About the Center on Hunger and Poverty and Asset Development Institute
The Center on Hunger and Poverty promotes policies that improve the lives and developmental capacities of low-income children and families in the nation. Established in 1990, the Center conducts applied research and policy analysis, disseminates analytic information on poverty and hunger, carries out public education initiatives, and provides assistance on poverty and hunger-related issues to policy makers and organizations across the country. The Center's programs are carried out through the Asset Development Institute and the Food Security Institute.

The Asset Development Institute (ADI) was established in 1999 by the Center on Hunger and Poverty to promote and advance a new domestic policy framework. ADI's work grows out of the Center's longstanding leadership role in promoting new policy choices to reduce hunger and poverty in the nation by addressing their root causes. Its mission is to broaden and refine the asset development concept; familiarize the public, the media, and state and national policy leaders with an asset development policy approach to ending poverty; analyze and promote the most compelling policies for building assets that can serve as a model for state and federal policy development; and support diverse constituencies in advancing asset-based policies and programs.

The Center on Hunger and Poverty and the Asset Development Institute are a part of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University.

About the Community Affairs Unit of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Each of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks maintains a Community Affairs office to work with depository institutions and the public to identify local credit needs and develop innovative ways to address those needs. The Community Affairs staff provides information about successful initiatives and programs for community reinvestment, small business lending, affordable housing finance, and rural and economic development issues. The Community Affairs Office is a resource for the Community Reinvestment Act, technical assistance and regulatory guidance to community-based organizations, government entities and others engaged in community and economic development efforts.

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