State coalition leaders from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, and Ohio host the Midwest Asset Building Conference. State leaders will bring together representation from their respective memberships to share ideas, make peer connections, and learn from some of the leading minds in the asset building and economic justice fields.

Conference Planning Team

Local Initiatives Support Corporation

With residents and partners, LISC forges resilient and inclusive communities of opportunity across America – great places to live, work, visit, do business and raise families. The local team has been doing work in Illinois since 190 and has been a pioneer in the local and national community development field. We provide grants, loans, technical assistance and other resources to more than 75 partner organizations in low- and moderate-income communities across Metropolitan Chicago and Central Illinois.

Illinois Home Team

  • Economic Awareness Council

  • Springfield Urban League

  • Center for Changing Lives

  • Legal Action Chicago

  • Heartland Alliance

  • Chicago Treasurer’s Office

Exodus Financial Services

Exodus Financial Services (dba Exodus Lending) works with financially excluded Minnesotans to advance economic justice through consumer lending, community organizing, and advocacy. Our vision is a financial system where everyone - particularly those who’ve been historically and systemically excluded - can access, protect, and build wealth. To meet this mission, we provide pathways out of high-interest indebtedness and pioneer upstream small dollar loans to help people break free from the abuse and entrapment of predatory lenders that prevents financial security and stability. Alongside our lending programs, our Minnesotans for Fair Lending (MFL) coalition organizes impacted community members to reclaim and leverage their power to create lasting systems change.

Planning Contributors

  • Ohio CDC Association

  • West Central Minnesota Communities Action

Prepare + Prosper

Prepare + Prosper is a Saint Paul, MN-based nonprofit organization that works to build financial health and empowerment by providing access to quality tax and financial services, financial coaching, and low-barrier financial products. P+P reshapes the financial landscape by partnering and innovating to offer services, products, and options that build wealth – not strip it – for families working hard to build a brighter financial future. We strive to work with people, communities, and systems to break down barriers and develop solutions to real financial opportunity and success.

Prosperity Indiana

The Indiana Association for Community Economic Development d/b/a Prosperity Indiana is a statewide membership organization for the individuals and organizations strengthening Hoosier communities. Since its founding in 1986, Prosperity Indiana has grown to approximately 200 members, currently representing 900 community economic development practitioners from public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Prosperity Indiana believes in a society where all persons can live and work in an environment that provides equitable access to economic and social opportunity.