Hands on Banking

Program developed by Wells Fargo to teach basic banking skills to teens and adults.  Topics include borrowing money, planning your future, starting a business, and investing basics.  Material is provided in English and Spanish.

Investing Pays Off - Merrill Lynch

Nonprofit site that has 15 strategies and activities divided into three different age groups that focus on goal setting, investing, debt, and saving for college.

Money Smart Adult Education Programs

Wachovia Bank has partnered with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to develop "Money Smart," a comprehensive interactive financial literacy course that consists of 10 financial literacy lessons. Users virtually visit banks and lenders to perform financial activities that range from depositing paychecks to applying for a home mortgage.

Practical Money Skills for Students

A comprehensive site designed for students, parents, teachers, and others to help instill and instruct on several different aspects of debt management, saving, investing, budgeting, and spending.

Financial Awareness Presentation

This presentation comprehensively tackles debt management with a dose of reality about jobs, lifestyle, spending habits, goal focus, establishing good credit, and consequences of making poor decisions that can affect student's lives for many years.

NEFE CashCourse

The National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE) has developed the cashcourse.org web site specifically to help college-age students on campuses across the country. This turnkey program allows universities to provide college students with the resources necessary to cultivate positive money management habits that will last a lifetime. Money management skills and access to personal financial planning resources are necessary for college students to build a healthy financial future.

FDIC Money Smart

Money Smart is a comprehensive financial education curriculum designed to help individuals outside the financial mainstream develop financial skills and positive banking relationships.

Citigroup Financial Education Curriculum

The Citi Financial Education Curriculum & Facilitator's Guide offers basic lessons in personal finances.

The National Endowment for Financial Education® (NEFE®)

NEFE is the only private, nonprofit, national foundation wholly dedicated to improving the financial well-being of all Americans.

The mission of the National Endowment for Financial Education is to help individual Americans acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to take control of their financial destiny. NEFE's mission is grounded in the belief that regardless of background or income level, financially informed individuals are better able to:

• Take control of their circumstances,
• Improve their quality of life, and
• Ensure a stable future for themselves and their families.

MoneyTrack Public Television Series

MoneyTrack is a fresh new public television series about money and investing that features real people. Every week, co-hosts Pam Krueger and Jack Gallagher show you what works and what doesn't work when it comes to investing your money. MoneyTrack is the only television show that offers unbiased, non-commercial education to help you become a wiser and safer investor!

Family Economics and Financial Education Project (FEFE)

The Family Economics & Financial Education (FEFE) project is in collaboration with The University of Arizona in Tucson and the credit counseling and debt management company Take Charge America, Inc. Their mission is to provide educators with no-cost curriculum materials and the skills and confidence to effectively teach family economics and finance to their students.

VISA Practical Money Skills for Life

PracticalMoneySkills.com is a free Web site designed to help educators, parents and students practice better money management for life. Americans think that financial basics are as important as the three R's traditionally taught in school. To help today's youths and consumers of all ages become financially savvy, Visa has partnered with leading consumer advocates, educators and financial institutions to launch a national program to improve the nation's financial skills -- Practical Money Skills for Life.

Pioneer Services Foundation- The Psychology of Money

A study of money and the way people use it as a building block to achieve financial success, including the internal and external factors that affect people's view of money.

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