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Massachusetts Financial Literacy Task Force Issues Key Report

Massachusetts Financial Literacy Task Force Issues Key Report

All eyes were on the state of Massachusetts when State Treasurer Deb Goldberg and her Financial Literacy Task Force recently released their statewide report on the status of financial education in Massachusetts. Following the launch last year of a comprehensive...

Global Financial Literacy Study: Two-Thirds of Adults Worldwide Are Not Financially Literate

Global Financial Literacy Study: Two-Thirds of Adults Worldwide Are Not Financially Literate

The global financial education community is buzzing over the findings from a recent worldwide Standard & Poor’s survey conducted by Gallup, the World Bank and GFLEC. In one of the most comprehensive measurements of global financial capability to date, the Global...

Rise in Small Business Loans Shine Spotlight on Need for Financial Education

Rise in Small Business Loans Shine Spotlight on Need for Financial Education

With an uptick in entrepreneurism and healthy activity at local banks and credit unions for small business loans, a resurgence of lending to this segment is bringing back memories of the great problems caused by robust lending to financially illiterate corporate and...

NBCUniversal Telemundo Launches Financial Literacy Campaign Targeting Millions of Hispanics in America

NBCUniversal Telemundo Launches Financial Literacy Campaign Targeting Millions of Hispanics in America

NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises took the spotlight in announcing the launch of “Tu Dinero es Tu Futuro” (Your Money is Your Future), a financial education initiative created to enhance financial literacy among Spanish-language viewers. The campaign will focus its...

NFCC Receives $4 Million from Synchrony Financial to Support Enhanced Financial Literacy

NFCC Receives $4 Million from Synchrony Financial to Support Enhanced Financial Literacy

Heightened levels of financial literacy funding continue to be evident on a broad scale. In one of the latest announcements of significant financial support for financial education programming, Synchrony Financial has committed a $4 million grant to the National...

Coca-Cola Funds $1 Million to Support Financial Education For Women and Girls

Coca-Cola Funds $1 Million to Support Financial Education For Women and Girls

Infusing significant energy and enthusiasm into the global financial literacy community, Coca-Cola announced a major $1 million commitment that will provide financial education, career training and entrepreneurship programs to women and girls. The funding will come...

NBA and MassMutual Teach Financial Literacy in National Campaign

NBA and MassMutual Teach Financial Literacy in National Campaign

Professional athletes have sparked interest in financial literacy for school-aged children for many years, and NBA stars are showing how that excitement is continuing through the nationwide FutureSmart program administered through a partnership between MassMutual and...

Crowd Funding Boosts Financial Aid and Financial Literacy

Crowd Funding Boosts Financial Aid and Financial Literacy

Crowd funding is taking the financial education space to new heights, as organizations and individuals are leveraging the power of the internet and the fast growth and popularity crowd funding to seek solutions to the mushrooming student debt, financial aid and...

First Republic Bank and EverFi Launch Innovative Financial Literacy Program for Kids

First Republic Bank and EverFi Launch Innovative Financial Literacy Program for Kids

First Republic Bank and education technology firm Everfi announced plans to launch an innovative program designed to improve financial literacy among elementary school students. The program will be rolled out in nearly sixty inner city elementary schools in...

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