Alternative Data Initiative (PERC/CFSI/CFED) Supporters
The Abilities Fund, Florida
ACORN Institute, Louisiana
Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, Washington DC
Asset Builders of America, Inc., Wisconsin
Asset Building Policy Project (The Michigan Asset Building Coalition), Michigan
Baja Group Consultants, Canada
Biroul de Credit SA, Romania
Bread for the World, Washington DC
Community and Shelter Assistance Corp (CASA) of Oregon, Oregon
Capital Area Asset Builders, Washington DC
Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI), Illinois
Center for Microfinance Studies, Brazil
Collaborative Support/Community Enterprises, New Jersey
Colorado Community Action Association, Colorado
Community Economic Development Association of Michigan (CEDAM), Michigan
Community Financial Resources, California
Connecticut Voices for Children, Connecticut
Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED), Washington DC
Doorways to Dreams (D2D) Fund, Massachusetts
Dun & Bradstreet Pty Ltd.
EARN, California
ECDC, Virginia
Experian, California
The Family Conservancy, Kansas
Good Work Network, Louisiana
Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights, Illinois
Hope Communities, Inc., Colorado
IDA and Asset Building Collaborative of NC, North Carolina
Insight Center for Community Economic Development, California
Jewish Community Action, Minnesota
Kansas Action for Children, Kansas
Michigan IDA Partnership / OLHSA, Michigan
Micro Mite, Florida
The Midas Collaborative, Massachusetts
National Association of Consumer Advocates, Washington DC
National Bureau of Commercial Information, Oman
Neighborhood Partnerships, Oregon
Asset Building Program of the New America Foundation, Washington DC
NewWell Fund, Virginia
Okanogan County Community Action Council, Washington
OnTrack Financial Education & Counseling, North Carolina
Opportunity Finance Network, Pennsylvania
PKU-ACOM Financial Information Research Center, China
Policy and Economic Research Council (PERC), North Carolina
Prosper, California
RAISE Kentucky, Kentucky
RAISE Texas, Texas
Red Financiera Rural, Ecuador
RentBureau, Georgia
Rural Dynamics Inc., Montana
SVT Group, California
TransUnion LLC, Illinois
United Way of Forsyth County, North Carolina
The Women's Center, Washington DC
*as of 12/07/09
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PERC is working to build the best online resource for alternative data and information-led development on the Web. If you feel we missed any important resource, please e-mail Jaki Bradley at bradley@perc.net.
PERC's areas of expertise include:
Information-led DevelopmentPERC is a global leader in information-led development, the use of robust sets of information to enable economic development and asset building on a massive scale. See the project page for more information.
Alternative Data
Since 2003, PERC scholars have lectured policy makers on six continents -- from the World Bank to the United States Congress -- on the use of non-financial payment information, such as energy utility and rental payments, for credit scoring and asset building, also known as alternative data. For more information on this signature issue, please see the project page.
Financial Impacts of Disaster
PERC has pioneered the use of credit file and other data sets to track the economic effects of natural disasters and other exogenous shocks, as well as evaluating recovery efforts. Most recently, PERC examined economic recovery in the Gulf Coast after the 2005 hurriances.
Consumer Credit Access in the United States
Dataflows and Global Development
Projects in this category consider the interplay between technological and educational endowments, regulatory regimes, and economic development. Projects in this category have examined the relationship between a variety of factors—from cross-border data flows to credit reporting systems—and how these factors affect developing and developed world economic performance.
Data SecurityWorldwide Sourcing
These activities are focused on the phenomenon of worldwide sourcing (better known as offshore outsourcing) and examining its economic impact domestically and abroad. PERC places particular emphasis on how cross-border data flows, data security practices, and legal frameworks for data protection may affect worldwide sourcing patterns.
Media Concentration and Convergence
Data Privacy