In this report, JPMorgan Chase & Co. Institute studies racial gaps in liquid assets, take-home income, and families' consumption response to income volatility.

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This study investigated the relationship between personality metrics and savings behaviors amongst low-wealth individuals in Miami. A number of Catalyst Miami clients participated in the study, which included brain scans conducted by FIU Center for Imagine Science. This study was funded by JPMorgan Chase & Co.

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In November 2019, Future Bound Miami was launched as Florida's first universal children's savings account program. This report captures our research and planning process in bringing the program from concept to implementation.

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This in-depth case study examines Catalyst Miami's work over two decades, evolving to meet the needs of Miami-Dade County's low-wealth communities. The case study was developed for the Kresge Foundation’s Next Generation Human Services Initiative in collaboration with Harvard Business School.

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Catalyst Miami is part of a 30+ organization coalition urging local elected officials to utilize vacant public land for affordable development.

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Connect Capital is an action plan released in May 2019 by the City of Miami and Miami Homes for All to address the city's affordable housing needs. The report is a result of more than a year of community-wide conversations with a goal of preserving & creating 12K affordable housing units. Catalyst Miami served on the steering committee.

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As the connection between financial capability and social mobility is increasingly clear, public and private actors are moving to innovate and invest in an ecosystem that supports financial health for economically vulnerable households. Local governments are uniquely positioned to play a key role on the front line of these financial capability efforts.

This study, funded by JPMorgan & Co., explores the broad range of strategies that make up the financial capability landscape in U.S. cities, touching on programs and policy efforts deployed by and within municipalities. Our high-level scan of existing initiatives and the ways they fit together reveals the role that cities and their core institutions can play in promoting residents’ personal economic growth. This study mentions Catalyst Miami's work several times and was written by Urbane Development.

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This strategy is greater Miami's strategy to address resilience challenges prioritized through inter-governmental and community collaboration as part of The Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities. Catalyst Miami served on the steering committee and remains deeply involved in implementing this work.

Resilience, for us, means providing the opportunity for every person and every community to bounce back after large-scale flooding events, hurricanes, or economic hardships, and to not only survive, but thrive in the face of sea level rise, expensive housing, challenging traffic, and uncertain labor markets.

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This study sheds light on the widening gap in wealth in the Miami area between white households and households of color. Among non-white groups, Miami-area households identifying as black that continue to suffer most. Gretchen Beesing, Catalyst Miami CEO, is a co-author of this study. This study is part of a larger Color of Wealth series (which highlights other major US cities) by the main author, Dr. Darrick Hamilton.

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A white paper on hurricane preparedness and responses/best practices after Hurricane Irma.

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