America Saves is a nationwide campaign in which a broad coalition of nonprofit, corporate, and government groups helps individuals and families save and build wealth. Through information, advice, and encouragement, America Saves assists those who wish to pay down debt, build an emergency fund, save for a home, save for an education, or save for retirement.

The Initiative on Financial Security (IFS) is a program of the Aspen Institute that was founded in 2003 in response to the growing asset crisis in the United States. IFS uses a business-driven approach to create smart solutions that help Americans save, invest, and own.

The Assets Alliance is a membership organization of experienced professionals from the Individual Development Account and asset-building fields. Ranging from all regions of the United States, Alliance members have direct practice experience, deliver training and technical assistance at local, state, regional, and national levels and are dedicated to growing the asset development field.

The Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI) develops and distributes real-world tested research and strategies, provides funding to promising companies, and facilitates cross-sector business collaboration. CFSI works with banks, credit unions, technology vendors, alternative service providers, consumer advocates and policy makers to forge the pioneering relationships, products and strategies that will transform industry practice and the lives of underbanked consumers across the economic, geographic and cultural spectrum.

The Center for Responsible Lending (CRL) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and policy organization dedicated to protecting homeownership and family wealth by working to eliminate abusive financial practices. CRL is affiliated with Self-Help, one of the nation's largest community development financial institutions.

The Center for Social Development (CSD) is a research and policy center based at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis. Since 1994, CSD has focused on social development research that informs how individuals, families, and communities increase capacity, formulate and reach life goals, and contribute to the economy and society.

CFED believes that expanding economic opportunity to include all people will bring greater social equity, alleviate poverty and lead to a more sustainable economy. As a leader in economic development for more than two decades, CFED collaborates with diverse partners at the national, regional, state and local levels.

Since 1968, the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) has provided consumers a well-reasoned and articulate voice in decisions that affect their lives. Day in and out, CFA's professional staff gathers facts, analyzes issues, and disseminates information to the public, policymakers, and rest of the consumer movement.

 

D2D Fund seeks to expand access to financial services, especially asset building opportunities, for low-income families by creating, testing and deploying innovative financial products and services.

D2D works with the financial services industry, national non-profit groups, grassroots community agencies, and public policy organizations to generate promising ideas, pilot test systems and programs, build awareness of the needs and potential of low-income communities, and advocate progressive social and economic policy.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s (FDIC) Division of Supervision and Consumer Protection’s Community Affairs Program assists financial institutions in developing strategies that are responsive to the credit, service and investment needs of their communities by:

• Fostering initiatives that move unbanked and underserved consumers into mainstream banking relationships
• Promoting community development partnerships and access to capital in historically underserved markets
• Collaborating on community development and asset-building projects and
• Developing products and presenting training programs on financial education.