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Fannie Mae Foundation In Innovations in Personal Finance for the Unbanked: Emerging Practices from the Field you will find out how innovative financial service providers and community development groups are helping consumers around the country make the connection to mainstream financial services.
FDIC Press Release FDIC Launches Study to Identify Alternatives to Payday Loans; Applications to Participate Accepted Through November 20th
From Brookings Banking on Wealth: America’s New Retail Banking Infrastructure and Its Wealth-Building Potential
Get Smart about money: GET SMART ABOUT CREDIT Day October 18 http://www.smartaboutmoney.org
NEFE, National Endowment for Financial Education: http://www.nefe.org
America Saves: http://www.americasaves.org
Texas Saves - See their Personal Wealth Estimator!
Family, Career and Community Leaders of America: http://www.fcclainc.org
What my Score? http://www.whatsmyscore.org
Junior Achievement Hands-on experiences to help young people understand the economics of life.
Money In Motion A program to help bankers reach directly into classrooms...
NASD Investor Education Foundation's survey: Off the Hook Again - read
State legislatures promote financial education - read
Federal Reserve Board's calendar of their web postings.
InvestorEducation.org - Weekly updates from the Alliance for Investor Education.
Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy encourages curriculum enrichment to ensure basic personal financial skills are attained during K-12 educational experience.
Financial Fitness for Life is a complete personal finance curriculum for grades K-12.
Operation Hope Promoting financial literacy for the underserved
Banking Is - a learning system designed to provide a comprehensive instructional program that includes an introduction to the financial services industry and money management skills required for functioning competently in the American economy.
Newly Revised Building Wealth - Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Banking Kids - "Teaching financial literacy to kids"
Kidzbank - "Financial Freedom for Tomorrows Adults."
Save For America - "Saving is the crucial issue for the long-term economic outlook of this country."
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www.ftc.gov/ Federal Trade Commission - Tim Muris, Chairman
www.fdic.gov"A Special Guide for Young Adults: Taking Care of Your Finances" Spring 2005 FDIC Money Smart Financial Education Curriculum
New Self-Paced Computer-Based-Instruction (CBI) Version
www.ots.treas.gov/ Office of Thrift Supervision - James Gilleran, Director
www.ssa.gov/ Social Security Administration - Jo Anne Barnhart, Commissioner
www.ncua.gov/ National Credit Union Administration - Dennis Dollar, Chairman
www.sec.gov/ Security and Exchange Commission - Cynthia Glassman, Commissioner
www.defenselink.mil/ Department of Defense - Charlie Abell and Sec. Rumsfeld
www.sba.gov/ Small Business Administration - Cheryl Mills, Associate Deputy Administrator
www.usda.gov/ USDA - Mary McPhail gray, Deputy Administrator
www.dol.gov/ Department of Labor - Ann Combs
www.opm.gov/ Office of Personnel Management - Kay James, Director
www.occ.treas.gov/ Office of Comptroller of Currency
www.cftc.gov/ Commodity Futures Trade Commission
www.gsa.gov/ General Services Administration - Sharon Brown Hruska
www.ed.gov/index.jtml US Department of Education - Jack Martin, Sec. Rod Paige
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Sandra Braunstein addresses financial literacy before the Committee on Financial Services, US House of Representatives.
The Texas Education Agency has approved the IBAT Education Foundation web site as a provider of approved materials for the fall 2006 Semester. read
Taking Ownership of the Future: The National Strategy for Financial Literacy - read PDF
Kids Must Learn Finances
Comptroller Dugan Highlights Importance of Financial Literacy Programs - read
Article - Survey Shows Consumers Do Not Know What Constitutes Comprehensive Financial Planning read
Minutes of the Financial Literacy & Education Commission's meetings - read
Report - Basic economic skills sorely lacking among US students ignorant of life 101 skills
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