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Financial Independence - Program
The Path to Financial
Independence strategies include:
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developing and expanding asset and
wealth building program initiatives at HBCUs such as (a)
VITA Centers; (b) asset building programs (home ownership,
education, entrepreneurial, etc.); and (c) earned income tax
credits efforts
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improving technology and
infrastructure needs at HBCU partner sites and in the
supported communities by (a) assessing of technology needs
at identified HBCU partner sites; and (b) developing plans
for addressing identified infrastructure needs; and
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building the infrastructure for
the HBCU network and increasing capacity building at
collaborating HBCU sites by (a) engaging in training on
implementation of asset and wealth building models using
best practices and research-based strategies; (b)
identifying wealth building resources; and (c) linking HBCUs
to identified funding streams.
The national
collaboration is comprised of:
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Southern University and A&M
College Center for Social Research, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
(the Coordinating Center)
(www.subr.edu/socialresearch)
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Coppin State University,
Baltimore, Maryland (www.coppin.edu)
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Dillard University, New Orleans,
Louisiana (www.dillard.edu)
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Howard University, Washington, DC
(www.howard.edu)
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Miles College, Birmingham, Alabama
(www.miles.edu)
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North Carolina A&T State
University, Greensboro, North Carolina (www.ncat.edu)
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Mississippi Valley State
University, Itta Bena, Mississippi
(www.mvsu.edu)
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Southern University Law Center,
Baton Rouge, Louisiana (www.sulc.edu)
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Internal Revenue Service
(www.irs.gov)
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Various community partners located
in each of the program hubs
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