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Children’s Savings Accounts

Michael Sherraden headshot.
One of the mothers in Oklahoma said, ‘You know, the state of Oklahoma thinks my girl should go to college.’ This is the kind of impact we don’t usually measure in social policy.” Michael Sherraden
Founding director, Center for Social Development, George Warren Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis
Treasurer Jose Cisneros headshot.
When we talk about children’s savings accounts, it’s easy to think of them as just financial tools. But Mott understood something deeper from the very beginning.” José Cisneros
Treasurer, City and County of San Francisco
William Elliot headshot.
If you want to understand the modern history of children’s savings accounts in the United States, you simply have to track the support provided by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.”
William Elliot III
Founder, Center on Assets, Education, and Inclusion, University of Michigan
Robert Friedman headshot.
The Foundation’s support was instrumental in creation of Corporation for Enterprise [Development], Prosperity Now, also the microenterprise field, the in-state grassroots economic development fields, the asset development field for adults, and then children’s accounts ... I think running through all of those was a fundamental respect for the productive capacity and genius of common people.”
Robert E. Friedman
Founder and chair emeritus, Prosperity Now
Colleen Quint headshot.
We really have the opportunity to weave those threads together and think about how not only to grow and sustain the field, but to ensure that every child has the benefit — not only of the dollars, but of the knowledge that they matter and that their future matters.”
Colleen Quint
President and CEO, Alfond Scholarship Foundation