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EQUITY e-newsletter: March 2010
Microenterprise and disability: a great combination to start a business and build financial assets
Feature
A biennial review of advancement in microenterprise for people with disabilities isn’t as positive as one would have hoped. We’re in a stall pattern that is unfortunate - but not uncorrectable.
Program of the Month
Check out the Disability Supplier Diversity Program – A Program of the U.S. Business Leadership Network and how it can help your business
Profile of the Month
Serving the health club industry in Lincoln, Omaha, and surrounding areas since 1990, Upholstery Rescue's mobile service provides onsite repairs that assist businesses in keeping their facilities comfortable and looking great!
Tip of the Month
Tip: Business ideas don’t have to be innovative to be good. Read on – it may just be the opposite of what you think you are going to read.
EQUITY Responds: WID Answers Your Questions
I’m getting ready to start a business and know that I will need to apply for credit. I don’t understand what factors impact my credit score.
Past Issues
EQUITY e-newsletter: March 2010
Microenterprise and disability: a great combination to start a business and build financial assets
EQUITY e-newsletter: February 2010
Asset accumulation and economic self sufficiency for people with disabilities - the work continues
EQUITY e-newsletter: December 2009
Federal Policy Update: This month's EQUITY examines some of the disability and asset building progress in 2009
EQUITY e-newsletter: November 2009
Our nation’s veterans with disabilities: building assets, starting small businesses, becoming economically self-sufficient
EQUITY e-newsletter: October 2009
October is disability employment month. This month’s EQUITY examines the power of mentoring to secure and improve employment for people with disabilities.
EQUITY e-newsletter: September 2009
Financial planning for People with disabilities: new programs, strategies, and tools
EQUITY e-newsletter: Summer 2009
Education: Increasing employment and economic opportunities for people with disabilities
EQUITY e-newsletter: June 2009
This month's EQUITY provides a number of foreclosure avoidance strategies as well as first time home-buying opportunities perfect for people with disabilities.
EQUITY e-newsletter May 2009
Credit: what it is, how to get it, and how to keep it!
This month's EQUITY looks at the use and role of credit during this unprecedented economic downturn. How did we get here, and how can Americans escape these profligate ways!
EQUITY e-newsletter: April 2009
Tax Time: The perfect opportunity to start building your economic future
EQUITY e-newsletter: March 2009
Bailouts and Back Street: This month's EQUITY looks at asset building efforts before, during, and after the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
EQUITY e-newsletter: Winter 2008
Microenterprise and Disability Reaching the American Dream: A report on disability, entrepreneurship, and financing
EQUITY e-newsletter: September 2008
This month, EQUITY examines recent Federal policy efforts to encourage asset building across the United States. From housing to savings to retirement, this issue of EQUITY illustrates cutting edge policy issues for people with disabilities.
EQUITY e-newsletter: Summer 2008
Native Communities, Disability and Asset Building: working together to fight poverty on tribal lands
EQUITY e-newsletter: April 2008
True Self-Determination for People with Disabilities: Arguments for asset building and financial education
EQUITY e-newsletter: March 2008
Beyond the Special Needs Trust: Estate Planning and Providing for a Child with a Disability
EQUITY e-newsletter: February 2008
Preparing for tax time: Real Economic Impact for people with disabilities
EQUITY e-newsletter: December 2007
Asset Building and Disability Communities Working Together:
Asset building while still receiving benefits?
Yes it’s possible, and this year end issue of EQUITY shows you how.
EQUITY e-newsletter: April 2007
Including People with Developmental Disabilities in the Ownership Society
EQUITY e-newsletter: March 2007
Supporting Recovery for People with Mental Illness through Building Assets
EQUITY e-newsletter: September 2006
LIFE Accounts: New Options for People with Disabilities to Build Assets
EQUITY e-newsletter: August 2006
Community Land Trusts: Ensuring Permanently Affordable, Accessible Homeownership
EQUITY e-newsletter: March 2006
Self-Directed Services & Asset Building: Choosing Your Own Path to Economic Self-Sufficiency
EQUITY e-newsletter: October 2005
Democratizing Asset Building: Mobilizing Action in the Disability Community
EQUITY e-newsletter: Summer 2005
HUD's Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) Program: Saving for Economic Independence
EQUITY e-newsletter: November 2004
Entrepreneurial Women with Disabilities: Creating Their Own Paths
EQUITY e-newsletter: September 2004
The Future Looks Bright: Youth with Disabilities Planning Their Own Destiny
EQUITY e-newsletter: Summer 2004
Connecting the Dots: Corporate Finance, Asset Building, and Disability Communities Working Together
EQUITY e-newsletter: June 2004
Unrealized Potential: Latinos with Disabilities and Asset Building Programs