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| Title: | 10 Questions to ask When Choosing A Financial Planner |
| Type of Material: | PDF or Print |
| Price: | Free |
| Description: | This brochure provides a checklist of questions to ask while interviewing and evaluating several people before selecting your personal financial planner. Questions focus on topics such as the planner's experience, qualifications, services offered, payment for services, and whether the planner has been publicly disciplined by any government or professional regulatory organization. Further Information and Order/link >> |
| Title: | 21st Century Money Management |
| Type of Material: | DVD |
| Price: | $399.00 for 5-DVD set. $89 for individual DVD |
| Description: | 21st CENTURY MONEY MANAGEMENT 5-DVD set contains the following titles: Checking Accounts, Saving, Credit Cards, Loans, and Financial Planning. Young people learn the basics of online banking and gain important knowledge and skill in how to manage money successfully. Further Information and Order/link >> |
| Title: | 26 Financial Things to Teach Your Parents |
| Type of Material: | Book (print), |
| Price: | $10.95 |
| Description: | 26 FINANCIAL THINGS TO TEACH YOUR PARENTS is an informative, easy-to-understand book that is designed to encourage financial dialogue between the generations on topics such as credit, saving, and financial behavior. Readers of all ages will find money tips they can use for themselves and/or their parents. Further Information and Order/link >> |
| Title: | 40 Money Management Tips Every College Freshman Should Know |
| Type of Material: | Student Workbook |
| Price: | Free |
| Description: | This booklet, developed with Scholarshop, offers tips for students facing the prospect of a college education. A single copy of the publication may be obtained by submitting a request in writing. Please include a return street address, and allow three to four weeks for delivery. Further Information and Order/link >> |
| Title: | 5 Laws of Credit For Your Personal Credit & Financial Freedom |
| Type of Material: | Book |
| Price: | $15.89 |
| Description: | 5 LAWS OF CREDIT provides simple approach to understanding the criteria lenders such as banks, car dealerships and landlords use when considering a person's creditworthiness. The 5 Laws address a person's character, conditions (such as length of employment and income level) capital (net worth) collateral (things you own) and cash flow (does your income exceed your expenses?). Further Information and Order/link >> |
| Title: | A Consumer's Guide to E-Payments |
| Type of Material: | Brochure, Pamphlet |
| Price: | Free |
| Description: | Most consumers use credit or debit cards to pay for online purchases, but other payment methods, like e-wallets, are becoming more common. This FTC brochure provides tips on how to make your online transactions as safe and secure as possible. Although you cannot control fraud and deception on the Internet, you can take steps to recognize it, avoid it and report it. The brochure tells how.
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| Title: | A Financial Flower Garden |
| Type of Material: | Online Lesson Plan |
| Price: | FREE |
| Description: | A FINANCIAL FLOWER GARDEN helps students expand their knowledge of whole number computation by solving multiplication and division problems. Students use online technology and other reference materials to research their projects. The United States Mint H.I.P. Pocket Change Web site (www.usmint.gov/kids) offers many additional free educational resources in personal finance.
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| Title: | A Gift for Mama: Lesson Plan |
| Type of Material: | no |
| Price: | Free |
| Description: | In this lesson, students read a story about a young girl, Sara. Having always made gifts, Sara wants to buy a gift for Mama. Students create/illustrate a booklet describing Sara's and their short-term savings goals. Lesson uses the children's book, A GIFT FOR MAMA, by Esther Hautzig. Further Information and Order/link >> |
| Title: | A Money Adventure: Earning, Saving, Spending, Sharing |
| Type of Material: | no |
| Price: | $500 includes 24 student books, 1 teacher's guide, A Big Book, an audiotape, a card game and simulated money |
| Description: | A MONEY ADVENTURE helps children learn how to start and run a business, earn and save money, and use a bank account. Children learn that choices involve both costs and benefits, and that running a business involves both risks and rewards. They create their own earning and saving plans, and display business financial data in graph form. Further Information and Order/link >> |
| Title: | A Penny Saved |
| Type of Material: | cartoon-style booklet Also available in Spanish Language. |
| Price: | No Charge |
| Description: | "A Penny Saved" explains why and how people save, and the importance of saving to the U.S. economy. The booklet focuses on advantages and disadvantages of various savings methods, such as U.S. Savings Bonds, stocks, and mutual funds. The concept of compound interest is explained. All public info materials are for download only on the website, www.ny.frb.org Further Information and Order/link >> |
| Title: | A Penny Saved: How Money Grows |
| Type of Material: | DVD |
| Price: | $89 |
| Description: | The video and teaching guide help students understand the power of compound interest or how money can grow with time. Use A PENNY SAVED to teach the basics of interest, compounding, liquity, yield, inflation, and savings choices. Further Information and Order/link >> |
| Title: | A Student's Introduction to Insurance |
| Type of Material: | no |
| Price: | $2.80 |
| Description: | A STUDENT'S INTRODUCTION TO INSURANCE explains the concepts, principles and origins of insurance. Students learn about the most common types of insurance: LIFE, HEALTH and AUTO. Typical auto insurance coverages are explained, including bodily injury liability, personal injury protection, property damage liability, collision, comprehensive, and uninsured motorist coverage. Also included are teen crash statistics, what to do if you are involved in an accident, and tips on reducing premiums. Further Information and Order/link >> |
| Title: | A Woman's Guide to Investing |
| Type of Material: | no |
| Price: | $15.95 |
| Description: | A WOMAN'S GUIDE TO INVESTING provides essential information women need to make smart financial decisions. This guide encourages women, including young adults and college women, to define their financial goals. It explains how to make smart investment decisions, protect assets, manage risk, deal with fraud, choose financial advisors, and be prepared for the achievements and the challenges of the future. Further Information and Order/link >> |
| Title: | A Woman's Guide to Personal Finance |
| Type of Material: | no |
| Price: | $15.95 |
| Description: | A Woman's Guide to Personal Finance offers practical advice for managing money, investing, planning for retirement, and knowing how to deal with the unexpected, such as divorce, widowhood, and debt. The book also has a section on estate planning and wills, and helpful information for women business owners. Further Information and Order/link >> |
| Title: | Adding Pennies, Nickels and Dimes |
| Type of Material: | Online Lesson Plan |
| Price: | Free |
| Description: | ADDING PENNIES, NICKELS AND DIMES activity has students add and organize the coins to display a variety of price values from real life examples. The United States Mint H.I.P. Pocket Change Web site (www.usmint.gov/kids) offers many additional free educational resources in personal finance. Further Information and Order/link >> |
| Title: | Adventures in Moneypur |
| Type of Material: | no |
| Price: | $4.99 + $4 towards postage |
| Description: | ADVENTURES IN MONEYPUR is an engaging allegory that presents personal finance as an important, mysterious and adventurous world. Its objective is to engage and enlighten children and teens on common practices in personal finance, touching on aspects of allowances, recordkeeping, investment and freedom from money worries. Readers will encounter challenging characters such as Buyingitis, or buying things without thinking, and Conformus, that is, peer pressure to mindlessly follow another person's spending patterns.
