Welcome to The Assets Moment Live Blog, the official home for updates about the 2010 Assets Learning Conference. This journal will refresh automatically with updates during and after this Plenary Session. If you have questions, contact Sean Luechtefeld at sluechtefeld@cfed.org or 850.559.4055. If you want to join the conversation, simply use the comments section below to respond to any of the posts during the session.
Seven Elements of the State of Our Field
Posted on 09/22/2010 @ 03:49 PM
Seven thoughts for building the Save & Invest Economy:
Expose and reallocate the federal asset budget.
Make tax time the on-ramp to savings and financial security.
Integrate asset building into the great revenue stream of our time.
Engage Children’s Savings Accounts as a new route to financial stability.
Build an online marketplace to match and sell savings.
Let us claim the social innovation banner on behalf of the assets field.
It’s time to create a global learning community.
Stay Tuned for More!
Posted on 09/22/2010 @ 03:46 PM
We’ll keep this live blog here until tomorrow’s Breakfast Plenary, where I’ll again be live blogging all the action. This Plenary Live Blog, and the others, will be archived at The Assets Movement, the official blog of #ALC2010. Stay tuned!
Now is the Time
Posted on 09/22/2010 @ 03:41 PM
It is time we create an infrastructure for financial security that integrates funding, marketing and matched savings.
Affordable Homeownership
Posted on 09/22/2010 @ 03:26 PM
“We’re looking at a game-changing policy event” in the HomeStar Energy Bill, which will give low-income homeowners the ability to replace their unsafe, energy inefficient manufactured homes with greener, cleaner, safer manufactured homes. This is a critical moment for homeowners.
State of the Field
Posted on 09/22/2010 @ 03:24 PM
Andrea Levere is delivering her State of the Field address. What are the different components of our collective work that should dictate how we move forward in our efforts to optimize the Assets Movement at its Moment? What public policies and community practices can help push forward the Save & Invest Economy?
Five Pillars
Posted on 09/22/2010 @ 03:20 PM
The Five Pillars for Creating the Save & Invest Economy: Learn, Earn, Save, Invest, Protect
Levere Sums it up Best
Posted on 09/22/2010 @ 03:18 PM
How is it our moment? And, how do we leverage it?
Good Question
Posted on 09/22/2010 @ 03:17 PM
What DOES it take to build and sustain nonprofit organizations that have the potential to expand economic opportunity? Let’s work together this week to find out.
An Interesting Reflection
Posted on 09/22/2010 @ 03:15 PM
It was only two days after the closing of the 2008 Assets Learning Conference when Lehman Brothers collapsed, sending the economy spiraling into despair. What a different world we lived in then. Six weeks later, President Obama was elected. The world changed again. – A. Levere, CFED President
The Assets Movement at THIS Moment
Posted on 09/22/2010 @ 03:13 PM
Seven thoughts for building the Save & Invest Economy:
Expose and reallocate the federal asset budget.
Make tax time the on-ramp to savings and financial security.
Integrate asset building into the great revenue stream of our time.
Engage Children’s Savings Accounts as a new route to financial stability.
Build an online marketplace to match and sell savings.
Let us claim the social innovation banner on behalf of the assets field.
It’s time to create a global learning community.
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