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Money Savvy Generation
WHAT WE DO:
Since 1999, Lake Bluff, IL-based Money Savvy Generation has been developing innovative products and services to help parents, educators and others teach kids the skills of basic personal finance. The company's mission is to empower kids to take control of their financial lives and, in turn, their futures. Money Savvy Generation offers an award-winning line of products featuring their family of patented, award-winning 4-chambered banks, including the beloved Money Savvy Pig piggy bank, a corresponding scripted curriculum for elementary-aged children and a separate curriculum for pre-teens and teens. For more information, please visit www.msgen.com .
WHAT WE OFFER:
- Money Savvy Pig® educational piggy bank for kids - Money Savvy Generation is the creator of the beloved Money Savvy Pig® piggy bank, an award-winning, patented 4-chambered bank that helps parents, grandparents, educators and others teach children (ages 4-11) basic money management skills and enlighten them about the choices they have for their money: SAVE, SPEND, DONATE and INVEST. These unique banks have separate chambers for each money choice and each chamber empties through a separate foot on the bottom of the bank. Each bank includes goal-setting stickers and an easy-to-follow parent handbook to help begin the conversation about money. Other 4-chambered banks available are Moolah, the Money Savvy Cow® and the Money Savvy Football®.
- Money Savvy Kids™ & Money Savvy U™ Curricula - Money Savvy Generation developed the EIFLE (Excellence in Financial Literacy Education) award-winning Money Savvy KidsTM Basic Personal Finance curriculum for children (grades K-5) to help educators teach young students basic money management concepts including money choices as represented by the Money Savvy Pig® piggy bank. This fully-scripted, spirally constructed curriculum meets NCTM (National Council for Math Teachers) standards and teaches children basic money management skills including how to set goals, budget, spend wisely and how to express themselves philanthropically. They also developed the Money Savvy Kids @Home curriculum as a one-on-one version of this classroom curriculum which is easily used at home by parents and children.
- For pre-teens and teenagers (Grades 6-10), the company created Money Savvy UTM - an intermediate personal finance curriculum that teaches young adults how to budget, balance a checkbook, understand compound interest, how to manage credit and invest wisely. This curriculum includes the award-winning Cash Cache® Personal Finance Organizer for each student so they can practice what they learned in the classroom. Money Savvy Generation's curricula is taught nation-wide and has been proven to have a positive impact on children's knowledge of and attitudes about money. For more information about the curricula please visit (http://www.msgen.com/assembled/curriculum.html).
WHAT WE NEED:
Money Savvy Generation is committed to help improve financial literacy in our children and young adults in communities across the nation. We are looking to build awareness of our new and existing personal finance teaching tools for children and expand distribution of our materials and products across the U.S.
WHAT'S NEW:
Millionaire Kids Club book series receives prestigious EIFLE Award
The Millionaire Kids Club book series, created by Susan Beacham, financial literacy expert and CEO of Money Savvy Generation, and New York Times best-selling author Lynnette Khalfani-Cox, has been honored with the prestigious EIFLE award for Excellence in Financial Literacy Education in the category of Retail Book of the Year for Children's Money Management. The series of four smart, creative and beautifully illustrated picture books use funny and engaging stories to demonstrate how a group of childhood friends learn there are four things you can do with your money: Save, Spend, Donate and Invest. These perfect-bound books (for ages 7-12) are available at www.msgen.com or by calling 866-390-5959.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Melinda Voelcker
847-234-9477 x203
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