This is the first large-scale demonstration of Individual Development Accounts, with approximately 2,400 accounts opened at 13 sites across the country. 

We assist China with creating its first asset-building program and conduct ongoing research with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

We examine social vulnerability to environmental change, and strategies for social action and adaptation.

Our pilot programs focused on the rural poor with the goal of encouraging low-income families to save for assets for a better life.

With the Indonesian Ministry of Social Welfare and State Islamic University, we designed an asset-based pilot to be implemented in poor areas of Indonesia.

Our research examines the effectiveness of asset-building policies in Native communities and seeks to inform policy design to make inclusive asset-building policies. 

We provide policy and research design support to nongovernmental organizations in Peru and Colombia as they develop three asset-based poverty alleviation initiatives. 

We test asset-building accounts for children and youth to create an inclusive system of Child Development Accounts in 12 communities across the U.S. SEED included more than 1,200 low-income children and their families.

We provide policy and research design support to the government of South Korea as it develops and implements programs that focus on social investment. 

We conducted a study involving nearly 500 veterans in more than 400 nonprofit organizations in 42 states. 

We research asset development in rural America with a focus on underserved populations

We assisted the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families in designing the next evaluation of the AFIA program. 

We investigate the asset holdings of one Native community by asking members to define “assets” for themselves and for their community. 

Our collaboration with the New America Foundation’s Asset Building Program seeks to inform and promote development of asset-building policies and programs worldwide. 

We research how financial education and saving affect student’s financial literacy, academic engagement and plans for college. 

Our project enables families to save and make investments in the Nairobi Stock Exchange in Kenya. 

Our project with the Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies examines the uptake and potential uses of Earned Income Tax Credit dollars by Native people. 

Our project with the Urban Institute evaluates studies of asset building among low-income households for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. 

The policy set up an account for every Singaporean ages 7 to 20. It is one of three asset-building programs that create a cradle-to-grave asset-building system for all.  

Our research informs development of asset-building policies at the state level and is designed to include traditionally marginalized groups. 

Our project with the United Way of Greater St. Louis implemented an IDA Pilot Program to explore a way to build assets in low-income households and communities. 

This initiative in Colombia, Ghana, Kenya and Nepal was to understand conditions for delivery of savings products and services to improve the lives of low-income youth.

Our pilot program tests asset-building innovations for impoverished households and communities in Uganda. 

Our research addresses saving for post-secondary education in American Indian communities in North Carolina. 

We provided policy and research design support to the government of Hong Kong as it developed a proposal for a national Child Development Fund. 

We held a research and policy symposium on knowledge foundations and policy strategies to enable low-wealth individuals to build assets.

This initiative investigates what social conditions and policy supports can make life with a low or moderate income stable, secure, satisfying and successful.

We designed an initiative to develop an integrated “equity” framework for community development to inform constituencies about effective redevelopment of a neighborhood.

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.

We built an inclusive statewide and regional asset-building coalition in the South with Historically Black Colleges and Universities as partners.

Our project assisted the Taipei City government with policy and research design for its Taipei Family Development Account pilot program.

We use our expertise to assess and test innovations that remove barriers to voting and enhance voter participation.