Asset Building

A listing of content on the site related to asset building and similar topics.

Click Here to Download "Benefits Interaction Chart 2009" (MS Excel file)

 

Download AB 851 Letter of Support template (Word Format)

 

EQUITY e-newsletter: Summer 2009

Education: Increasing employment and economic opportunities for people with disabilities

EQUITY e-newsletter Summer 2007

Creating Affordable, Accessible Housing Through Collaboration

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: February 2010

Asset accumulation and economic self sufficiency for people with disabilities - the work continues

Asset Building

 

EQUITY e-newsletter: Summer 2008

Native Communities, Disability and Asset Building: working together to fight poverty on tribal lands

EQUITY e-newsletter October 2007

Mentoring: Investing in Yourself and Your Professional Future

EQUITY e-newsletter: June 2008

Taking the first steps to better your financial future!

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: Winter 2008

Microenterprise and Disability Reaching the American Dream: A report on disability, entrepreneurship, and financing

EQUITY e-newsletter: October 2008

Getting out the disability vote for Election Year 2008

EQUITY e-newsletter: September 2009

Financial planning for People with disabilities: new programs, strategies, and tools

EQUITY e-newsletter: March 2010

Microenterprise and disability: a great combination to start a business and build financial assets

EQUITY e-newsletter: November 2007

Honoring our veterans

EQUITY e-newsletter September 2007

Weed and Seed: It's Not a Project or a Program- It's a Strategy!

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: 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: April 2009

Tax Time: The perfect opportunity to start building your economic future

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 May 2007

Policy in Action: Fighting for Equitable Inclusion

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: February 2009

A retrospective: where we have been and where we are going!

EQUITY e-newsletter: November 2009

Our nation’s veterans with disabilities: building assets, starting small businesses, becoming economically self-sufficient

EQUITY e-newsletter: March 2008

Beyond the Special Needs Trust: Estate Planning and Providing for a Child with a Disability

EQUITY e-newsletter: February 2004

Introduction to Asset Building & Disability

EQUITY e-newsletter: March 2004

Public Disability Benefits & Asset Building

EQUITY e-newsletter: April 2004

Web Site Accessibility

EQUITY e-newsletter: May 2004

Entrepreneurs with Disabilities: Opportunities for Independence

EQUITY e-newsletter: June 2004

Unrealized Potential: Latinos with Disabilities and Asset Building Programs

EQUITY e-newsletter: Summer 2004

Connecting the Dots: Corporate Finance, Asset Building, and Disability Communities Working Together

EQUITY e-newsletter: September 2004

The Future Looks Bright: Youth with Disabilities Planning Their Own Destiny

EQUITY e-newsletter: October 2004

Celebrating Disability Awareness Month

EQUITY e-newsletter: November 2004

Entrepreneurial Women with Disabilities: Creating Their Own Paths

EQUITY e-newsletter: December 2004

The Future of Asset Building for People with Disabilities

EQUITY e-newsletter: January 2005

Making Tax Time Pay for People with Disabilities

EQUITY e-newsletter: Februrary 2005

Building an Inclusive Ownership Society

EQUITY e-newsletter: March 2005

People with Disabilities in Native Communities Building Assets

EQUITY e-newsletter: April 2005

Making Tax Time Pay for People with Disabilities

EQUITY e-newsletter: May 2005

State Asset Building - Financing Full Inclusion

EQUITY e-newsletter: June 2005

Microenterprise: Developing Disabled Entrepreneurs

EQUITY e-newsletter: Summer 2005

HUD's Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) Program: Saving for Economic Independence

EQUITY e-newsletter: September 2005

Building for the Future - Youth Asset Building Initiatives

EQUITY e-newsletter: October 2005

Democratizing Asset Building: Mobilizing Action in the Disability Community

EQUITY e-newsletter: November 2005

Honoring Disabled Veterans through Economic Empowerment

EQUITY e-newsletter: December 2005

Disability and Asset Building Communities Working Together

EQUITY e-newsletter: Winter 2006

Tax Time: People with Disabilities Filing, Earning, and Saving

EQUITY e-newsletter: March 2006

Self-Directed Services & Asset Building: Choosing Your Own Path to Economic Self-Sufficiency

EQUITY e-newsletter: April 2006

Pooled Special Needs Trusts: Opportunities & Challenges

EQUITY e-newsletter: May 2006

Telework: Home-based Asset Building

EQUITY e-newsletter: Summer 2006

Accessible Financial Literacy

EQUITY e-newsletter: August 2006

Community Land Trusts: Ensuring Permanently Affordable, Accessible Homeownership

EQUITY e-newsletter: September 2006

LIFE Accounts: New Options for People with Disabilities to Build Assets

EQUITY e-newsletter: October 2006

Election 2006: Mobilizing the Disability Vote

EQUITY e-newsletter: November 2006

Disabling Debt: Which Comes First?

EQUITY e-newsletter: December 2006

Oregon Asset Building: Working toward Full Inclusion

EQUITY e-newsletter: Winter 2007

Tax Time: People with Disabilities Making a Real Economic Impact

EQUITY e-newsletter: November 2008

State Based Asset Building: Program, People, and Policy

EQUITY e-newsletter: February 2008

Preparing for tax time: Real Economic Impact for people with disabilities

EQUITY e-newsletter: April 2008

True Self-Determination for People with Disabilities: Arguments for asset building and financial education

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.

