D2D is hosting the Savings Bond Working Group to explore options to get savings bonds back on the tax return. Find out more about the Savings Bond Working Group here.
Buying Savings: What if buying savings were as simple as picking up gift cards or prepaid debit cards at your local retailer? What if the cards were collectable? For instance, stored value savings cards with images of NASCAR drivers that may each be initially worth $50 and earn competitive interest... Read more
Jane Bryant Quinn makes a case for U.S. Savings Bonds and references D2D's work in Savings Bonds' Swan Song? in the Washington Post.
Read "The New Social Contract”. In a related video, D2D's Executive Director Jeff Zinsmeyer and a savings bond purchaser discuss the merits of savings bonds. View the video here.
D2D recently completed initial dissemination of its ZMET research at two credit union industry conferences and during an industry webinar. D2D also shared preliminary work from research pilots underway at Wright-Patt Credit Union in Dayton, Ohio and Mission San Francisco Federal Credit Union.
D2D extends a warm welcome to Christina Kasica as its Director of Communication and Advocacy. For more on Christina see http://www.d2dfund.org/about_d2d/d2d_staff
D2D has developed innovations in asset building that currently operate or have the potential to operate at scale: Split Refunds and Online IDA