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Wealth-Building - The Wealth Gap - Financial/Economic
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Reports, Articles, Etc.
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Initiatives / Websites
Ariel Mutual
Funds
Ariel/Schwab
Surveys – African Americans and Investing - 1998-2004
CNBC News: "Ariel Community Academy 6th Graders -
Veteran Investors!"
Black Business Network - Drumbeats Magazine
Black
Enterprise – Black Wealth Initiative
Black Enterprise – Wealth-building Books,
Etc.
Black
Enterprise - 2004 Financial Empowerment Seminar
Series
Black Entertainment Television (BET) and
America Saves – ‘Black America Saves’ Initiative.
Black American Personal Wealth: Current
Status. Report. Stephen Brobeck. Consumer
Federation of America. August 2002.
Black Americans Hold Much Less Wealth Than Other
Americans.
Press Release. Consumer Federation of America,
Washington, D.C., August 29, 2002
'Black America Saves' Initiative Heats Up. Stacy Gilliam. BET.com. August 30, 2002.
Blackmoney.com
Blackstocks.com
Blackstocks
Development Corporation
Black Wealth Initiative - BlackBusinessList.Com
Black Wealth Network -
SBK Brooks Investment Corporation & SaveDaily.com
BlackWealthNow.com
Black Wealth
Online
Building
Wealth Tour.
National Black Chamber of Commerce,
in association with
Lord
Abbett &
New York Life
Coalition of Black
Investors
Congressional Black Caucus
Foundation, Inc. - With Ownership, Wealth (WOW) Initiative
With Ownership, Wealth (WOW).
Reps. Eddie Bernice Johnson and William Jefferson
2004
CBCF Financial Freedom Challenge
Creative Investment
Research
minorityfinance.com
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. - Homeownership
Initiative
Finance and the
African American Family (FAAF) – Blackwealth.com
Initiative for a
Competitive Inner City (ICIC)
Jump$tart Coalition for Personal
Financial Literacy
Minoritywealth.com
NAACP
& Bank of America - Financial Empowerment Initiative
National Black
United Fund - A Trust For The Future Campaign
National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, Household
International & and the National Council on Economic Education -
Financial Literacy Project
National Foundation For Teaching
Entrepreneurship (NFTE)
National Urban League (NUL) - Economic Self-Sufficiency
Programs
National Urban League (NUL) & Altria Group, Inc. - Know
Your Money™ Program
U.S.: Citigroup and the National Urban League Announce
National Partnership to Improve Financial Education in Communities They
Serve. July 16, 2004
National Urban League (NUL)
& Investment Company Institute (ICI) Education Foundation – ‘Investing
for Success’ Campaign
National Urban League, ICI Education Foundation Launch
Investing for Success Campaign. Press
Release. Washington, DC. May 18, 2000.
National Urban
League / Stonehenge Capital Empowerment Fund
Press Release: Stonehenge Capital and National Urban League
to Form $127.5 Million Community Investment Fund. May 6, 2004.
1000
Churches Connected
"Lifting blacks' faith in the markets". Dina Temple-Raston. The New York Times.
December 8, 2002. Jesse Jackson-led One Thousand Churches Connected
works to get African Americans to invest in the
markets.
Operation HOPE,
Inc.
Operation HOPE and Citigroup Announce Partnership in the
"Banking on Our Future" Financial Literacy Program. April 21, 2004. Washington, DC.
Banking on Our Future in Atlanta! ING and Operation Hope,
Inc., Unite to Teach Inner-City Kids the ABCs of Managing
Money. Banking class in Atlanta schools
empowers young people with the skills they need to manage their
financial futures. Atlanta, May 19,
2004.
New
America Foundation - Asset Building Program
Assetbuilding.org
Building Assets: Creating a Culture of Savers and Investors. Ray
Boshara and Anne Stuhldreher. California Journal. New America Foundation.
January 1, 2005
Use
Tax Refunds to Help Americans Save. Anne Stuhldreher and Reid Cramer.
The Christian Science Monitor. December 30, 2004
Achieving A More Inclusive Ownership Society. Reid Cramer. The San
Diego Union Tribune. October 29, 2004
Savings
Policy for the Poor: Can the Poor Become Part of an Ownership Society?
New America Foundation. November 19, 2004
The
Widening Wealth Gap: How The Recession and Jobless Recovery Are Affecting
Hispanic Households. New America Foundation. October 28, 2004
Bootstrap
Capitalism: Expanding Assets, Financial Services, and Opportunity in
Low-Income Communities. New America Foundation. September 17, 2004
Policy Options to Encourage Savings and Asset Building by Low-Income
Americans. Ray Boshara and Reid Cramer. New America Foundation.
January 28, 2004
Financing Strategies for Learning and Asset Development. Ray Boshara
and Reid Cramer. New America Foundation. October 1, 2003. While the
evidence strongly suggests that assets are worth accumulating for both
economic and social reasons, this begs the question, how can the poor
possibly accumulate assets? To answer this question, we closely examine
the U.S. experience with Individual Development Accounts (IDAs), which has
demonstrated the potential of the poor to save and build assets.
Net Worth at Birth: Creating a National System for Savings and Asset
Building with American Stakeholder Accounts. Reid Cramer, Research
Director, Asset Building Program, New America Foundation.
Related Links
America Saves.
Consumer Federation of America
America Saves: Newspaper Stories – Local Campaigns
Association of African American Financial Advisors
Financial Empowerment Clearinghouse – New York State Banking Department
National
Association of Investors Corp.
National Partnership
for Financial Empowerment (NPFE)
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