Aspen CSG builds the capacity of practitioners and policymakers to help families on the economic margins earn more, keep more of what they earn, and grow what they keep into assets for themselves and their communities.
Aspen CSG’s Whole Family Prosperity (WFP) effort focuses on two goals: understanding and delivering family-focused results and readying a community for WFP action and collaboration. These echo the oft-cited watchwords of the Annie E. Casey Foundation: Children do well when families do well, and families do better when they live in supportive communities.
Whole Family Prosperity means that families can meet their immediate needs and are working to achieve a secure financial future for themselves and their children. Focusing on what it really takes for low-income families to succeed economically offers a way for leaders to build and strengthen community strategies and policies to support them.
Our Whole Family Prosperity Framework – named “Earn It, Keep It, Grow It” – details the set of family-focused results that, taken together, paint the picture of what it looks like when families have all the factors in place that they need to make progress and succeed in the economy.
The “Earn It, Keep It, Grow It” Framework concentrates on increasing three types of stability: the capacity and supports essential to earn an income, making good choices about borrowing and spending, and saving and increasing assets over time.
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