Financial Education Resource Guide
We know that Oregon bankers have been helping improve their community's financial education for years. Here you'll find even more resources to continue those efforts and help Oregonians increase their financial IQ.
Bankers can provide financial education to their community at any time, these events however, provide special opportunities to connect with your local schools.
- Teach Children to Save Day, April 27, 2010
ABA Education Foundation established Teach Children to Save Day to spotlight the importance of teaching our nation's youth about saving money. This event occurs every April when bankers make presentations to students in grades K-12 about budgeting, saving, recognizing needs and wants and how interest makes money grow.
- Get Smart About Credit Day, October 21, 2010
Young people need to know how to use credit wisely. So, to raise awareness among teens and young adults about the importance of credit smarts, the ABA Education Foundation sponsors Get Smart About Credit Day. On this date, bankers like you go to classrooms, connect with youth groups, and visit college campuses to help young people in the community get smart about credit now, so they can make smart financial choices later in life.
- Jump$tart Oregon Coalition
Get involved with this statewide non-profit dedicated to improving the financial literacy of Oregon's youth.
- Financial Beginnings
Work with this Oregon nonprofit which provides comprehensive programs on financial education to children and parents in your community.
- Reading is an Investment
Sponsor a local school to participate in this statewide program designed to highlight the importance of reading and teaching young children about saving money and basic financial concepts.
- OperationHope
Volunteer to provide financial education to youth ages 9-18 in your area.
- Get Smart About Credit
Add the eLearning Program to your bank's website.
- Personal Finance Basics
Distribute this popular series of educational booklets in your schools, community centers and bank branches.
- AFSA Education Foundation
Offer these publications designed to increase consumers' awareness of personal financial responsibility to your customers.
- Identity Theft Prevention
With identity theft on the rise, Oregon banks must increase their efforts to help our community members understand more about protecting their personal information - and these resources will help you do just that.
- Elder Financial Abuse Prevention
Learn how to protect senior citizens from financial abuse.
Reach out to teachers in your community to help bring important financial education curricula, like the following programs, to our schools:
Grade School:
Middle & Junior High School:
High School:
- Banking On Our Future
*Registration required (free). A series of interactive video modules from basics of banking, budgeting, checking and more for grades 4 - 12.
- Tips for Life
*Registration required (free). Finance and business curriculum.
- It All Adds Up
Five modules on personal finance management.
- Bank High School
Downloadable worksheets, images of financial documents and other resources.
- Practical Money Skills for Life
Fourteen lesson plan's with teacher's guide, overheads and worksheets.
- MoneySKILL
*Registration required (free). Thirty-four "how-to" modules on personal finance.
Do you know of a great resource that should be listed here?
Please email the link to arose@oregonbankers.com.
