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Basic Personal Finance Programs

Money Smart
The FDIC created Money Smart as a training program to help adults outside the financial mainstream enhance their money skills and create positive banking relationships.

Credit Smart
This multilingual financial education curriculum and consumer outreach initiative by Freddie Mac was designed to help consumers build and maintain better credit, make sound financial decisions, and understand the steps to sustainable homeownership.

Credit When Credit is Due
This course by the American Center for Credit Education is designed to give consumers the information they need to understand how credit and debt work and to develop responsible money management strategies.

All My Money
This train-the-trainer curriculum from the University of Illinois Consumer and Family Economics Extension is designed to assist staff and volunteers in community agencies and social service organizations who work directly with limited-resource clientele.

Financial Fitness
NeighborWorks America, in conjunction with its national partners, offers the Financial Fitness program to help individuals and families develop sound money management skills

 
Youth Programs

Banking on Our Future
Operation HOPE offers the Banking on Our Future financial education program for youth ages 9-18 at no cost to school districts, with a focus on urban, under-served communities. The program teaches students about the basics of personal financial management, including banking, savings, credit, and investments, while also providing a message of empowerment, responsibility and hope.

 

NEFE High School Financial Planning Program
The National Endowment for Financial Education created this performance based learning program to help high school students learn how to make financial plans and budgets, manage credit and debt, and examine how their choices will affect their financial plan.

 

Money Smart for Young Adults
The FDIC’s Money Smart for Young Adults curriculum helps youth ages 12-20 learn the basics of handling their money and finances, including how to create positive relationships with financial institutions

 

Junior Achievement Programs
Junior Achievement offers programs for grades K-12 that prepare students for the real world by showing them how to generate wealth and effectively manage it, how to create jobs which make their communities more robust, and how to apply entrepreneurial thinking to the workplace.

 

Money Math: Lessons for Life
This curriculum supplement is offered by the US Treasury for middle school math classes, teaching grade 7-9 math concepts using real-life examples from personal finance.

 

Financial Fitness for Life
Created by the National Council on Economic Education, this is a comprehensive economic and financial literacy program for grades K-12.

 

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