Discover financial empowerment resources
Discover financial empowerment resources
Individual development accounts (IDAs) help low-income families save by matching their personal savings for specific investments, such as a first home, business capitalization, or higher education and training. The Assets for Independence (AFI) program is a federally supported IDA grant program...
This overview paper broadly outlines the types of strategies being used to help people move up from poverty. It lays out basic categories for classifying such programs, explains the logic of various approaches, and offers some broad pros and cons of various types of interventions. The accompanying...
While financial coaching is becoming more widely implemented, the practice components have not been described in ways that make the field of financial coaching consistent and uniform. To better understand how financial coaching is especially relevant for empowering low-income clients, this brief...