Advancing Tax Systems That Work for All
Network Events
The EITC Funders Network hosts meetings and webinars throughout the year. Review the information, materials and recordings by clicking on the event pages below.
Funder Overview of the Direct File Pilot & Other Inflation Reduction Act Initiatives
Earlier this year, the IRS and Treasury announced that they are moving forward with a Direct File pilot. The goal of the pilot is to test a new and free system that is meant to improve the process of tax…
Building Policy Advocacy & Grassroots Organizing Capacity to Improve Economic Security: A Conversation for Missouri Funders
In April 2023, Economic Opportunity Funders, Tax Equity Funders Network, and Philanthropy Missouri co-hosted a webinar to explore the ecosystem that works to improve economic security for Missourians and begin to identify strategies to strengthen it. In this follow-on conversation…
Innovations to Improve Access & Build a More Equitable Tax System: Briefs Release and Funder Strategy Session
It is said that without a vision for our future we will always return to our past. Join the Tax Equity Funders Network and Prosperity Now for the release of a set of briefs written by field leaders-Shaping the Future:…
Housing Insecurity is an Economics Problem: Connecting Economic and Housing Justice
After many consecutive years of decline, homelessness has been on the rise across the country, with particular increases of people living unsheltered. Countless more in the US are just one financial crisis away from losing their housing as the cost…
Shaping the Future Forum
It is said that without a vision for our future we will always return to our past. If the pandemic taught us anything it is that significant movements in policy can happen in a short period of time if there…
Annual Policy Series 2023: A Focus on State Tax Credits
The EITC Funders Network and Economic Opportunity Funders hosted national and state field partners for a review of developments in state Earned Income Tax Credits and Child Tax Credits in 2022 and the opportunities and challenges ahead in 2023. Field partners from…
Annual Policy Series 2023: A Focus on Federal Policy
Paying our taxes is part of how we work collectively as Americans. By putting our funds together (through taxes) we work collectively to pay for roads, schools, health care, child care, national security, environmental protection and everything else. While paying…
December 2022 Meeting: Moving from Learnings to Action
Over the past two years, funders and the field have learned much about helping families and workers access the tax credits they are eligible for and ensuring they can get their taxes done in low-cost, non-predatory settings. But how do…
Tax Equity Funders Network Session at the Prosperity Summit 2022
The pandemic and racial reckoning of the past few years underscored vast inequities, calling each of us to rise to the challenge to invest in solutions. This time has opened the door to innovations, even in long-standing fields like tax…
Summer 2022 Webinar: Reach Them Where They Are
Lessons Learned from a Social Media Campaign to Inform Young Adults About the Expanded EITC With the passage of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), the federal EITC was expanded to low-income young adults not claiming children on their taxes. …