability & Asset Building (FCAB)
Asset Building
We are building a body of evidence in financial capability, defined as both the knowledge to make optimal financial decisions and access to appropriate and beneficial financial services.