ABPP Publications
The purpose of the ABPP is to promote asset building policy in Michigan and advance the policy goals and recommendations of the ABC. This page contains some of the materials, presentations and publications used by the ABPP to achieve this purpose.
ABPP Publications
- Helping Working Families Achieve Financial Security, Second Edition. This 2010 report reviews past policy and advocacy successes, outlines our core research and policy goals, and presents a plan for the future to move asset building policy forward throughout the state of Michigan.
- Full report: Helping Working Families Achieve Financial Security [853KB PDF]
- Executive summary [429KB PDF]
- 2011 Policy Agenda [197KB PDF]
- 2011 ABPP Program Information [290KB PDF]
- The ABCs of the ABPP [480KB PDF]: Brochure with a brief overview of the ABC and the ABPP
- Economic Benefits of the Earned Income Tax Credit in Michigan [658KB PDF]: Commissioned by CEDAM and the Michigan Association of United Ways; completed by the Anderson Economic Group in August 2009.
- Helping Working Families Achieve Financial Security, First Edition [1.02MB PDF]: In 2005, the Michigan Asset Building Coalition (ABC) met over a six-month period with an express purpose of creating a report outlining new and existing state policy options with the greatest potential to help working poor households build assets toward becoming more financially secure. In January 2006, the ABPP released this report.
PowerPoint Presentations
Misc
- Asset Building Basics [394KB PDF] (from a Voices for Action event)
- Asset Building Across the Nation [484KB PDF] (from an October 2010 Comprehensive Community Development Institute training)
MI Affordable Housing Conference 2011
- Save to Win presentation [481KB PDF]
MI Affordable Housing Conference 2010
- Access all Handouts from the Asset Building Track at conference
- Microenterprised Development for Urban & Rural Communities [PDFs] 1, 2, 3
MI Affordable Housing Conference 2009
- Asset Building in Today’s Economy: the Challenges and Opportunities for Innovative Solutions
- Empowered Employees RUs
- IDA 2010: An Interactive Workshop on IDAs to Strengthen Michigan’s Urban and Rural Communities
- Leave No Stone Unturned – A Coordinated Access and Delivery Tool for Public Benefits
- IDeAs for Match Saving Accounts
- Growing Entrepreneurial Communities and Jobs for the New Economy
- Access to Higher Education is More than a Campaign Slogan
- Financial Education: What Works, What Doesn’t and What can be Done to Increase Financial Literacy
- Leave No Dollar Behind: Maximizing the EITC for Michigan’s Families and Communities
- Making Money by Servicing Low-Income Communities
- Michigan Asset Building Coalition Meeting
October ABC Meeting 2008
- West Michigan TEAM [583KB PDF]
- Alliance for Economic Inclusion [240KB PDF]
June ABC Meeting 2008
- Microenterprise [220KB PDF]
- Power Storytelling [84KB PDF]
- CWF Center for Working Families [345KB PDF]
MI Affordable Housing Conference 2008
- Asset Building Basics by ABPP [468KB PDF]
- MI Scorecard by CFED [631KB PDF]
- Microenterprise by LISC [100KB PDF]
Press Releases
- Michigan Asset Building Coalition Releases Second Edition of Helping Working Families Achieve Financial Security (June 24, 2010) [126KB PDF]
Michigan Statistics
Suggestions, recommendations & requests, or for more information, contact:
Ross H. Yednock, Director, ABPP
517.485.3588
yednock@cedam.info
Updated February 21, 2011