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| Title: | Affluenza |
| Type of Material: | Teaching Guide, Video, DVD |
| Price: | $59.00 |
| Description: | AFFLUENZA introduces students to the problem of overconsumption and its effects on individuals, families, society and the environment. It looks at our passion for shopping and how it can lead to financial stress. The film explores advertising strategies used to sell to young people. Affluenza examines forces that have transformed us from a nation that prized thriftiness to the ultimate consumer society. The Teaching Guide contains worksheets and an impressive list of books, periodicals, organizations and internet resources related to voluntary simplicity. In addition to the film itself with its greatly enhanced video and audio qualities, the DVD contains the following special features updating the information provided by the original film: 3 filmed interviews with filmmaker John de Graaf, voluntary simplicity expert Cecile Andrews, and economist Peter Dorman; 7 Adbusters "Uncommercials"; Teacher's Guide and separate Viewer's Guide in PDF format on the DVD-ROM portion of the disc.
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| Title: | Ahorros para la universidad: Lo que puede hacer hoy para cubrir los costos universitarios |
| Type of Material: | Booklet/Pamphlet, |
| Price: | |
| Description: | An easy-to-read introduction to savings tools for families preparing to make the investment in higher education. This four-page resource offers both parents and students tips on smart saving strategies and a brief description of the financial tools available, including 529 college savings plans, pre-paid tuition plans, and college rewards programs. Further Information and Order/link >> |
| Title: | Alexander's Coin Conundrum |
| Type of Material: | no |
| Price: | FREE |
| Description: | ALEXANDER'S COIN CONUNDRUM lesson is based on Judith Viorst's book "Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday". Students use several computation techniques to calculate how Alexander spends all of his money in no time at all. The United States Mint H.I.P. Pocket Change Web site (www.usmint.gov/kids) offers many additional free educational resources and classroom activities for personal finance. Further Information and Order/link >> |
| Title: | All About Banking |
| Type of Material: | no |
| Price: | 1.95 |
| Description: | Elementary students discover that savings accounts are kids' most important banking service. They also learn about the range of services offered by a typical bank. Topics include savings and checking accounts, loans, safe deposit boxes and ATMs. The publication also highlights FDIC insurance, the history of banking and the development of money. Further Information and Order/link >> |
| Title: | All About Checking Accounts |
| Type of Material: | Booklet/Pamphlet, Comic book format |
| Price: | $1.95 |
| Description: | ALL ABOUT CHECKING ACCOUNTS is one of a series of Ciphers booklets in comic book format that teach basic money and math concepts. This booklet addresses the advantages of a checking account, how to write checks, bank statements, automatic teller machines. It introduces the topics of high check-cashing fees and scams. Further Information and Order/link >> |
| Title: | All About Fractions |
| Type of Material: | Booklet/Pamphlet, Comic book format |
| Price: | $1.95 |
| Description: | ALL ABOUT FRACTIONS is one a series of Ciphers booklets in comic book format that teach math concepts. This booklet focuses on how people use fractions -- chefs, musicians, soldiers, scientists and football players. Students learn about numerators, denominators, and improper fractions, and how to use fractions in everyday life. Further Information and Order/link >> |
| Title: | All the Math You Need to Get Rich |
| Type of Material: | Book (print), |
| Price: | $10.17 |
| Description: | ALL THE MATH YOU NEED TO GET RICH explains the arithmetic of compound interest, mortgages, insurance, stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. The book has a humorous style, with anecdotes and cartoons. It takes the reader step by step through real life sample problems. It makes the math easy and motivates the reader. Further Information and Order/link >> |
| Title: | Allowances and Alternatives (Order Number 06117) |
| Type of Material: | no |
| Price: | $1.50 + S&H |
| Description: | Focus on allowances. Discusses pros and cons of allowances at any income level. Addresses common questions people ask about allowances. Provides a child-centered decision process on spending allowance money. Further Information and Order/link >> |
| Title: | An Exploration of Entrepreneurship |
| Type of Material: | no |
| Price: | $55 |
| Description: | AN EXPLORATION OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP introduces students to the skills needed to operate a successful business. Many students plan to open their own businesses. This two-part series helps students turn that passion into a career idea then learn how to make a living from that passion. The CD includes a section on financing and financial management of a business. Further Information and Order/link >> |
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