Montana builds the capacity of local organizations to promote community asset-building and microbusiness ownership.    From Wordnik.com.  [Awards For Excellence In Microenterprise Development] Reference

While asset-building opportunities are obviously important, it's time to focus public policy on lifting American wages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Winston Griffith: Homeownership and Asset-Building Beyond the Bush Ownership Society] Reference

If you think you're being "punished" now, just wait until the mortgage meltdown takes your job, asset-building opportunities and any economic security you have with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Winston Griffith: Mortgage Assistance Doesn't Punish "Responsible" Borrowers] Reference

Funding shortages forced Earn, a nonprofit in San Francisco that offers asset-building services in the Bay Area, to open 315 accounts in 2008, less than half of the 635 accounts opened in 2007.    From Wordnik.com.  [IDAs Offer Small Boost] Reference

This means we will need to continue to explore ways that policy can shore up the safety net at the same time as we keep an eye out for innovative asset-building programs that help families move up and out of poverty over the long haul.    From Wordnik.com.  [Revising the Poverty Measure and a Better Way to Count the Poor] Reference

While past debates pitted asset-building strategies against those focused on mitigating immediate hardship, in the future it will be necessary to combine social insurance policies with ones that create long-term pathways to economic security and social development.    From Wordnik.com.  [Revising the Poverty Measure and a Better Way to Count the Poor] Reference

In other words, these Structural and Cohesion Funds help to build the underdeveloped regions towards the level where they can be integrated into the mainstream economy, with the poor being given the possibility and ability "to jump on board the asset-building train.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Today] Reference

Funds in the American Stakeholder Account would be restricted to such asset-building uses as paying for the cost of higher education or vocational training, buying a first home, starting a small business, making investments, and, eventually, creating a nest egg for retirement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Had Enough?] Reference

Recognize that Wages Matter -- Advocates, foundations, think tanks and elected officials of varying ideological stripes have for years been promoting homeownership and asset-building as the "new" way to build wealth among "minorities", arguing that policy makers have been too fixated on wage and income disparities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Winston Griffith: Homeownership and Asset-Building Beyond the Bush Ownership Society] Reference

This Awardee carries out its mission by: conducting research and program evaluation; pioneering new credit and asset-building strategies tailored to the needs of low-income people; collecting and disseminating information to the field on best practices in microenterprise development; providing training and technical assistance to many leading organizations in the microenterprise field; and serving as a strong and effective voice for the industry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Awards For Excellence In Microenterprise Development] Reference

Reid Cramer, director of the asset-building program at the Washington-based.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Warren Backers May Now Support Other Nominees to Run Bureau - Bloomberg] Reference

The organization's initiatives focus on three areas: financial literacy, asset-building and entrepreneurship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference

Training and Technical Assistance: Advise asset-building organizations how to include consumers with disabilities in their programs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fred's Head from APH] Reference

Policy Analysis: Develop and influence federal asset-building legislation conducive to the participation of people with disabilities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fred's Head from APH] Reference

These alternative providers typically charge high fees and generally do not offer asset-building tools, such as interest-bearing deposit accounts.    From Wordnik.com.  [AllAfrica News: Latest] Reference

The nation's prolonged foreclosure crisis may have weakened political support for homeownership as an asset-building strategy for lower-income households.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Financial News] Reference

WID's Access to Assets project opens doors for the disability community by promoting asset-building and financial literacy among people with disabilities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fred's Head from APH] Reference

Sherraden was recently named to TIME Magazines annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world for his work on asset-building for low-income people.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Students and parents worry about education costs, studies reveal] Reference

These universal, long-term, asset-building accounts are seeded with public funding that grows over time with additional deposits from families themselves and interest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Business Wire Travel News] Reference

(HUD) and Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency-certified counseling agency, aims to increase self-sufficiency, financial literacy, and asset-building among low-income people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lehigh Valley Ramblings] Reference

Even with the dearth of finance-oriented training in social work schools, social workers have helped develop numerous financial-awareness and asset-building programs in recent years.    From Wordnik.com.  [WTOP / Business / Biz Stories] Reference

DSS Secretary Kristy Nichols said on Wednesday the agency has programs that focus on poverty prevention and intervention, such as food stamps, child-care assistance and asset-building.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Over the years, Levi Strauss funding has enabled EARN to expand its core services and to become a nationwide leader in asset-building policy - and now, to dramatically grow its communications work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Business Wire Travel News] Reference

To move forward in creating a more just and equitable economy that works for everyone, reinforcing vital programs and engaging women of color in asset-building must be central to all of our recovery efforts.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

MPOWER Ventures currently focuses its investment portfolio in financial services with investments in international payments, mobile payments, retail financial services and asset-building and investment products.    From Wordnik.com.  [Releases feed from RealWire]

New, "safer" investment vehicles helping to drive asset-building frenzy: "Assets are coming back to funds, swayed by innovative, more transparent investment products that give more control and liquidity to investors," he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [FinanzNachrichten.de: Aktuelle Nachrichten] Reference

MPOWER Ventures has funded companies dedicated to international payment services, mobile payments, retail financial services, and asset-building and investment products with operations in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jacksonville Business News - Local Jacksonville News | Jacksonville Business Journal] Reference

MPOWER Ventures has assembled a portfolio of companies spanning international payments, mobile payments, retail financial services, and asset-building and investment products with operations in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.    From Wordnik.com.  [Releases feed from RealWire]

Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University dedicated to promoting a better understanding of how assets and asset-building opportunities improve the well©eing and financial stability of individuals and families left out of the economic mainstream.    From Wordnik.com.  [innovations-report] Reference

IDAs match monthly family savings with public-private funds toward purchase of a home, a small business, or education-all asset-building pursuits typically reserved for those in wealthier tax brackets who typically receive thousands of dollars in tax benefits for such investments.    From Wordnik.com.  [WORLDMag.com] Reference

"We are grateful to the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation for their generous support, helping to strengthen the relationship of the College and Museum as we continue forward in our integration," said Tom Manley, president of Pacific Northwest College of Art. latest grants continue to demonstrate the Foundation's focus on supporting asset-building initiatives that promote long-term economic stability.    From Wordnik.com.  [PNCA News] Reference

A 401 (k) isn’t going to do much asset-building for the systemically underemployed.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bigger Threat Than Terrorism] Reference

"asset-building," are not counseling moderate-income, potential homebuyers to delay their purchases in these collapsing bubble markets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flagrancy to Reason] Reference

Throughout history, America’s asset-building programs have been some of the most successful federal programs—we just haven’t called them asset building.    From Wordnik.com.  [Had Enough?] Reference

He’s the director of the asset-building program at the New America Foundation—a foundation that brings a lot of smart people and new ideas into Washington.    From Wordnik.com.  [Had Enough?] Reference

100 most influential people in the world for his work on asset-building for low-income people.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Students and parents worry about education costs, studies reveal] Reference