Using the W.E. Upjohn Institute's Promise Programs Database - a searchable data set covering about 200 place-based scholarship programs-this paper explores how the design of Promise programs can shape their equity impacts. The authors first examine the landscape of place-based programs to...

This text is about assets and the difference they can make in the lives of the poor. It expands the concept of asset building to encompass a range of skills and support systems that are necessary to lift people out of poverty. It identifies four types of asset: economic, human, social and natural

Using the W.E. Upjohn Institute's Promise Programs Database - a searchable data set covering about 200 place-based scholarship programs-this paper explores how the design of Promise programs can shape their equity impacts. The authors first examine the landscape of place-based programs to...