The National Endowment for Financial Education® (NEFE®) offers the award-winning High School Financial Planning Program® (HSFPP), a free and flexible curriculum that has been proven to change students’ knowledge, actions and self-confidence about managing their money.
Money & Me is a hands-on experience that teaches teenagers the basics of money and how to make it work for them. The program covers budgeting, credit advantages and pitfalls, savings and checking accounts, how to save for a big purchase and investing for the future.
The brass|Student Program provides high schools with access to brass|Magazine, a personal finance publication written by young adults that delivers relevant content for classroom discussions and activities. The program also includes online resource centers for teachers and students, and the Credit Unions for College scholarship database.

LifeSmarts…the Ultimate Consumer Challenge is a game show style competition for teenagers designed to better prepare them as responsible consumers in today’s dynamic marketplace. Questions cover personal finance, consumer rights and responsibilities, health and safety, technology and the environment.

Biz Kid$ is a fun, 30-minute PBS television series for kids about making and managing money. It highlights young entrepreneurs who have turned hobbies into successful businesses, raised funds for good causes and much more.

The Kid’s Cash Kit & Caboodle includes practical, hands-on tools to teach children and their families the basics of money management using the concepts of saving, spending and sharing.

Who Are You? Identity Thieves Really Want to Know! is an educational program that utilizes marketing materials, train-the-trainer workshops and instructive sessions to help credit unions and community organizations inform their members about the dangers of identity theft.

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Great news about teens’ money!

 

Great news about Money & Me for credit unions!

Plan now to incorporate Money & Me into your credit union's financial education goals for 2011. Credit union responsibilities will include: coordinating logistics--possibly in partnership with a community organization, library or school, arranging the course location, dates and times, marketing the program to teens and/or their parents, providing staffing to teach the program or at least to assist a NYCUF-hired business teacher with some of the group activities, handling registration, arranging for breakfast and refreshments, and conducting a “graduation” ceremony.

General Information about the Money & Me Program

Teens can make their money go farther. Much farther. All it Takes is a little know-how. Now your credit union can potentially attract new youth membership while making sure they get that know-how.

Money & Me is a hands-on experience that gives teenagers the basics of money—and how to make it work for them. During a five-day summer workshop, teens can learn about:                                        

      • Financial planning and budgeting
      • Savings and checking accounts and ID Theft
      • Credit: the good and the bad
      • Investing for the future
      • Saving and shopping for a big purchase and insurance

 

To bring Money & Me to your credit union or community, contact us. To view and download the Educator's Lesson Guide, Part I and Part II. To view and download supporting marketing materials, click here

 

2010 Participating Credit Unions

Listing as of 7/30/10                       

AmeriCU CU (Utica-Rome Chapter)

Buffalo Metropolitan FCU (Buffalo Chapter)

Capital Communications FCU (Capital Chapter)

Clarence Community & Schools FCU (Buffalo Chapter)

Cooperative Federal CU (Central Chapter)

Corning Credit Union (Finger Lakes Chapter)

Genesse Co-op FCU (Rochester Chapter)

Reliant Community FCU (Rochester Chapter)

ServU (Finger Lakes Chapter)

Sidney FCU (Southern Tier Chapter)

St. Pius X Church FCU (Rochester Chapter)

Teachers FCU (Long Island Chapter)

Ticonderoga FCU (Adirondack Chapter)

UFirst FCU (Adirondack Chapter)

Union Settlement FCU (Metropolitan Chapter)

 

2009 Pilot Program

Money & Me was tested on a small scale in 2009 and received positive feedback from students, teachers and credit unions (see the "Summer of Money" article on page 3 of the Fall 2009 Solutions newsletter). Pilot program credit unions included:

  • Capital Communications FCU, Albany (Capital Chapter)
  • Cooperative Federal (Syracuse) CU, Syracuse (Central NY Chapter)
  • Municipal Credit Union, New York (Metropolitan Chapter)
  • Reliant Community FCU, Sodus (Rochester Chapter)
  • Teachers FCU, Farmingville (Long Island Chapter)
  • Union Settlement FCU, New York (Metropolitan Chapter)

                 

(Left to Right) Katie Orr, Giuliana DiGioacchino and Cal Manjunath compare financial notes during a Money & Me session held this summer at Capital Communications FCU.

                  

Money & Me Instructor, Diane Zamow (center) surrounded by her students after completion of the Union Settlement FCU-sponsored summer financial education program.

The National Credit Union Foundation (NCUF) is supporting this project by providing an Innovation Grant.

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