NC Asset Building Policy Task Force

History

Policy task force meeting

Following the 2005 NC Statewide Financial Education and Asset Building Conference, EITC Carolinas (an initiative of MDC, Inc.), the IDA and Asset Building Collaborative of NC, and other partners met to discuss the creation of the NC Asset Building Policy Task Force.  In June 2006, the first Task Force meeting was held in Raleigh, and since then the Task Force has met on a regular basis.

Purpose

  • To develop a common framework that can tie diverse asset building policy pieces together;
  • To give these efforts greater visibility on a local, statewide, and national level; and
  • To strengthen our mutual efforts to see new or expanded asset building policies and program initiatives implemented.

Goals

  • Identify state policies to support asset building for North Carolina families
  • Prioritize policy initiatives that have promise of implementation
  • Write a report on state asset building policies issued by the Task Force
  • Undertake education and outreach using the report as a framework
  • Learn more about each others' work and issues
  • Identify useful program models in addition to policy
  • Design and implement demonstration projects

Subcommittees

Earn It (Asset Accumulation)
Keep It (Asset Preservation/Protection)
Make It Grow (Asset Leveraging)
Assets for Persons with Disabilities
Research

Past Meetings

June 2006
December 2006
January 2007
April 2007
August 2007
September 2007

Upcoming Meetings

July 22, 2008, from 10-1, at the
Location: NC Bar Association, 8000 Westin Parkway, Cary NC

Past Meetings

January 29, 2008 - Full Task Force Meeting (10 am -1 pm)
Location: Office of the NC Association of CPAs, 3100 Gateway Centre Blvd., Morrisville, NC 27560

March 13, 2008 - Executive Steering Committe Conference call (10-11 am)

April 2008 - Full Task Force Meeting (10 am - 1 pm)
Location: TBA

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the following organizations for their financial and technical assistance support of the work of the Task Force:

Annie E. Casey Foundation
Center for Social Development, Washington University in St. Louis
CFED
Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation
North Carolina Council on Developmental Disabilities
Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation