Bay Area AFN Events
Bay Area AFN Member Meeting
Savings at Scale: Ideas, Trends and Emerging Opportunities
Date: Thursday, June 7th, 2012
Networking Lunch (Optional) 11:30-12:00pm
Meeting: 12:00-2:00pm
Location: MEDA/Plaza Adelante, San Francisco
This year marks the 21st anniversary of Michael Sherraden's seminal book, Assets and the Poor, which helped to launch and define the asset-building field. The milestone is being noted in small gatherings, across the country, that are bringing stakeholders together to reflect on where we've been and where we're going in the quest to expand asset-building opportunities for low-wealth individuals and families.
The June 7th Bay Area AFN membership meeting will contribute to this discourse with a panel discussion on ideas, trends and emerging opportunities to bring savings to scale. Panel participants will include key thinkers and innovators in the asset-building field who will share their visions of what scale might look like and how to get there in the years ahead.
This meeting is for grantmakers only - thank you!
Learn more about the Bay Area AFN.
Contact Siobhan Mulvey, Bay Area AFN Manager, to join the Bay Area AFN member list.
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Fall Member Meeting - COMPLETED
Applying Behavioral Economics to Asset Building: Lessons from the Bay Area
Date: Friday, November 30th, 2011
Networking Lunch (Optional): 11:30-12:00 PM PST
Meeting Time: 12:00-2:00 PM PST
Location: PolicyLink, Oakland
Why do consumers make the financial choices they make? How can choices be influenced to engender positive outcomes? These are some of the questions asset-building practitioners have been asking themselves and, in recent years, many have turned to the field of behavioral economics for answers. Behavioral economics is the study of the emotional, social and cognitive factors that influence how people make economic decisions.
This Bay Area Asset Funders Network meeting shared how Bay Area leaders are applying behavioral economics theory to improve asset-building program outcomes, particularly in the areas of financial education/coaching and financial products. The meeting was held at PolicyLink in Oakland from 12:00-2:00 pm on Friday, November 30th, 2011 (optional lunch conversation with Erin Currier of Pew Economic Mobility Project beginning at 11:30 am).
The meeting included an in-depth discussion of the steering committee recommendations emerging from the recent Bay Area AFN survey findings.
This meeting was for funders only.
All Bay Area grantmakers interested in the Bay Area AFN are welcome to join us.
Please contact Siobhan.Mulvey@gmail.com for more information.