- Program Education
- Program Area Graduating High School College & Career Ready
- Grant Amount $400,000
- Grant Period January 1, 2008–December 31, 2009
- Location Washington, DC, United States
- Geographic Focus United States
About this grant
New America Foundation’s Asset Building Program seeks to broaden the ownership of assets in America, especially among low- and moderate-income households, thereby providing all Americans with both the means to get ahead and a direct stake in the success of our economy. To achieve this goal, the program works in three areas: policy research and development, communications and information dissemination, and policymaker education. With Foundation support, the grantee will continue to: 1) generate new knowledge about the benefits of broadly shared wealth; 2) attract new audiences to asset-building concepts through media and communications efforts; 3) create new constituents for asset building among policymakers and other high profile public figures and opinionmakers; and 4) create and advance new policies to help low-income Americans build assets.