NEW’s Policy Work in Helping Families Grow Assets
NEW’s understanding of the fundamental principle that asset accumulation is necessary for economic self-sufficiency resides at the heart of NEW’s work in wealth creation. NEW’s programs and work in the policy arena are focused on giving low-income families the knowledge and tools to accumulate, protect and grow their financial assets – allowing them to gain control over their economic future.
Experts in the field of community development have identified many strategies to help low-income families grow their assets. Among them are:
Women of Color & Wealth Symposium
First Generation Women Immigrants: Generating New Wealth, Generating a Global Economy.
NEW’s understanding of the fundamental principle that asset accumulation is necessary for economic self-sufficiency resides at the heart of NEW’s work in wealth creation. NEW’s programs and work in the policy arena are focused on giving low-income families the knowledge and tools to accumulate, protect and grow their financial assets – allowing them to gain control over their economic future.
Experts in the field of community development have identified many strategies to help low-income families grow their assets. Among them are:
- Provide financial literacy education
- Create opportunities and incentives to save
- Improve access to mainstream financial services
- Promote home ownership
- Increase or supplement earnings
- Curb predatory lending practices
- Expand access to insurance
Women of Color & Wealth Symposium
First Generation Women Immigrants: Generating New Wealth, Generating a Global Economy.
Economic Security for Women 19: Bea Stotzer from Maya Rockeymoore on Vimeo.
Bea Stotzer, NEW Board President and founding Board Member of National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders (NALCAB), speaking at the 2010 NALCAB Conference on the mission of the organization.
