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The Creative Wealth Mission
To Empower People to Create Financial Freedom in their Lives!
The word EMPOWER means " to supply or equip with the ability ". Kids and teens do not realize that they are not getting the information they need because they don't know they need it until they become adults.
As a not-for-profit organization, we are here to supply kids, teens & adults with the tools and information that leads to the ability to be financially independent. One of our goals is to touch as many lives as possible with our information and that means both promoting financial literacy and providing tools to teach it. Our Camp Millionaire for Kids Curriculum was designed to help us reach these goals! As we continue to develop new programs, like our brand-new Moving Out! for Teens Curriculum and the exciting Wealth Rules! Curriculum, the mission will always guide us toward empowering kids and teens to create financial freedom in their lives.
In our Creative Wealth for Adults and Creative Wealth for Women programs, we provide a safe place for adults to learn 'how money works' and create an environment where they can begin to explore their beliefs and attitudes about money, wealth, poverty and being broke. This is why our curriculums include a large psychological component; only when we understand how our beliefs and attitudes affect our behaviors and choices in an area of our lives can we begin to create change in that area. We want you to not only learn basic personal money management skills but be able to go home and immediately put the Creative Wealth principles into daily practice.
We find adults are often embarrassed and ashamed at their lack of financial knowledge. During our programs they find out that they are not alone. With 75% of Americans living month-to-month, paycheck-to-paycheck, this tells us that not only are kids not getting this critically important life skill but most adults struggle each day with their personal finances as well.
In addition, we see that actions truly speak louder than words. Human beings learn best by example and what poorer an example could we have than our city, state and federal governments that continually spend more than they bring in, acquiring more and more debt. We need to change our financial culture individually before we see a change globally but with each person that learns to be financially independent instead of dependent on credit, parents, government programs, etc. we do make a difference. You can make a difference too by calling your local, state and federal representatives and letting them know that financial literacy in this county has got to be a priority!
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