Nick Ensley

Nick Ensley, in the middle, surrounded by the Rolling Stones

Ringler Associates

 

National Structured Settlement Trade Association (NSSTA)

 

Bryan Bashin

Bryan Bashin, who formerly served as Assistant Regional Commissioner for the U.S. Department of Education's Rehabilitation Services Administration and as Executive Director of the Sacramento Society for the Blind, currently is working as a management consultant and is an active member in many national organizations of the blind. In addition, he is the founder of the Sacramento-based Center for Science Reporting and Id Pro Quo Job Services, providing coaching and placement for jobseekers who are blind.

Jack Hillyard

On April 14, 2009, Jack Hillyard will begin as Director of the Bureau of Individual Supports with the Office of Long Term Living in Pennsylvania.

Urban Miyares

Urban Miyares, President, Disabled Businesspersons Association, the National Disabled Veterans Business Center (Photo by Joshua Ross, Disabled Businesspersons Association)

Mark Vogel, CSSC, Ringler Associates

 

Renae Tollman-Jones

Renae Tollman-Jones, the Boot Making Queen of Crawford

Making Home Affordable Plan

 

A Guide to PASS

 

AccountAbility Minnesota

 

Real Economic Impact Tour

 

Special Needs Alliance

 

Achieving Independence for Persons with Disabilities

 

Law Resources from Martindale.com: Lawyer Locator and Attorney Directory

 

American Bar Association: Defending Liberty, Pursuing Justice

 

Center for Self-Determination

 

The Army AW2 Soldier Connection

 

Army Retired Services

 

HireVetsFirst

 

The Veterans Business Outreach Program (VBOP)

 

HUD USER - Policy Development and Research's Information Service

 

HUD's Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Database

 

Freddie Mac

 

National Organization on Disability-Access to Independence Housing

 

People with Disabilities -HUD

 

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Rural Development

 

Aspen Institute: Initiative on Financial Security

 

Aspen Institute: Business and Society Program

 

The Family Self-Sufficiency Program: HUD's Best Kept Secret for Promoting Employment and Asset Growth- Barbara Sard

 

TANF and AFIA Funding Declaration Letter (for IDA Providers) *Produced by CFED (Word)

 

Welfare Information Network

 

Center on Hunger & Poverty Asset Building Institute

 

Administration on Developmental Disabilities (ADD)

 

National Settlement Consultants

 

Settlement Planning Associates

 

The Settlement Services Group

 

Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities Housing Task Force

 

Montana Home Choice Coalition

 

HUD's Community Planning & Development (CPD) Community Connections Information Clearinghouse

 

Urban Development Timeline

 

HUD Public Housing Authorities Index

 

Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America

 

Assets for Independence (AFI) Program

 

Federal Housing Tax Credit FAQs

 

Preserving Homeownership and Savings Education Strategy (PHASES) program

 

Mortgage Calculator

 

Women's Institute for Financial Education

 

World Wide Web Consortium Web Accessibility Initiative

 

MsMoney.com

 

HOPE NOW

 

Family Self-Sufficiency: An Asset Building Opportunity- Reid Cramer

 

The Family Self-Sufficiency Program: A Promising, Low-Cost Vehicle to Promote Savings and Asset Building for Recipients of Federal Housing Assistance- Reid Cramer & Jeff Lubell (PDF)

 

WorkWorld - Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) Program- Section 8

 

Annie E. Casey Foundation

 

Levi-Strauss & Co. Foundation

 

John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

 

W.K. Kellogg Foundation

 

The Foundation Center

 

Assets for Independence Act Summary (PDF)

 

Beach Center on Disability

 

Assets For Independence (AFI) Individual Development Accounts

 

Association for Enterprise Opportunity

 

EPS Settlements Group, Inc.

 

Bradford Settlement Company

 

Settlement Professionals

 

Understanding Structured Settlements

 

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities- Housing Policy

 

National Housing Trust Fund- National Low Income Housing Coalition

 

The State of the Nation's Cities: A Comprehensive Database on American Cities and Suburbs

 

Center for Urban Policy Research

 

Structured Financial Associates

 

AIG American General Structured Settlements

 

Atlas Settlement Group

 

Brant Hickey & Associates

 

Cambridge Galaher Settlements

 

James E. Logan & Associates, Ltd.

 

JMW Settlements

 

The Mangelsdorf Companies

 

Aviva

 

Structured Settlement Help

 

Disability Benefits 101: SSI and Work

 

Proyecto Visión

 

IBR Info: learn about new federal student loan payment and forgiveness options

 

Next Student Incorporated

 

The Federal Housing Tax Credit: How it works and how to make it work for people with disabilities

 

New America Foundation

 

Center for Social Development

 

Institute on Assets and Social Policy

 

AssetBuilding.org

 

Center for Policy Alternatives - IDAs

 

Information for Decision Making - Asset Development Programs

 

KnowledgePlex

 

Native Hawaiian Advancement

 

Hope for Homeowners

 

The Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV)

 

Student Aid on the Web

 

The Direct Loan Service center

 

Discharge Loan Forms on the Web

 

National Student Loan Data System

 

National Structured Settlement Trade Association (NSSTA)

 

Ringler Associates

 

Bridge Settlement Corporation

 

Creative Capital

 

Forge Consulting

 

The James Street Group

 

The Abilities Fund

 

Faith Based Credit Union

 

MyFico

 

Army Career and Alumni Program (ACAP)

 

Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)

 

Sentinels Of Freedom

 

7(a) Loan Guaranty Program

 

University of Iowa Law, Health Policy & Disability Center

 

IRS Economic Stimulus Payment Calculator

 

Employment Policy Group, University of Iowa

 

Prosper

 

Shared Horizons Inc.