Interview with a Funder Why is supporting economic security and asset building essential to your mission? The Consumer Health Foundation’s (CHF’s) website reflects our view on the intersection of health equity, economic justice, and racial equity. It reads “Health inequities are unjust and preventable differences in health between groups of people. They are created and…
Interview with a Researcher The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) recently released a brief that discusses ways state EITCs make work pay for people of color and women. We followed up with Erica Williams, Senior Director of State Policy Initiatives, to learn more about the role of tax credits in helping to advance…
Supporting Immigrant Families in a Shifting Policy Landscape *Edit Added on 10.30.18: The proposed “public charge” rule was published in the Federal Register on October 10th, triggering a 60-day public comment period. Under this proposed rule, immigrants seeking admission to the U.S. or applying for lawful permanent residency could be denied if family members, including U.S. citizen children, receive…
Tell us about the Greater New Orleans Foundation’s economic opportunity work. The Foundation’s economic opportunity work was born out of our post-Katrina work on housing and community development, which included a five-year, $25 million initiative to support the organizations and systems that repaired or created new affordable housing. We organize our grant programs into nine categories…
MDRC, a nonprofit, nonpartisan education and social policy research firm, is testing and evaluating a demonstration project – Paycheck Plus – that offers workers without dependent children an enhanced Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). The program is being implemented and evaluated in two U.S. cities – New York, New York and Atlanta, Georgia. The…
In 2015, California became the 26th state to establish a state EITC and in 2017, Governor Jerry Brown signed into a law a major expansion of the state credit. The Golden State Opportunity Foundation has been at the forefront of California’s EITC advocacy and outreach efforts and…
What is the current focus of the Intuit Financial Freedom Foundation (IFFF)? The purpose of the Foundation is to make a meaningful impact on the financial lives of lower-income and underserved taxpayers, individuals, small businesses and the nonprofits that serve them. The Foundation, founded in 2002, executes its mission through public-private partnerships between Intuit and…
Tell us about your organization’s work and how family economic security fits into your priorities as a philanthropic organization focused on community health. Our vision is to make Lincoln, Nebraska the healthiest community in the nation. For the past 18 years, the Community Health Endowment of Lincoln (CHE) has worked to fulfill this vision which was…
In the wake of the 2016 election, we turned to two federal EITC policy experts to tell us their views on what’s next for the federal EITC. Robert Greenstein, Founder and President of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and Elizabeth Kneebone, Fellow at the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institute, provided their thoughts in response to…
Tell us about your economic opportunity funding portfolio. The mission of the Sisters of Charity Foundation is to address the needs of the poor and underserved statewide – in all 46 South Carolina counties – and to strategically use resources to reduce poverty through action, advocacy, and leadership. South Carolina has one of the highest poverty…