The Council for Economic Education (The Council) is soliciting applications from qualified organizations seeking to promote economic and financial literacy among students in kindergarten through grade 12. In 2004, the United States Department of Education’s Office of Innovation and Improvement designated the Council as the sole agency to implement the Excellence in Economic Education (EEE) Program. Now in its sixth year, the Council is pleased to announce a new opportunity to apply for funding for projects during 2009-2010. The application deadline is June 2, 2009.
ONLINE APPLICATION
Please go to http://www.councilforeconed.org/eee/ for general information on the Excellence in Economic Education Program RFPs for each of the sub-grants, and information about applying online.
Read more: Excellence in Economic Education 2009 Request for Proposals
Junior Achievement of Southern California : As JA Finance Park is into its second year of operation, we are excited to report that over 8,000 students are expected to visit the facility this year! The need for financial literacy education is clear, now more than ever, and teachers across Southern California are heeding the call as they deliver the in-class JA Finance Park curriculum. Your participation is needed during the culminating experience at JA Finance Park. We are looking for both individuals and company volunteer groups. As a volunteer, you will work with a small group of students as they become "adults for the day"and experience the realities of creating and maintaining a personal monthly budget. To volunteer register: https://secure.imodules.com/s/1019/index.aspx?sid=1019&pgid=589&cid=1174&gid=1&
Read more: Junior Achievement Seeking Volunteers for High School Financial Literacy Programs
"You don't blame the victims for what happened, but you also recognize that fewer people would have been hurt if they had known a little bit more," said Laura Levine, executive director of the JumpStart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy, a Washington-based financial-education advocacy group.
Read more: Teaching Kids More Money Savvy Could Avoid Another Crisis
The Peter G. Peterson Foundation and MTV's 24-hour college network mtvU are proud to announce that 25-year-old Brian Haveri of Milburn, NJ, who graduated from Lehigh University, has won the InDebtEd Digital Challenge and a $10,000 prize. The InDebtEd Digital Challenge invited young people aged 18-28 to submit creative, original ideas for an online video game that focuses on the nation's fiscal crisis. Haveri's concept will be developed into a game that will be used to spread awareness of the country's dangerous financial condition and encourage young people to take action to turn the tide.
The Peter G. Peterson Foundation and MTV's 24-hour college network mtvU are proud to announce that 25-year-old Brian Haveri of Milburn, NJ, who graduated from Lehigh University, has won the InDebtEd Digital Challenge and a $10,000 prize. The InDebtEd Digital Challenge invited young people aged 18-28 to submit creative, original ideas for an online video game that focuses on the nation's fiscal crisis. Haveri's concept will be developed into a game that will be used to spread awareness of the country's dangerous financial condition and encourage young people to take action to turn the tide.
Read more: Announcing the Winner of the $10,000 InDebtEd Digital Challenge!
December 5, 2008 - Silver Spring, MD – Every young boy and girl wants to be a millionaire when they grow up, but just how might they go about getting from point A to point B? The National Foundation for Credit Counseling (NFCC) is providing students with the opportunity to contemplate that thought and express it through art.
In an effort to spread lessons in financial literacy to our nation’s youth, the NFCC is once again
sponsoring the Be Money Wi$e National Financial Literacy Poster Contest for 2009.
Read more: NFCC Announces Annual National Financial Literacy Poster Contest
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Read more: America's High School Students are Invited to Take The Challenge!
October 17, 2008 - (An opinion from CAJump$tart Advisory Group member Elisabeth Donati, Founder of Creative Wealth International) - Three years ago we started offering our Camp Millionaire (formerly The Money Camp) to girls-only in addition to our coed programs. This past summer (2008) we also tried our hand at boys-only. Boy, what a difference a gender makes, no pun intended.
I have done a tremendous amount of reading and research and as much observation with regard to money and gender; specifically, the difference in how women and men 'look' at money and what it means to each of us. Pretty interesting stuff. I thought perhaps you'd find it interesting as well. I'm going to talk about kids first and then I'll talk about adults (us big kids).
Read more: Financial 'Genderalizations': Money and the Sexes