Bankers
Resources Government Resources Reports/Speeches

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."

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

 

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

Call for Bankers Best Practices - How Your Bank Supports Financial Education.

Article - Survey on Debt Confirms Need for Financial Literacy Programs
 
Report - Basic economic skills sorely lacking among US students ignorant of life 101 skills
 
 
 
 
 
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