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University of Arkansas Grant
Organization - University of Arkansas
Grant Amount - $250,000
Foundation - Ford Foundation
Grant Purpose - To enable the School of Social Work to assess the long-term retention of assets and the well-being of participants in individual development account programs in Arkansas and New Mexico
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Council of Michigan Foundations - $50,000 from the Mott Foundation - This grant will enable the Council of Michigan Foundations to spin off the Michigan Individual Development Account Partnership, which was established in 2000 to support the growth and development of Individual Development Account programs throughout...
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - $170,000 from the Mott Foundation - The American Dream Demonstration, which ran from 1998 to 2002, was a large-scale, experimental study assessing the efficacy of Individual Development Accounts. Results from the demonstration helped propel bipartisan interest in increasing the...
Urban Institute - $100,000 from the Mott Foundation - Tax policy continues to have a central place on the national agenda and, given long-term deficit projections, is likely to stay there for the foreseeable future. Moreover, the nation's social safety net is provided increasingly in the form of...
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Social Work - $750,000 from the MacArthur Foundation - in support of an assessment of the long-term impact of participation in and a cost-benefit analysis of an Individual Development Account program (over three years).
Brandeis University - $344,087 from the Mott Foundation - Important policy and practice achievements have been made in the asset-building field over the past decade, yet major challenges remain. Most notably, scale -- defined as expanding successes from thousands to millions of families in a cost...
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