"Credit building may be the most cost-effective and efficient asset
building tool."— Robert Boyle, Justine Petersen Housing
Credit Builders Toolkit
is a growing resource of innovative tools and strategies for asset
building organizations to better understand credit scoring and
reporting to strengthen their clients' credit.
Access
Credit Reports:
Asset building organizations asked CBA for better
access to credit reports for
credit counseling and measuring community
impact. In response, CBA partnered with TransUnion to support
nonprofits to pull credit reports with a FICO score for financial
counseling and outcome tracking.
Complete the Join Us! form if you wish to access credit reports.
CBA believes
asset building organizations collect data predictive
of risk in underserved communities. CBA hosted a
roundtable at the CFED
2006 Assets
Learning Conference with Experian, Fair Isaac and IDA organizations
to brainstorm potential data points for research
and analysis including:
