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What ONAC Can ProvideThere Are Various Ways to Interface with ONAC. Here Is What ONAC Can Provide Constituents:
- Asset-building resources, models, and strategies
- An ONAC Conference to be held annually
- Opportunities to connect to Native and non-Native asset building practitioners throughout the country for partnership
- Outreach to tribal leaders, tribal government programs, and other Native and non-Native organizations to provide information about asset building
- Training and technical assistance for those wanting to design and implement asset- building programs
- ONAC-generated financial education for youth and for parents managing 529 college savings plans
- Participation in the national ONAC Native EITC/VITA Network and the Native Bank On ONAC initiative
- Funding for asset-building program mini-grants and seed funding for Children's Savings Accounts, emergency savings accounts, and the opening of a Bank On checking account. ONAC also provides nationally-available financial coaching, emergency cash assistance, and down payment assistance
- Presentations about asset-building topics during webinars or at in-person events (pre-pandemic), such as with the FDIC, Federal Trade Commission, HUD, Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund, and Bank On ONAC partners
- ONAC-conducted national asset-building research such as about options for providing remote VITA and financial education services during a pandemic, documentation of Children's Savings initiatives in the U.S., how to claim federal EIP payments and connections to Bank On during the pandemic, lessons learned from delivery of emergency cash assistance, how to scale asset building and address the digital divide, and outcomes related to ONAC's integrated service delivery system
- Information about asset-building trends and ONAC's services as part of participation in other national asset-building research conducted by entities such as the Asset Funders Network, the Federal Reserve Bank, Prosperity Now, and others
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