Our Approach
The Insight Center has developed a portfolio of initiatives designed to foster the development of more equitable asset building policies, increase the economic security of low-income people, and help make women-and minority-owned businesses more competitive. The Insight Center helps strengthen and expand the asset building field through the following activities:
- Increasing the reach and impact of experts of color in the national asset policy dialogue
- Improving and expanding saving strategies to reach a broader portion of the population
- Promoting and crafting program designs and policy models to grow minority businesses
- Facilitating the investment of private capital to benefit low-income communities
- Providing and increasing legal and operational support to community organizations
Key Project and Initiatives
Closing the Racial Wealth Gap
- Working to increase the impact of people of color in asset policy, practice and research; developing a public policy agenda and communications effort that will raise this issue to national prominence, and create the impetus for policy change
Inclusive Business Initiative
- Supporting minority – and women – owned business development through research, policy analysis, and partnerships with public, private, and nonprofit sectors
Community Asset Building
- Researching and advising nonprofit economic-development corporations on social-enterprise creation and replication strategies, worker-owned cooperatives, and second-tier service cooperatives, especially among immigrant communities or in rural areas
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Customized Services
- Design small-business development policy and programs, including affirmative marketing and procurement, and financing for minority- and women-owned businesses
- Research community and family savings and asset building strategies, including feasibility, scalability, case studies, and best practices
- Consult on the start-up or replication of worker-owner cooperatives, especially in new immigrant communities
- Research sector-based investment and support strategies for minority- and women-owned business and small-business development
- Consult on alternative financial products, such as payday lending
- Provide strategic planning for foundations