Building a Lifetime of Economic Security: Mobilizing for Change

Building a Lifetime of Economic Security: Mobilizing for Chang

Financial Facts from the SEED for Oklahoma Kids Child Development Account Experiment: 2007–2019

How does a Child Development Account (CDA) opened at a child’s birth shape their access to assets for higher education? This Fact Sheet highlights findings from Financial Outcomes in a Child Development Account Experiment: Full Inclusion, Success Regardless of Race or Income, and Investment Growth for All (CSD Research Summary 21-06). Products of the SEED for Oklahoma Kids (SEED OK) experiment, both the Fact Sheet and the Research Summary indicate that the automatic CDA in SEED OK greatly increases the likelihood that disadvantaged children have assets for their future education. When given a CDA structure and support for accumulating assets, all racial groups build assets. The statistically significant CDA effects do not vary by race. Evidence featured in this Fact Sheet suggests the role of policy structure in strategies for broadening financial inclusion and access to higher education

MIS IDA Operations Manual: Management Information System for Individual Development Accounts

MIS IDA Operations Manual: Management Information System for Individual Development Account

FCAB Africa: Advancing Financial Stability, Security, and Well-Being

In sub-Saharan Africa, mobile phones and financial technology have opened doors to financial inclusion for millions, but the new financial terrain is uneven ground fraught with risks. High fees, aggressive marketing, mounting personal debt, varied digital access, and nascent regulatory structures heighten vulnerability and threaten hard-won progress toward broad financial inclusion. Financial Capability and Asset Building in Africa, or FCAB Africa, will equip human-service professionals to broaden financial stability, security, and well-being in sub-Saharan Africa, developing the financial capability of service populations and cultivating sound financial strategies. The initiative will also work with financial-service providers to create a comprehensive financial-development program delivered through existing services, including fintech. This Fact Sheet describes the goals of the FCAB Africa initiative and strategy for achieving the

Defining Civic Service: A Global Perspective

Defining Civic Service: A Global Perspectiv

National Youth Service

National Youth Servic

Broad and Deep: The Extensive Learning Agenda in YouthSave

Broad and Deep: The Extensive Learning Agenda in YouthSav

College Success and College Savings Plan Innovations: A Summary of Research

This paper summarizes CSD publications that resulted from this research and policy work. As a group, these publications demonstrate the scope of CSD’s work in this area from 2009 to present, and yield important insights for policy testing and future research

Inquiry, Innovation, & Impact: Report to the Community

Inquiry, Innovation, & Impact: Report to the Communit

The Basics of Progressive 529s

The Basics of Progressive 529