Individual Wealth Preservation

2012

Foreclosure Prevention Resource Center

The Foreclosure Prevention Resource Center is an online resource of the Urban Affairs Coalition of Philadelphia, offering resources to homeowners trying to protect their homes from foreclosure and to helping professionals in the community. The site has resources such as a foreclosure prevention guide, a chart on the effects of foreclosure, and contacts with connection to foreclosure prevention.

Financial Capability Institute

Center for Financial Services Innovation

The Financial Capability Institute website is an online resource from the Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI) that provides nonprofits with resources to learn how to integrate high-quality financial mechanisms into their organization. The website offers information on the financial capability approach, nonprofit self-assesment tools, and other tools and resources to connect organizations with product partners.

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Center for Financial Services Innovation

An affiliate of the nonprofit CDFI ShoreBank, the Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI) is a national expert on financial services for the unbanked and under-banked. Its goals include improving the quality of existing services and better tailoring financial services to meet the needs and desires of the under-banked community. The ultimate goal is to facilitate savings and asset-building through financial services. Founded in 2004, CFSI focuses on 6 main areas in order to assist service providers, expand the literature, and influence public policy: Research & Strategy, Investment, Networking, Roundtables, Communication, and Public Policy.

Council for Economic Education

The Council for Economic Education is a nonprofit organization that offers comprehensive financial education curriculum to K-12 schools. The Council's programs include the basics of entrepreneurship, teacher resources, and assessment standards—reaching over 15 million students in the U.S. and more than 30 other countries each year. Its mission is to advocate better personal finance education in primary and secondary schools, as well as to empower young people through financial literacy.

Global Assets Project

The Global Assets Project, launched in 2006, is a collaborative effort of the Center for Social Development and the New America Foundation. Its ultimate goal is poverty alleviation through asset accumulation. The Global Assets Project strives to influence public policy and implement new asset-building programs through research, and attempts to integrate the key elements of microfinance, financial education, social policy and commercial financial services. There are currently asset-building initiatives in 5 continents and 14 countries around the world.

National Consumer Law Center

The National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) is the nation's leading expert on consumer law and advocates on behalf of low-income Americans who are particularly vulnerable to fraud and predatory lending. NCLC pays special attention to such vulnerable groups as the elderly, immigrants, homeowners, former welfare recipients, victims of domestic violence, and military personnel. NCLC's legal work has accomplished numerous policy milestones; for example, NCLC helped end discriminatory car loan practices that persisted for 75 years.

Modernizing Asset Limits: Promoting Savings, Simplicity, and Self-Sufficiency

New America Foundation

A project of the New American Foundation, this website is designed to help build understanding about how caps on savings that preclude receiving public assistance in the form of SNAP (Food Stamps), TANF, and LIHEAP have counterproductive effects. These can include discouraging saving, increasing financial insecurity, and making it harder to achieve financial independence for low-income families. Users of this site can search by state to better understand the complexity of asset limits for specific programs and learn how programs in their communities compare to the rest of the country.

Foreclosure Prevention Resource Center

The Foreclosure Prevention Resource Center is an online resource of the Urban Affairs Coalition of Philadelphia, offering resources to homeowners trying to protect their homes from foreclosure and to helping professionals in the community. The site has resources such as a foreclosure prevention guide, a chart on the effects of foreclosure, and contacts with connection to foreclosure prevention.

Financial Capability Institute

Center for Financial Services Innovation

The Financial Capability Institute website is an online resource from the Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI) that provides nonprofits with resources to learn how to integrate high-quality financial mechanisms into their organization. The website offers information on the financial capability approach, nonprofit self-assesment tools, and other tools and resources to connect organizations with product partners.

Center for Financial Services Innovation

An affiliate of the nonprofit CDFI ShoreBank, the Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI) is a national expert on financial services for the unbanked and under-banked. Its goals include improving the quality of existing services and better tailoring financial services to meet the needs and desires of the under-banked community. The ultimate goal is to facilitate savings and asset-building through financial services. Founded in 2004, CFSI focuses on 6 main areas in order to assist service providers, expand the literature, and influence public policy: Research & Strategy, Investment, Networking, Roundtables, Communication, and Public Policy.

Council for Economic Education

The Council for Economic Education is a nonprofit organization that offers comprehensive financial education curriculum to K-12 schools. The Council's programs include the basics of entrepreneurship, teacher resources, and assessment standards—reaching over 15 million students in the U.S. and more than 30 other countries each year. Its mission is to advocate better personal finance education in primary and secondary schools, as well as to empower young people through financial literacy.

Global Assets Project

The Global Assets Project, launched in 2006, is a collaborative effort of the Center for Social Development and the New America Foundation. Its ultimate goal is poverty alleviation through asset accumulation. The Global Assets Project strives to influence public policy and implement new asset-building programs through research, and attempts to integrate the key elements of microfinance, financial education, social policy and commercial financial services. There are currently asset-building initiatives in 5 continents and 14 countries around the world.

National Consumer Law Center

The National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) is the nation's leading expert on consumer law and advocates on behalf of low-income Americans who are particularly vulnerable to fraud and predatory lending. NCLC pays special attention to such vulnerable groups as the elderly, immigrants, homeowners, former welfare recipients, victims of domestic violence, and military personnel. NCLC's legal work has accomplished numerous policy milestones; for example, NCLC helped end discriminatory car loan practices that persisted for 75 years.

Modernizing Asset Limits: Promoting Savings, Simplicity, and Self-Sufficiency

New America Foundation

A project of the New American Foundation, this website is designed to help build understanding about how caps on savings that preclude receiving public assistance in the form of SNAP (Food Stamps), TANF, and LIHEAP have counterproductive effects. These can include discouraging saving, increasing financial insecurity, and making it harder to achieve financial independence for low-income families. Users of this site can search by state to better understand the complexity of asset limits for specific programs and learn how programs in their communities compare to the rest of the country.