Jump$tart Coalition

First convened in December, 1995, the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy determined that the average student who graduates from high school lacks basic skills in the management of personal financial affairs. Many are unable to balance a checkbook and most simply have no insight into the basic survival principles involved with earning, spending, saving and investing.

Many young people fail in the management of their first consumer credit experience, establish bad financial management habits, and stumble through their lives learning by trial and error. The Coalition´s direct objective is to encourage curriculum enrichment to ensure that basic personal financial management skills are attained during the K-12 educational experience. The wheels of education do not need to be reinvented, they simply require balance.

The 2010 Jump$tart Coalition
Annual Awards Dinner!

Please join us for a gala celebration of financial literacy in April of 2010-financial literacy month-here in Washington, DC. The 2010 Jump$tart Coalition Annual Awards Dinner will be held April 14, 2010, at the Renaissance Washington, DC hotel. During the ceremony, Jump$tart will honor two National Leaders, a state coalition of the year, and the prestigious Odom Award winner. In addition, the National Foundation for Credit Counseling (NFCC), a Jump$tart partner and board member, will announce the winner of its annual poster contest during the program! Please click here to see the pledge form for more information or call Jump$tart staff-David Casserly at 202-466-8604 or by e-mail dcasserly@jumpstart.org.


The Jump$tart Coalition thanks the sponsors, exhibitors, speakers, board and committee members, staff, volunteers, and many, many others who helped make the first National Educator Conference such a success. Thank you for making this possible.		Most importantly, Jump$tart thanks the teachers who came to Washington, DC, from 46 states across the country; who gave up their weekend to improve the way that they teach personal finance to the next generation of American consumers--our kids! Thank you for what you do every day!
November 6-8, 2009 Capital Hilton Washington, DC


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Jump$tart Conference Celebrates Teachers, Partners, Supporters and Financial Literacy! "Counting on Financial Literacy!" That's the theme of the Jump$tart Coalition annual report for 2008. In these dire times, it is imperative that our nation's students have the knowledge and skills they need to manage their personal finances. They need to count on themselves and their financial literacy to make their way in a complicated world. Click here to see the accomplishments and activities in 2008 of not only the Jump$tart Coalition itself but also the Jump$tart national partners and the many state coalitions. . President's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy 2008 Annual Report to the President "On January 22, 2008, President George W. Bush signed an executive order creating, for the first time, a President's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy. The charge was simple, yet daunting: improve financial literacy among all Americans. After an exciting year of work toward this goal, I believe we have made tremendous progress at laying the groundwork for a comprehensive effort to achieve this goal. I am pleased, on behalf of the Council, to present the first annual report to the President, which details the progress we made this year and outlines a series of recommendations for future initiatives that will help the country achieve the level of financial literacy that is imperative in today's global economy…"
	Charles R. Schwab Chairman, President's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy Founder, Chairman and CEO, the Charles Schwab Corporation
Please click here to view the full report.


		Jump$tart's aim is to identify high-quality personal finance materials for educational use. The Clearinghouse is a database of personal finance resources available from a variety of education providers such as government, business and non-profit organizations. Once you find a material of interest, you can order it directly from the source. Many of the materials are low cost or free of charge. Teachers often use these personal finance teaching materials to support their state's standards in economics, business, math and family and consumer science.




Visa Financial Soccer Fact Sheet

About Financial Soccer	Financial Soccer is a free, 2010 FIFA World Cup^TM branded video game, combining the world's most popular sport with an award-winning financial literacy curriculum. Financial Soccer challenges players to answer fast-paced, multiple-choice money management questions correctly to advance down the field for a chance to score a goal. The game offers single player and head-to-head game play options and is being translated into a dozen different languages. The game features three difficulty levels - geared to children, teens and adults. Players learn key concepts about saving, spending, budgeting, and the wise use of credit.
How to Play Financial Soccer	Financial Soccer can be played for free at www.financialsoccer.com. Disc copies of the game can also be ordered at no cost at www.practicalmoneyskills.com/free. The game also includes companion classroom lesson modules for teachers who want to expand and reinforce greater financial learning. Each module features: Narrative overview of the concepts to be taught. Goals and objectives of the lesson. Teaching notes to help educators structure their lessons. A discussion section for teachers and students to talk through how the information learned would apply in real-life situations. An activity section for group exercises and quizzes.
Financial Soccer Around the World	Financial Soccer will roll out in over a dozen countries in the months leading up to the 2010 FIFA World Cup^TM. The game, which went live in Brazil on September 15, the United States on September 23 and Mexico on September 29, is available at www.financialsoccer.com. Financial Soccer comes on the heels of Visa's financial literacy video game developed with the NFL and NFL PLAYERS. That game has been distributed by 25 state governments to every public high school in those states.
About Practical Money Skills for Life	Financial Soccer is part of Practical Money Skills for Life, Visa's free, award-winning, financial education program. The program contains comprehensive money management resources and lesson plans tailored for use at home and in the classroom. The game is the latest component of Visa's decade-long commitment to financial literacy which has helped millions of people worldwide learn how to manage their money wisely.
For More Information	For more information, or to speak with a Visa representative, contact Jason Alderman at 415-932-2110 or jalderma@visa.com.

