Financial Independence - Links

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (www.fdic.gov)

Financial Education Money Smart Curriculum (www.fdic.gov/consumers/education/index.html)

W.K. Kellogg Foundation (www.wkkf.org)

Southern University Individual Development Account (www.subr.edu/ida)

Federal Earned Income Tax Credit (www.irs.gov/individuals/article/0,,id=96466,00.html)

Louisiana Earned Income Tax Credit (www.dss.louisiana.gov/index.cfm?md=pagebuilder&tmp=home&nid=15&pnid=7&pid=11&catid=0)

Individual Development Accounts (www.cfed.org/focus.m?parentid=2&siteid=374&id=374)

Historically Black Colleges and Universities (www.ed.gov/about/inits/list/whhbcu/edlite-list.html)

National Community Tax Coalition (www.tax-coalition.org)

IDA and Asset Building Collaborative of North Carolina (www.ncidacollaborative.org)

Total Community Action (www.tca-nola.org)

United Way for the Greater New Orleans Area (www.unitedwaynola.org)

Southern University at Shreveport, Louisiana Individual Development Account (http://web.susla.edu/administration/Documents/CWD/AFIIDA_Fact_Sheet.pdf)

Partners

o   Coppin State University, Baltimore, Maryland

o   Dillard University, New Orleans, Louisiana

o   Howard University, Washington, DC

o   Miles College, Birmingham, Alabama

o   North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, North Carolina

o   Mississippi Valley State University, Itta Bena, Mississippi

o   Southern University Law Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

o   Internal Revenue Service

o   FDIC