Center for Social Development

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American Dream Demonstration
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Center for Social Development
Washington University in St. Louis

Conference Agenda

“Taking the Measure of the American Dream Demonstration”
An Assessment of Knowledge Building and Impacts in Applied Social Research
April 20, 2005

Radisson Hotel
200 North Fourth Street
St. Louis, MO 63102-1902
314-621-8200 or 800-333-3333

Arrivals on Tuesday afternoon or evening, April 19, 2005

Continental breakfast and informal discussion, 7:00 to 8:00 am

Opening

8:00 Welcome and introductions
Edward Lawlor
Michael Sherraden

8:15 ADD research: Purposes, questions and methods Lissa Johnson

Key results from ADD research methods: What we learned and did not learn

8:30 Implementation assessment Deborah Adams

9:00 Cross-sectional survey Amanda Moore McBride

9:30 In-depth interviews Margaret Sherraden

Break 10:00 to 10:15

10:15 Program monitoring Mark Schriener
Margaret Clancy

10:45 Experiment Greg Mills

11:15 Cost analysis Mark Schreiner

Lunch and keynote: Vision and implementation of a policy demonstration

11:45 ADD: Conception, challenges, contributions Bob Friedman

Knowledge building from ADD research: Contributions and shortcomings

1:00 Assets, race, and class Thomas Shapiro

1:30 Saving theory and evidence Mark Iwry

2:00 Implications for financial services Michael Barr

Break 2:30 to 2:45

Asset-building policy and programs: Impacts from ADD research

2:45 Community-based programs Rene Bryce-LaPorte
Steven Dow

3:15 State and tribal policy and programs Karen Edwards
Gena Gunn

3:45 Federal Policy Ray Boshara

ADD research and policy abroad: Impacts and next research agendas

4:15 United Kingdom Will Paxton

4:35 Taiwan and China Li-chen Cheng

4:55 Canada Peter Nares
Barbara Gosse

5:15 Uganda Fred Ssewamala

Summary and closing: Overall assessment

5:35 Philanthropic perspective: Was it worth it?
DeGiovanni
Melton Frank DeGiovanni
Benita Melton

6:15 Reflections on large-scale applied social research Michael Sherraden

6:30 Opening reception of State Asset-Building Policy conference

Continued ADD Discussion

7:30 CFED-sponsored dinner at Hannegan's on the Landing

Sponsors:
Ford Foundation, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, F. B. Heron Foundation, MetLife Foundation, CFED, CSD

Center for Social Development
George Warren Brown School of Social Work
Washington University
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St. Louis, Missouri 63130-4899
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