Money makes the world go 'round; to be comfortable, we have to make it, save it and seriously consider how we spend it. Of course, successfully managing your money matters is incredibly difficult without basic financial literacy.
ALA, in partnership with the FINRA Investor Education Foundation, invites public libraries to apply to be part of a national tour of the traveling exhibition Thinking Money for Kids.
ALA is seeking contributing authors who would like to author projects in an upcoming book "Financial Literacy at the Library" (working title), edited by Kathy Rosa and Melanie Welch, to be published by ALA Editions.
This book on personal finance and financial literacy in libraries will include a robust section of program models featuring effective financial literacy-themed programs and activities. We hope for it to be an all-in-one recipe book for inspiring and creating innovative financial literacy programming that will be chock-full of practical project ideas for libraries.
Lakewood has historically been a very welcoming place for new Americans. Our area recently saw an influx of new residents from Southeast Asia, so we decided to host a financial literacy class for Nepali and Burmese-speaking people.
We regularly work with a group called Asian Services in Action (ASIA Inc.), so we decided to reach out to them since they had the expertise needed for the workshops. We held the program at our Madison branch, which is located in a neighborhood where a lot of immigrants settle.
This program was offered as part of Thinking Money, a traveling exhibit about financial literacy offered by the ALA Public Programs Office and the FINRA Foundation.
If you’re old enough to open a lemonade stand in your front yard, it’s time to consider a future as an entrepreneur.
