Financial Education Programs

American Bankers Association (ABA) Education Foundation
The ABA Education Foundation provides resources to bankers to enhance the public's knowledge of personal money management skills and banking services. The Foundation is a nonprofit subsidiary of the American Bankers Association. Sponsors the Consumer Connection web pages, a one-stop source for information and advice on banking and personal finance. The Foundation's products and programs provide a framework for bankers to educate consumers of all ages about budgeting, saving, and credit basics.

America's Community Bankers (ACB)
The ACB, in alliance with Compliance Coach, informs and educates community bankers on privacy compliance through PrivacyU.com. PrivacyU.com will provide ACB members with a number of applications including: Privacy Tools, Privacy Experts, Privacy Education, and Privacy Knowledge Vault.

Ernst & Young LLP Moneyopolis
Moneyopolis is an educational Web site for children in grades 6 through 8. A pro bono effort by Ernst & Young LLP, Moneyopolis provides tools and programs to assist in enhancing math, financial planning, decision-making, reading, and computer skills. It centers around a financial planning game based on assessment, goal setting, strategy setting, implementation, and review/adjust. The game allows children to move through various financial planning centers, managing money and working towards a defined goal. There are also materials for math teachers available to assist their students and to integrate the Web site into the classroom activities.

Fair Isaac and Company, Inc.
Fair Isaac provides the intelligence that helps companies make better decisions through data. They sparked a revolution in the financial services industry with the introduction of credit scoring, which helps lenders improve business performance, customer service and consumer access to credit. They lead an industry shift toward more open, informative and accessible credit information services that help people improve their overall financial health.

Financial Literacy Center
Financial Literacy Center, a division of Newkirk, is a leading publisher of financial planning newsletters, calendars, brochures, and books. Their publications help you educate your clients, prospects, and employees - and market your business in the process.

Genworth Center for Financial Learning
The Genworth Center for Financial Learning is a learning community that helps educate people to make informed decisions about their personal finances. It serves as a resource for consumers to learn about life-event planning, from preparing for college or saving for retirement, to choosing insurance plans.

Independent Means Inc.
The Independent Means is a company that offers a wide range of products and services for the financial independence of females under the age of 21. They host various programs, activities, conferences, and competitions encouraging the preparation of teenage women for an independent financial future.

Kid$ense
This site, from John Nuveen & Co., is mainly geared towards educating kids about earning, saving, investing, spending and sharing. Kid$ense offers a school-approved supplementary financial curriculum, developed by financial expert and author Neale Godfrey, that is currently available for grades K through 6. The curriculum includes textbooks, teaching materials, and instructional training. The lessons introduce children to the concept of money and how it works in society; buying, selling and trading, working, earning, saving, and investing.

Lincoln Financial Group
The LFG Financial Literacy Initiative is a class for high school juniors and seniors designed to teach the significance of making informed decisions regarding the use and management of money. Financial advisors are brought directly into the classroom to help students apply theories and methods of financial planning. The curriculum, structured to teach financial responsibility, includes learning points such as obtaining adequate income, managing money, saving methods, investing strategies, spending theories and practices, managing credit and creating a budget.

Morningstar, Inc.
Chicago-based Morningstar, Inc. is a provider of mutual fund, stock, and variable-insurance investment information. Morningstar has a special section on its website called Morningstar University, which offers courses and interactive quizzes about stocks and bonds.

Newkirk Productions, Inc.
Newkirk provides marketing communications for financial and healthcare companies. From its founding in 1972, Newkirk has created and produced printed communications that target customers and prospects - and help build businesses. Newkirk was one of the first communications companies to jump on board the wave of information technology, resulting in leading-edge communications that target individuals, not masses.

Practical Money Skills for Life
This online interactive financial literacy program is designed to teach responsible money management to high school and college students. From budgeting to saving and investing, Visa is committed to working with young adults to learn practical, real world money skills. Visa U.S.A. offers Choices & Decisions free to educators via (800) VISA-511 and a CD-ROM free to consumers via (888) VISA-606

Young Investors Network
The Young Investors Network, an educational site maintained by Smith Barney, is designed to teach children the basics of investing. There are also resources for parents and teachers.

Successful Money Management® Seminars, Inc. (SMMS,Inc.)
SMMS, Inc. is a leading provider of Personal Financial Education. Through education, they offer the answers to many of the questions consumers ask regarding a variety of personal finance topics. SMMS, Inc. does not sell investments, they license in-depth courses to financial professionals who then educate consumers and offer optional investment advice at the end of the course.

Wells Fargo Planning Centers
Various online tools, resources, and applications for financial planning are offered on Wells Fargo's Web site. They offer various useful tips and education with regard to credit cards, money management, education, home financing, and retirement planning.