Financial Education

brass is All About Young Adults

In a national financial literacy survey conducted by the Jump$tart Coalition in 2008, high school seniors correctly answered only 48.3 percent of the questions. This mean score is a decrease from those posted by the senior class of 2006, which correctly answered 52.4 percent of the survey questions. Clearly, our youth need to know more about earning, spending, saving, and investing money. With that objective in mind, the brass|STUDENT PROGRAM delivers quality educational resources to every public New York State high school. The goal of the brass|STUDENT PROGRAM is to educate juniors and senior high school students about the importance of money and how it impacts their lives.

With the cooperation of sponsors who believe in advancing financial knowledge in young adults, the brass|STUDENT PROGRAM reaches out to tens of thousands of high school students and teachers by providing schools with content about the money side of life™ through its flagship publication, brass|MAGAZINE. Bryan Sims, the 25 year-old Founder and CEO of brass|MEDIA Inc., said…“The way we choose to go about supporting financial education is to give it a different spin. To this audience in general, the word ‘financial’ is viewed as boring, and education brings thought of school. We focus on the money and how it can work for them. That is what is most interesting about finances.”

Thank you brass|STUDENT PROGRAM sponsors Check out one of these credit unions in your area ACMG Federal Credit Union, Solvay Advantage Federal Credit Union, Rochester AmeriCU Credit Union, Rome/Syracuse Capital Communications Federal Credit Union, Albany First New York Federal Credit Union, Albany First Source Federal Credit Union, Utica/New Hartford Hudson River Community Credit Union, Corinth Members United Corporate Federal Credit Union, Albany Mid-Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union, Kingston Municipal Credit Union, New York City Palisades Federal Credit Union, Pearl River Reliant Community Credit Union, Sodus The Summit Federal Credit Union, Rochester Suffolk Federal Credit Union, Long Island TCT Federal Credit Union, Saratoga Springs

Program Components

The brass|STUDENT PROGRAM-New York is
funded by supporting New York credit unions, in collaboration with:

brass|MEDIA Inc.
New York Credit Union Foundation
Credit Union Association of New York
New York State Education Department
Business Teachers’ Association of New York State

The program consists of three components:

	brass|MAGAZINEStudent Edition content for classroom instruction
	brass|TEACHER RESOURCE CENTER
	brass|STUDENT RESOURCE CENTER student online resources and a searchable scholarship database

The brass|STUDENT PROGRAM may be utilized to supplement such subject areas as career and financial management, business, marketing, economics, social studies, agribusiness, family and consumer sciences, and other career and technical education and academic subjects. It can also be a great resource in high school student leadership organizations (e.g., FBLA, FFA, FCCLA, Key Club).