Woodstock Institute operates several programs designed to improve and increase access to wealth building tools and to reduce the availability of unfairly and misleadingly priced financial products that threaten a family with long-term, unproductive debt.

The Institute carries out these programs in a variety of ways. We research and disseminate information on topics that currently offer either significant benefit or threat to wealth creation; we develop and refine policies and practices that will serve those same goals; and we work with a variety of actors—community groups, financial institutions and their regulators, policy makers, other local and national nonprofits, and the media to discuss, plan, and help implement useful wealth creating strategies.