What’s Next?

Are you are serious about making a difference in the lives of young people through financial education? Choose one way you will dedicate your time to expand the opportunity for students to learn personal finance skills before graduation.

• Address your local school boards/public meetings on the need for personal finance

• Talk to your local businesses and ask them for financial support to provide after-school programs focused on financial capabilities

• Lobby local politicians (city councils, mayors) - inform and educate them on the need for financial education

• Address chambers, city councils for support of school-based education

• Work with charter and private schools to implement personal financial literacy education

• Identify teachers, school principals who support financial literacy education; work with them to implement personal financial education in their classrooms year long

• Get involved with classroom volunteer organizations, like Junior Achievement

• Support a financial evening at back-to-school events

• Involve Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, boys and girls clubs, etc. in providing financial literacy education through workshops, merit badge programs, etc.

• Work with your library to promote personal financial literacy through displays of children’s literature, teen “how – to” books and adult consumer information

• Involve business/fraternal organizations in the community, especially in working with high school students

• Arrange for financial literacy education to be discussed on local cable TV shows

• Develop personal stories of how financial literacy has made a difference in local peoples’ lives to persuade politicians of the importance of mandating it in schools

• Get involved with the PTA – use the power of parents