Asset Ownership Project

The Asset Ownership Project seeks to empower individuals and families by freeing them from dependence on government handouts and making them "owners." Ownership gives people the independence, as well as the responsibility, to take more control of their lives. Cascade's Asset Ownership Project seeks to alleviate poverty by altering faulty and inefficient government programs into asset building programs. This project focuses on giving workers ownership of their unemployment benefits and retirement funds. Also, through the Wheels to Wealth project, Cascade has sought to increase personal wealth by helping to increase car ownership among low-income people.