Room blocks have been arranged with the following hotels.  Book by phone and mention the Washington Asset Building Conference for special group rate.

Agenda

Hear from community leaders and national experts about starting and expanding asset building initiatives in your community.

Learn about asset building innovations and best practices to strengthen your community’s asset building pieces including:

• Savings and banking campaigns
• Individual development accounts
• Microenterprise
• Financial education and counseling
• Alternative financial services and products

Asset building is an approach to fostering financial independence.  It provides individuals with tangible incentives to save and use positive financial behaviors -- helping them gain financial success. Elements include savings and banking campaigns, home ownership, individual development accounts, micro enterprise, financial education and counseling, and affordable financial services and products.  Our present economic troubles were driven largely by bad financial choices by both our private and public institutions and individuals.  We all have our work cut out for us to change both policies and behaviors – please join us to learn how to take on this challenge.

This conference will draw together private, public and nonprofit leaders and practitioners to learn together around the range of asset building elements. Whether you are new or inexperienced in the asset building field this conference is for you. Leaders and staff from the regulatory agencies, banks and credit unions, community action and housing agencies, micro-enterprise and business development groups, low-income advocates, education and workforce organizations,  tribes, United Ways, faith-based and other nonprofit service providers are all among those who would benefit from this gathering.