Welcome to Asset Funders Network
The Asset Funders Network is a community of foundations supporting organizations, programs, policies, and strategies which help low-wealth individuals accumulate assets, build their net worth, and become owners and stakeholders in their communities.
The Asset Funders Network was formed in April 2005 by a group of leading foundations in the field of asset building. The Asset Funders Network explores a range of asset-building tools and strategies, such as savings and investment vehicles, retirement security, homeownership, higher education, and self-employment, with the goal of helping philanthropy understand the most effective and proven strategies to pursue in the asset-building field.
Asset Funders Network Purpose
The purpose of the Network is to help its members make better strategic funding decisions by sharing successful strategies for increasing ownership of high-return assets and promoting access to the tools and support needed to build wealth.
The Network provides an opportunity for foundations to better support asset policy and products that assist people with limitedresources or otherwise unable to build sufficient financial reserves to withstandemergency and plan for their future. The Asset Funders Network will share successful strategies and approaches thathave helped low-income Americans save for home ownership, higher education, small business and long-term investment opportunities.