When developing asset-building policy agendas, coalitions need to consider both the predisposing factors within their states and the desired or promising features of asset-building programs.  Predisposing factors may include things such as the socioeconomic status of residents, the legislative/political structure, the tax structure, and the existing statewide advocacy network.  Promising features of asset-building programs would include, for example, using Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program funds to provide the match in state IDA programs.

Join the Joint Center and the Howard University Center on Race and Wealth for a webinar with Lucy Mullany of the Illinois Asset Building Group and Melbah Smith of the Coalition for a Prosperous Mississippi as they highlight and discuss the models used by their respective state coalitions to develop asset-building policy agendas, and the role that predisposing factors and promising features have played in the process.

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