The National Financial Capability Challenge is a non-monetary awards program designed to increase the financial knowledge and capability of high-school aged youth across the United States. It challenges youth to take control of their financial future by learning more about personal finance, and it challenges teachers and schools to incorporate the important information and topics into their curricula.

All U.S. high-school aged students (ages 13-19) are encouraged to take part in the Challenge. Teachers, schools, school districts, home-school parents, and youth groups can register to participate. If you are a high school teacher, home-school parent, youth group leader, principal or superintendent, you can sign up for the Challenge between December 15, 2009 and March 1, 2010.

For more information, go to: http://www.challenge.treas.gov/.

Jump$tart Coalition - 2010 Meeting/Events Proposed Schedule

First Quarter Board Meeting

AICPA Building, Washington, DC

Jump$tart Special Event Fundraising Dinner

Renaissance Washington DC, Hotel

Second Quarter Board, Partner, State Leader and Committee Meetings

Renaissance Washington DC, Hotel

Financial Literacy Day on Capitol Hill

Precise location to be determined; scheduled for Senate side

Third Quarter Board Meeting

Telephonic Meeting for All Board Members

Fourth Quarter Board, Partner, and Committee Meetings

Precise Date and Location are tentative: The goal is to hold this meeting in conjunction with our next national teacher conference.

Jump$tart National Educator Conference

Precise date and location to be determined.

	Jump$tart Reality Check It's your life, right? And you can live as you want to. Or can you? Click here to get a Reality Check on the lifestyle you want once you're on your own!

The 2010 "12 Principle Calendars" Are Now Out of Stock! A Special Thank You to Capital One! The response to our 2010 Calendars has been overwhelming, and our entire stock has been depleted! Thank you for your requests, and thanks, too, to Capital One for sponsoring the calendar. You can still download the calendar by clicking on the PDF version link below and printing it on your color printer. The Jump$tart Coalition® has developed these twelve personal finance principles for young people to connect to their financial futures. Once again this year, these practical, everyday ideas are sponsored by Capital One®. If followed, these principles can help students can get a student's financial life off to a "playful" and successful start! If you would like to download a PDF version of the calendar, please click here. Please click HERE if you would like to see lessons plans developed around the 12 Principles.

THE FINANCIAL LITERACY OF YOUNG AMERICAN ADULTS - CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD

Support for the survey provided by the Merrill Lynch Foundation.

THE FINANCIAL LITERACY
OF YOUNG AMERICAN ADULTS

Results of the 2008 National Jump$tart Coalition
Survey of High School Seniors and College Students

By
Lewis Mandell, Ph.D.
University of Washington and the Aspen Institute
For the Jump$tart Coalition® for Personal Financial Literacy

The 2008 national Jump$tart survey of high school seniors was the sixth such biennial survey and completed the first ten years of measuring financial literacy in the United States. In 2008, the Jump$tart Coalition also conducted its first national survey designed to measure the financial literacy of college students. The two surveys present contrasting results. The financial literacy of high school students has fallen to its lowest level ever, with a score of just 48.3 percent. The average score for college students on the same 31 question exam, however, was 62.2 percent, nearly 15 percentage points above that of high school seniors. In fact, if measured on the high school senior base of 48.3 percent, college students actually did nearly 29 percent better. In addition, scores improved for every year of college with seniors averaging 64.8 percent. The good news is that American college graduates are close to being financially literate and probably will be so with more life experience. The bad news is that just 25 percent of our young adults are graduating from college and this number appears to have stabilized. This means that 75 percent of young American adults are likely to lack the skills needed to make beneficial financial decisions.

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The Coalition produces a quarterly newsletter called the "Jump$tart Update" designed to keep educators informed about personal finance education tools and concepts, sample lesson plans, upcoming events and the activities of the Coalition and member organizations.

Receive a sample copy of the newsletter by calling (202) 466-8604.

Order online by clicking here.