Money Smart Week began as a coordinated effort of the Money
Smart Advisory Council, a diverse group of more than 40
Chicago-area organizations working together to promote personal
financial literacy. Michael Moskow, who was Chicago Fed president
at that time, convened the Council's first meeting in July 2001,
during which members agreed to share resources and ideas to achieve
greater public awareness of the programs and services available in
the city of Chicago. The result was Money Smart Week 2002 six days
of focused presentations by community groups, financial
institutions, government agencies, educational organizations, and
financial experts, all designed to help consumers learn to better
manage their personal finances. The effort would showcase different
programs, help consumers get information, bring together different
organizations many for the first time and help these organizations
share expertise and leverage limited resources. Today, Money Smart
Week is much broader in scope and continues to expand, creating new
partnerships, heightened exposure, and substantive events. The
Money Smart Week model has grown beyond Chicago with successful
campaigns taking place in states such Indiana, Michigan, Texas,
Utah, and Wisconsin) and new cities joining every year.
http://www.chicagofed.org/webpages/education/msw/history.cfm
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Title: Money Money Honey Bunny Topic: Money Smarts for Children
Audience: Preschool & Parents "Promotional materials were
absolutely wonderful. I used all of the bookmarks in various
different ways; one set had a bibliography of adult references
while another one was used for coin rubbing. I glued one each; a
pennie, nickel, dime and quarter to the back of a bookmark and
introduced the concept of value in story time. With the aid of
parents, the children made coin rubbings and I allowed them to keep
those bookmarks. I copied other bookmarks as designed by you and
let the children "shop for books and other materials" in our
library. I provided shopping carts, cash registers, and empty
grocery boxes for the activity. It was wonderful, absolutely
wonderful and I received raves on the program." -- Sandra Cooke,
Sherrills Ford Branch Library, North Carolina
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Photos by Naperville Public Library
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Money Smart for Children: Dollars & Sense Reality Fair
Photos by Naperville Public Library
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Title: It's Money Baby Topic: Teen Financial Planning Audience:
Age 15-18 Title: Budgeting 101 Topic: The Basics of Budgeting
Audience: Teens & Adults Displays were featured in the
children's, teen, and adult sections of our library highlighting
books, DVDs, and other resources available in-house or on the web.
Karen Hopkins, Converse County Library, Wyoming
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Photos by North Dakota State University
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Title: Basics of Investing Topic: Investing/Stock Market
Audience: Adults Title: You Earned It, Now Protect It! Preventing
Financial Fraud Topic: Fraud Audience: Adults We are just getting
started in implementing our "Smart investing @ your library grant
from the FINRA Foundation. Participating in Money Smart Week will
be a big part of the program next year when our programming
schedule is completely organized. Since we got such a late start
this year I am pleased that we were able to have one program.
Barbara Roberts, Pelham Public Library, Alabama
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Photos by Greenwood County Library
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Title: Estate Planning Topic: Estate Planning Audience: Seniors
Title: Social Security Retirement Info. Session Topic : Social
Security Retirement Audience : Seniors For the first year, I think
attendance was pretty good. We did get a lot of great feedback and
I think the community would respond well to this being a yearly
thing. I believe attendance would increase each year. It was a good
opportunity to promote library resources related to each topic. I
made some good partnerships with people in the community who came
to speak, and will use those in the future not just for Money Smart
purposes. Katie Head, Greenwood County Library, South Carolina