Asset Support Center - Reports

Asset Building - General

Making the Most of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009: A Guide for Asset-Building Leaders

A report from The Finance Project
May, 2009, PDF file 

Outcomes Based Evaluation for Asset Building Programs

An Asset Support Center (ASC) Brief
May 2009, PDF file

EARN IDA Overview

A presentation from EARN (Earned Asset Resource Network)
2009, PDF file

Building Assets While Building Communities: Expanding Savings and Investment Opportunities for Low-Income Bay Area Residents

A report for the Walter and Elise Haas Fund
2006, PDF file

Building Wealth: The New-Asset Based Approach to Solving Social and Economic Problems

A report for the Aspen Institute
2005, PDF file

By a Thread: The New Experience of America's Middle Class

A report for Demos and IASP
2007, PDF file

Community Investments: Special Issues in Building Assets

A Publication of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
May 2005, PDF file

Sharing the Wealth: Resident Ownership Mechanisms

A PolicyLink Report
2001, PDF file

2007-2008 Assets and Opportunities Scorecard

A CFED Report
2007, URL link

Access to Mainstream Financial Services

Bank on San Francisco - Case Study

A CFED Report
2006, PDF file

Bank on San Francisco: San Francisco Bank Survey

A CFED Report
2005, PDF file

Highlights from the 2nd Annual Underbanked Financial Services Forum

A CFSI Report
2007, PDF file


Savings Opportunities

Earn it! Keep it! Save it! Campaign Reports

A Community Project of the United Way of the Bay Area
2007, URL link

Employer IDA Initiatives: The Promise of Delivering IDAs Through Employers

A CFED Report
2003, PDF file

The Family Self-Sufficiency Program: A Promising, Low-Cost Vehicle to Promote Savings and Asset Building for Recipients of Federal Housing

A New America Foundation Report
2005, PDF file

Individual Development accounts for Youth: Lessons from an Emerging Field

A CFED Report
2001, PDF file

The Role of Asset-Building Services for Community-Based Tax Preparation Programs

A Center for Economic Progress Report
2007, PDF file

Investment Opportunities

Community Benefits Agreements: "Partnership in Action: Recent Victories, future directions"

A Report by the Partnership for Working Families
2005, PDF file

Market Creek Plaza: Toward Resident Ownership of Neighborhood Change

A Policy Link Case Study
2003, URL link

Opening Opportunities, Building Ownership: Fulfilling the Promise of Microenterprise in the United States

A Report of the Aspen Institute
2007, PDF file

Shared Equity Homeownership: the Changing Landscape of Resale-Restricted, Owner-Occupied Housing

A National Housing Institute Report
2006, PDF file

Worker Cooperative Resources--Arizmendi Association of Cooperatives

URL link


Asset Preservation Strategies

Bay Area Foreclosure Resource Sheet

An Alameda Community Asset Network (Alameda CAN) Report
2007, PDF file

California Reinvestment Coalition: Various Reports on Predatory Lending

Reports for the CRC
URL link

Covering California's Kids: Outcomes from Children's Health Initiatives in California

A Report for the California Endowment (or A Center for Community Health Report?)
2007, PDF file

Subprime Spillover

A Center for Responsible Lending Report
2007, PDF file

What does it Take For a Family to Afford to Pay for Healthcare

A California Budget Project Report
2007, PDF file

Financial Education

Analyzing the Relationship Between Account Ownership and Financial Education

A New America Foundation Report
2007, PDF file

Annotated Bibliography for Financial Education Materials - NeighborhWorks

A NeighborWorks America Report
2007, PDF file

Financial Coaching: A New Approach for Asset Building

A report for the Annie E. Casey Foundation
2007, PDF file

National Endowment for Financial Education - Financial Education Evaluation Online Toolkit

URL link

National Endowment for Financial Education - White Papers on Various Topics

URL link

Port Jobs' Financial Mentoring Curriculum and Program Guide

URL link


Comprehensive Asset Building Initiatives

Assets and Neighborhoods: The Role of Individual Assets in Neighborhood Revitalization

A Fannie Mae Foundation Report
2003, PDF file

County Asset Building Coalitions

An Asset Support Center Report
2008, PDF file