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UNITED WAY OF OCEAN COUNTY AND BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, INC. PARTNER FOR FINANCIAL LITERACY FOR YOUTH
Thanks to a $10,000 grant from Bank of America Charitable Foundation, United Way of Ocean County will implement a ground breaking Financial Literacy for Youth collaborative project focusing on 5th graders in Ocean County.
The Financial Literacy for Youth collaborative brings together United Way of Ocean County, Junior Achievement of New Jersey, and the Toms River School District, the largest school district in Ocean County.
Anu Gupta shares “ we chose to partner with Junior Achievement on this financial literacy curriculum targeting 5th graders because we became aware of national research that tells us that as little as 10 hours of financial literacy education are enough to promote healthy financial behaviors while youth are forming life-long habits that are much harder to influence once they have been established.”
Partnerships with organizations like Bank of America make it all possible.
"Bank of America's dedication to providing financial education to students stems from our overall commitment to help customers achieve their financial and life goals. Through these types of programs, we can build a financially educated world one student at a time," said Robert Doherty, New Jersey North/Central Market President.
The curriculum, called Biztown, takes 5th graders through 20 in-class sessions that teach financial literacy while supporting state mandated curriculums for math, English and social studies.
“At the end of the classroom sessions, students who complete the curriculum are quite literally transported to a place called Biztown in Pennsylvania, where they spend a day running a simulated town, with a Mayor, a bank, retail shops, even a television studio” says Lisa Giannascoli, Director of Programs for United Way of Ocean County.” The hands-on component of this curriculum, at Biztown, is the piece that make this project so unique, and ultimately so successful, because the kids universally love it, so naturally it stays with them .”
To learn more about United Way of Ocean County, Financial Literacy for Youth, or another United Way program, please visit www.uwocnj.org, or call us at 732-240-0311.
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