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CFED's 30th Anniversary Video

This special Anniversary video takes a look at three decades of expanding economic and social justice in this country and around the world and also how CFED is creating the future of economic opportunity. We spotlight three people who have benefited from our work.

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CFED's 30th Anniversary Video

This special Anniversary video takes a look at three decades of expanding economic and social justice in this country and around the world and also how CFED is creating the future of economic opportunity. We spotlight three people who have benefited from our work.

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Innovation Summit 2009

"Creating the Future of Economic Opportunity", October 29, 2009 Innovation Summit

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The story of the SEED Initiative

Like seeds, savings grow. And with them grow confidence, competence, connections, and capital — the elements of development. So — like seeds — what starts small and unprepossessing gradually becomes significant and profound.

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CBS News Highlights IDA Accounts and CFED

Just under 70 percent of American families own their homes. But it can be awfully tough for many working Americans who live paycheck-to-paycheck to save enough for that all-important down payment.

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  • Vote for CFED!

    CFED is competing in a national online-voting campaign called Giving Made Simple for a $1 million grant from Sam's Club. Watch this short video to see how we would help 100,000 self-employed Americans start their business off right if we won. And then go to www.samsclub.com/giving and vote for CFED!

  • SEED as a National Policy

    The primary objective of the SEED Initiative is to set the stage for universal, progressive American policy for asset building among children, youth, and families. This video explores the rationale behind providing an account at birth for every child in America.

  • 2009 Innovation Summit: Plenary 3.4 Next Steps

    Next Steps

  • 2009 Innovation Summit: Plenary 3.3 Closing Remarks by Andrea Levere

    Closing Remarks by Andrea Levere

  • 2009 Innovation Summit: Plenary 3.2 Results of the Design Challenges

    Innovators and leaders report out the results of several innovation design challenges that were completed as part of the 2009 Innovation Summit.

  • 2009 Innovation Summit: Plenary 3.1 Innovators-in-Residence Reflect on the Summit

    Two of CFED's Innovators-in-Residence reflect on their day at the Innovation Summit, including valuable take-aways, new questions and insights generated.

  • 2009 Innovation Summit: Announcement by Clayton Homes & Frontier Housing

    Announcement by Clayton Homes & Frontier Housing

  • 2009 Innovation Summit: Plenary 1.3 Michele Jolin

    Michele Jolin, Senior Advisor for Social Innovation at The White House, outlines the Administration's innovation agenda, several exciting opportunities and ways in which individuals and networks of innovators can be engaged.

  • 2009 Innovation Summit: Plenary 2.7 Langdon Morris...part 3

    Langdon Morris, of Innovation Labs, outlines innovation as a systematic process to solve problems with very high levels of creativity and collaboration.

  • 2009 Innovation Summit: 21 Top Innovators

    Meet the 21 top Innovators selected by CFED. Hear their voices as they describe their motivations, goals, and innovations that increase economic opportunity for all Americans.

  • 2009 Innovation Summit: Plenary 2.7 Langdon Morris...part 2

    Langdon Morris, of Innovation Labs, outlines innovation as a systematic process to solve problems with very high levels of creativity and collaboration.

  • 2009 Innovation Summit: Plenary 2.6 Langdon Morris

    Langdon Morris, of Innovation Labs, outlines innovation as a systematic process to solve problems with very high levels of creativity and collaboration.

  • 2009 Innovation Summit: Plenary 2.3 Instant Polling

    Ian Rowe polls the audience of innovators on "common goals" the role of youth, and a vision for retaking world leadership in college completion.

  • 2009 Innovation Summit: Plenary 2.2 Ian Rowe...continued

    Ian Rowe, of the Gates Foundation, makes a case for bold aspirational goals. Specifically: Retaking World Leadership in College Completion

  • 2009 Innovation Summit: Plenary 2.1 Ian Rowe

    Ian Rowe, of the Gates Foundation, makes a case for bold aspirational goals. Specifically: Retaking World Leadership in College Completion

  • 2009 Innovation Summit: Plenary 1.2 Geeta Rao Gupta

    Geeta Rao Gupta, president of the International Center for Research on Woman, recounts the benefits of Innovation for her family, and draws lessons for the transformative impact of innovation in the developing world.

  • 2009 Innovation Summit: Plenary 1.1 Andrea Levere

    Andrea Levere, President of CFED, opens the Innovation Summit with a call to collaborative action and a warm introduction for Geeta Rao Gupta.

  • 2009 Innovation Summit: Innovators on Stage

    Each of CFED's Top 21 Innovators at the Innovation Summit present their ideas.

  • Building Real Communities with Real Assets

  • Breakfast with Accountholders

  • Living with a Hole in Your Pocket

  • Saving for the Future

    Savers in the SEED (Savings for Education, Entrepreneurship and Downpayment) Initiative talk about saving for their future.

  • SEED Families

    Families in the SEED (Savings for Education, Entrepreneurship and Downpayment) Initiative talk about the importance of the program

  • SEED Savers in Puerto Rico

    Students at an elementary school in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico have been saving for their futures in the Savings for Education, Entrepeneurship and Downpayment (SEED) initiative. For more information visit http://seed.cfed.org.

  • SEED as an Investment

    Two of the visionaries behind the SEED Initiative -- Bob Friedman, founder of CFED, and Michael Sherraden, founder of the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis, sit down in Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia to discuss why an account at birth is an investment in families, communities, and ultimately the country. SEED is a "GI Bill for the 21st Century but for everybody."

  • SEED Sidewalk Interviews

    Our video crews interviewed people on the streets of Philadelphia and St. Louis to get their take on the idea of endowing every child with a nest egg at birth. Their reactions are captured in this short video clip.

  • What is SEED?

    The Saving for Education, Entrepreneurship and Downpayment (SEED) Policy and Practice Initiative seeks to develop, test, document and promote progressive matched savings accounts and financial education for children and youth in low-income families as a cost-effective anti-poverty strategy, product, and policy.

  • SEED: Families Saving Together

    What difference would it make if every child in America grew up knowing that she or he had a nest egg to go to college, buy a home, or start a business? This video explores some of the benefits that individuals, families, and communities have gained through the SEED program.

  • SEED: Saving for Education, Entrepreneurship and Downpayment

    SEED: Saving for Education, Entrepreneurship and Downpayment

  • IDA Saver Speaks on Capitol Hill

    A graduate of the Individual Development Account program at the Capital Area Asset Builders tells his story at CFED's Assets and Opportunity Scorecard Briefing on Capitol Hill on October 5, 2007

  • SEED Video

  • CFED's 30th Anniversary Video

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