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Resources and LinksThe Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy seeks to improve the personal financial literacy of young adults. Jump$tart's purpose is to evaluate the financial literacy of young adults; develop, disseminate, and encourage the use of standards for grades K-12; and promote the teaching of personal finance. The Jump$tart Coalition believes that all young adults need to have the financial literacy necessary to make informed financial decisions. Save for America Established in 1982, Save for America has helped hundreds of thousands of grade school students realize the importance of saving money for their future. Save for America helps introduce children to a variety of skills that will be important when they become adults. Practical Money Skills: From Budgeting to saving and investing, Visa is committed to working with young adults to learn practical, real-world money skills ShareBuilder is a simple, flexible, and affordable way to build wealth through long-term investing. Using ShareBuilder, you can make regular automatic investments in stocks, index funds and closed-end bond funds. There are no account minimums and we don't have inactivity fees! Personal Finance Puzzle: This is just one of the amazing financial puzzles you will solve as you devour your way through the secrets of financial success! MoneyopolisSM is an educational Web site for children in grades six through eight. The site was created to ensure that American school children have an opportunity to learn basic financial planning concepts. A pro bono effort by Ernst & Young LLP, MoneyopolisSM will provide tools and programs to assist the education community in enhancing basic skills FleetKids: What is FleetKids about? It's about encouraging learning through inquiry and getting kids started out on the path to money smarts. It's also about showing kids that money smarts isn't just earning, earning, earning until you're blue in the wallet. Money smarts means working hard, saving, and investing. And giving something back to the people who helped you out when you needed it and to people who can reach out and help others. Each time your students learn about financial concepts, they'll be earning points which your school can redeem for technology-based rewards. YOUNG MONEY was founded for one simple reason: Overall, there's a gap big enough to drive a truck through when it comes to understanding the concept of smart money management in the 21st century. Fool.com Want to be a Millionaire? You can! The world is full of empty promises. Advertisements tell us to buy an amazing cream because it will make us beautiful, or to buy that weird-looking contraption because it will tone our muscles and make us popular. And here comes the Fool, with another promise. Invest money now and we'll help make you a millionaire, or at least comfortably well-off in your adulthood. Gee, that sounds even less believable than the beauty cream, doesn't it? But it's true. You can print this out and take it to your math teacher, and she can verify it. The Money paper Inc. The Power of Compounding! You Can Turn Your Favorite Youngster Into a Millionaire! It can be as easy as investing as little as $50/month ($600/year) for five years (Results are based on an 11% return) Investors who wait until they are 26 years of age will not achieve these results, even if they invest $2,000 a year, for their entire working life. Young Investor.com This site was developed by Columbia Funds This site contains a wealth of knowledge to help you teach your young investor about money and investing. Invest It gives information on investing in stocks, bonds and mutual funds. Plan It focuses on how to save and budget money. Earn It explores ways to earn money. Play It adds the element of fun to the learning process. As parents, you are able to view all the information that is displayed on the site for kids and teens. We have color coded the content to help you distinguish content for children 13 and under (KIDS) from that for children 14 and over (TEENS): Yellow dots is content for KIDS Blue dots is content suitable for both KIDS and TEENS Green dots is content for TEENS Strong Kids.com Strong Financial Corp. Take a look in the Toolbox for interactive calculators to help you with your investing needs. Use "The Ladder" to figure out if you are on track to afford any item that you want to buy. Check out "The Tape Measure" to see how a little amount of money invested each month may grow over time. Also, put on your Hard Hat and take our Mutual Fund quiz. Stock Market Game This Web Site is Slow But Interesting The MyStocks page is the one-stop place where you can trade stocks with virtual money. The Global Stock Game (GSG) is the world's most realistic stock market simulation, where you can have fun and learn the stock market at no cost. Yes, it is 100% FREE. In addition, it's is easy enough to use even if you know little or nothing about the stock market. Even seasoned investors use this Web site to test their investing strategies before placing real orders in the stock market. One Share.com You know the value of investing in stocks. Now you can pass that knowledge down through our "My First Stock"® Program. Choose your favorite stock, select a wood or metal frame, click Yes for "My First Stock"®, and we'll package your order with fun projects, online games, an investment guide that teaches kids to be owners and not just consumers.
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