Other Resources

GENERAL ASSET BUILDING RESOURCES

Texas asset-building data base - Find asset building programs in Texas

CFED Assets and Opportunity Scorecard for Texas

Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED)

New America Foundation, Asset Building Program

Center for Social Development (at Washington University)

Institute on Assets and Social Policy (at Brandeis University)

 

CREATING JOBS

National Skills Coalition

ACCION Texas

PeopleFund

 

INCREASING INCOME

Credit Builders Alliance

 

IDAs

Assets for Independence Program (AFI)

 

Free Tax Preparation

National Community Tax Coalition (a project of the Center for Economic Progress)

 

Expanding Financial Services for the Underbanked

Bank On Central Texas

The Center for Financial Services Innovation

 

Predatory Lending

Stop Payday Abuse

Center for Responsible Lending

 

PROMOTING SAVINGS

Save Together

Texas Saves

EARN

D2D Fund

 

College Savings

Texas 529 College Savings Plans

College Savings Foundation

College Savings Initiative

Savings for College

 

Financial Education

Texas Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy

The IBAT Education Foundation (Texas)

Texas Department of Banking

Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy

Jump$tart Coalition Clearinghouse

National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE)

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Personal Financial Education resources

 

Employer Efforts

Texas$aver - Retirement savings program for Texas state employees

 

ADVOCACY

RAISE Texas

 

POLICY/LAW

Aspen Institute, Initiative on Financial Security

Center for Public Policy Priorities (Texas)

National Consumer Law Center

Texas Appleseed

 

 

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Opportunity Texas Updates

OpportunityTexas is hiring for an AmeriCorps VISTA position!

CPPP releases new paper on strengthening adult basic education to prepare Texans for good careers.

Check out a 30 minute conversation with our own Don Baylor which aired on KACV-TV: Public Television for the Texas Panhandle on Jan. 17! Don talks about poverty in Texas and what it really takes for Panhandle families to get by. This interview preceded the airing of Center for Public Policy Priorities' A Fighting Chance documentary on KACV.

The Smarter Texans Save financial education research study launched in Amarillo on January 10th! Check out the press release and KFDA news story.

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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