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is a national coalition whose mission it is to promote financial literacy for youth. Please check out the national organization and do a search for your state coalition as well.
California Jump$tart’s Website
Links to Adult Financial Sites
Credit Talk – A money management resource that
Braun Mincher is a young and successful entrepreneur who found himself in the position to “retire” several years ago at the age of 30 a self-made multi-millionaire, even though he started with nothing and dropped out of college. He has learned a simple system for financial success and now pursues his passion of better educating ALL consumers (regardless of age, income or education level), and not just the business or financial savvy, on the topic of “Practical Financial Literacy,” with the philosophy that Financial Literacy = Financial Success. He has recently undertaken a nationwide initiative to bring a new awareness to the “Financial Illiteracy Epidemic” and is traveling the country to further this important cause.
Datalife.com – A Directory of Financial Services Sites.
Donna M. Phelan – A guide to help educate women with their finances by creating a Sisters Club with stackable income streams to empower retirement security. The site offers a free book chapter from Women, Money
Don’t Do Debt – Changing the face of predatory lending. Home of the new book, Credit Card Debt: It Can Cost You Your Life and other resources to educate consumers to prevent credit card debt.
A directory of all things financial. Includes mortgage and investing tips.
Federal Citizen Information Center, Pueblo, CO – Award-winning free federal info. on saving money, investing, getting federal benefits, buying cars and houses, staying healthy, parenting, solving consumer problems and more.
Financial Calculators – An excellent resource to calculate one’s assets and liabilities.
Financial Planning Association – Financial Planning Association® (FPA®). FPA is a nonprofit, membership organization for the financial planning community. Our members are dedicated to supporting the financial planning process in order to help people achieve their goals and dreams.
Investopedia.com – Your complete, unbiased, and easy to understand educational guide to investing and personal finance. The site includes the most comprehensive investing dictionary on the web as well as tutorials and articles covering just about every area of the market.
Institute for Financial Literacy – Founded in 2002, they are a nonprofit whose mission is to make effective financial literacy education available to all American Adults.
Merchant Service Group provides an array of electronic processing options to retail, restaurant, mail order, telephone order, and Internet businesses. Our services include credit, debit and EBT card processing, check conversion and guarantee.
A website full of information on your credit score!
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Online High School – JMHS online education offers an easy way to earn your high school diploma with a full high school curriculum, included single courses for those who home school.
Personal Finance Basics – A great source for educational materials about financial education.
Personal Finance Resource – Resource site for everything to do with personal finance. Full of newsletters, articles, links
Quicken.com – A software program that simplifies the task of paying
Share Builder – A guide to the simple way to invest for your future.
Smart Credit Tips – A great glossary of credit card terms.
USA Today –
Links to Kids/Teens Financial Sites
5 Steps Financial Aid Journey Series
provides both an interactive eBook and videos to help students learn about the importance of completing the FAFSA, estimating college costs, exploring financing options, and more.
https://www.wellsfargo.com/student/five-steps-financial-aid/
Career Kids
Career Kids offers a wide variety of guidance materials for grades K-12.
http://www.careerkids.com
American Savings Education Council’s “Youth & Money” survey
Surveys American high school and college students on their financial understanding and money management perceptions and practices
http://www.asec.org/youthsurvey.pdf
Institute of Consumer Financial Education’s Children and Money
Saving, spending, and credit info for both young people and their parents.
http://www.financial-education-icfe.org/children_and_money/index.asp
Investing for Kids
Designed by and for high-school students; includes quizzes, tutorials,
and a stock market simulation.
http://library.thinkquest.org/3096/index.htm
Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy
A clearinghouse for K-12 personal finance educational materials.
http://www.jumpstartcoalition.org/
Junior Achievement’s Young Money
Excerpts from a monthly magazine available by subscription.
http://www.ja.org/
Kidnexions
KidsSave is a savings program designed for kids ages 6 and up. KidsSave helps you and your child keep track of savings, encourages saving through Reward incentives, helps your child set and track goals, and allows your child to see their savings into the future.
http://www.kidnexions.com
The official interagency children’s portal to the U.S. Government. This kid-safe site features more than 400 kid-friendly links in one easy-to-find place. Kids can learn about everything from fighting crime and exploring the world to music and space.
http://www.kids.gov
KidsMoneyCents
Info on earning, spending, and saving money.
http://www.kidsmoneycents.com/
L-Curve
A cool site that shows kids and their parents the IDEA of large numbers.
http://www.lcurve.org
Money Chimp
A site that helps kids calculate compound interest. problems.http://www.moneychimp.com/features/rule72.htm
Making Change
Sites to teach kids how to make
http://www.funbrain.com/cashreg/
Money Dearest
Money Dearest is a warm and witty guide for the reader who would like to invest in the stock
http://www.thewritersplace.com/moneydearest/
Money Instructor
Teaching money skills and personal finance for ages K-12
http://www.moneyinstructor.com
Moolera
Investing and personal finance site targeting twenty- and thirty-somethings.
http://www.moolera.com/
MoonJar
A great place for some fun little things for kids.
http://www.moonjar.com/
Money Savvy Generation
http://www.msgen.com
Motley Fool Website
A great place to find all sorts of financial information, calculators, etc.
http://www.fool.com
National Academy of Finance
Financial curriculum coupled with paid internships for junior and senior high-school students
http://www.naf.org/theacademies/finance
National Council on Economic Education
Resources for economic education
http://www.ncee.net
Netstock Direct’s KidStock
How to earn money, plus tutorials on different types of investments.
http://www.kidstock.com/en/default.asp
Prodigy’s Kids’ Money Store
Order money-related games, books, banks, etc. online.
http://www.kidsmoneystore.com/
Prosperity 4 Kids
Child’s financial education book, piggy bank, other resources.
http://www.prosperity4kids.com
Rude Busters
Some serious and playful etiquette quizzes and manners tests
http://www.rudebusters.com/eti-quiz.htm
SEC’s “Test Your Money $marts”
http://www.sec.gov/investor/tools/quiz.htm
Social Security Administration’s “YouthLink”
Social Security information for teens and younger children.
http://www.ssa.gov/kids/
Stock Market Game (SMG2000)
An electronic simulation of Wall Street trading for students in grades 4-12, sponsored by the Securities Industry Foundation for Economic Education
http://www.smg2000.org/
Student DebtHelp
A great site for students about debt.
http://www.studentdebthelp.org
Surf Net Kids
http://www.surfnetkids.com
Teen Vester Books
Books to guide teens through investing.
http://www.teenvestor.com/teenvestor_books.htm
Links to Teacher’s Financial Sites
Career Kids
Career Kids offers a wide variety of guidance materials for grades K-12.
http://www.careerkids.com
Online High School
JMHS online education offers an easy way to earn your high school diploma with a full high school curriculum, included single courses for those who home school.
http://www.jmhsonline.com/
ByDesign Financial Solutions
ByDesign is a community-based organization, also known as Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Los Angeles
http://www.bydesignsolutions.org
orance Mann Educated Financial Solutions
This site offers a wealth of information and features for educators, parents