Walter and Elise Haas Fund

For Low-income children who earn a college degree are five times more likely to move up the economic ladder. Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED) cultivates and invests in these youths' college aspirations by helping low-income families build college savings. Its 1:1 Fund is a crowd-funding platform that raises money to match families' contributions to college savings accounts. The 1:1 Fund partners with college savings programs around the country, offering innovative fundraising platform and tools for organizing social media driven funding campaigns. In 2015, the 1:1 Fund aims to double its online donations

For The Tax Policy Project, a coalition led by PolicyLink and CFED, focuses on advancing changes to the tax code that shift incentives for saving and building assets from high-wealth households to low- and moderate-income households. The Project's 2015 objectives are to develop key messages and a communications strategy; to undertake extensive public education to get more people and organizations involved in supporting asset-building tax reforms; and to coordinate the advocacy efforts of coalition groups as tax reform discussions unfold in Washington

For the Center for Responsible Lending to continue to conduct research, develop briefing materials for policymakers, testify at public hearings, and undertake consumer education to build broad public support for reforms

Continuing support

Continuing support

Conferences/seminars For Assets and Opportunity Institute in San Francisco

Program development For planning activities to create American Dream Match Fund

Seed money; Technical assistance For consultant to assist San Francisco City officials to launch a Bank on San Francisco initiative

Conferences/seminars For Visions of Ownership: San Francisco Forum

Conferences/seminars For learning conference A Life of Assets: Promoting Strategic Innovation

Program development To complete planning and begin implementation for Generation Change national model of recruitment training and support for next generation of non-profit leaders