Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Seeks Mobile Money and Financial Education Solutions

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Seeks Mobile Money and Financial Education Solutions

Just days after the closing of the broad call for applications for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges Explorations initiative, which seeks innovative solutions that address the world’s most pressing problems, the focus is turning to measures...

PwC Grants $3.2 Million to MIND Research Institute’s Financial Ed Initiative

PwC Grants $3.2 Million to MIND Research Institute’s Financial Ed Initiative

Financial education professionals are buzzing over news that PwC Charitable Foundation, the grant-making affiliate of PwC, the world’s second largest professional services network and one of the Big Four auditors, awarded the MIND Research Institute $3.2 million...

Financial Literacy Takes Center Stage at Global Entrepreneurship Week

Financial Literacy Takes Center Stage at Global Entrepreneurship Week

Amid one of the world’s largest celebration of entrepreneurs, innovators and startup company founders that drive economies and solve some of the most pressing problems, Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) in mid-November in Kosovo put a major spotlight on financial...

Teachers Hail Effectiveness of Prudential’s Financial Literacy Program for Students

Teachers Hail Effectiveness of Prudential’s Financial Literacy Program for Students

In a significant showing of success for the financial education space, British life insurer Pru Life UK has published very positive results of the evaluation of its Cha-Ching Financial Literacy for the Youth Program. Based on the implementation and effectiveness of...

Citibank Inks Innovative Financial Literacy Partnership

Citibank Inks Innovative Financial Literacy Partnership

In one of the latest moves by a multi-national financial services firm to improve financial literacy throughout the world, Citibank is partnering with the Jakarta administration and Bank DKI to develop and launch financial education programs in Indonesia. One of the...

Rhode Island Adopts National Financial Literacy Standards

Rhode Island Adopts National Financial Literacy Standards

Rhode Island has just become the fourth U.S. state to adopt and recommend the Council for Economic Education’s standards as the basis for financial literacy education. The Rhode Island Council for Elementary and Secondary Education unanimously endorsed the Council’s...

11 National Financial Literacy Research Grants Awarded Under Financial Empowerment Innovation Fund

11 National Financial Literacy Research Grants Awarded Under Financial Empowerment Innovation Fund

As part of the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Empowerment Innovation Fund’s mission to award research grants to develop, test, and evaluate new ways to assist individuals and families in better understanding and managing their personal financial affairs and gain...

Financial Literacy and Education Commission Convened on Comprehensive Financial Education Agenda

Financial Literacy and Education Commission Convened on Comprehensive Financial Education Agenda

Financial literacy enthusiasts praised the agenda and outcome of the recent meeting of the Financial Literacy and Education Commission at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The agenda covered a broad range of financial literacy topics, and focused a discussion of...

The PISA Approach to Measuring Financial Literacy

The PISA Approach to Measuring Financial Literacy

In our continuing coverage of the topic of measuring financial literacy, we explore in greater detail assessment and results promulgated by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which released news a few months ago relating to its Program for...

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