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Doorway to Dreams
New IRS Checkbox Makes Impulse Savings as Easy as Impulse Spending

The figures are in. The new checkbox that appeared on the IRS tax form for the first time this year allowing taxpayers to use their refund to buy bonds has been a success. As of April 17, 2010, over 18,000 taxpayers had checked that little box and saved an impressive $8 million.
Grants
Trustees of Boston College
for use by its Center for Financial Literacy in support of its Withholding-to-Debt-Reduction Pilot Program, which will develop and test a...
http://www.bc.edu/Location: Chestnut Hill, MA
Initiative: American Workers
Region Served: Massachusetts, United States
TERM of the Grant: 2/1/2010 – 1/31/2011
Amount: $88,000New America Foundation
toward the costs of its "Next Social Contract Initiative," an integrated program of research, meetings, and publications designed to...
http://www.newamerica.netLocation: Washington, DC
Initiative: American Workers
Region Served: United States
TERM of the Grant: 1/1/2010 – 12/31/2010
Amount: $700,000Yale University
for use by its Institution for Social and Policy Studies in support of follow-on analyses of the Rockefeller Economic Security Index...
http://www.yale.edu/Location: New Haven, CT
Initiative: American Workers
Region Served: United States
TERM of the Grant: 1/1/2010 – 8/31/2011
Amount: $479,600National Partnership for Women and Families, Inc.
toward the costs of its Paid Sick Days Initiative, which seeks to increase women and families' economic security by promoting basic labor...
http://www.nationalpartnership.orgLocation: Washington, DC
Initiative: American Workers
Region Served: United States
TERM of the Grant: 11/1/2009 – 10/31/2010
Amount: $165,000Fund for the City of New York, Inc.
for use by its Center for Court Innovation in support of research and planning for a new juvenile justice reform center in New York State...
http://www.fcny.org/Location: New York, NY
Initiative: American Workers
Region Served: New York
TERM of the Grant: 12/1/2009 – 6/30/2010
Amount: $60,000

