Minn. Credit Unions Teach Thousands of Kids the Ins and Outs of Smart Money Management
Topline Recognized as Statewide Top Student Financial Literacy Educator
(firmenpresse) - MAPLE GROVE, MN -- (Marketwired) -- 09/26/13 -- The recently reported that Minnesota credit unions reached more than 4,400 students during the 2012-2013 school year. Local credit union contributed to this successful outreach by reaching over 1,350 of the reported 4,400 students through more than 30 presentations its staff delivered to students across the Twin Cities during the last school year.
A longstanding supporter of , TopLine reaches students through local educational programs including Hennepin Technical College's (GEAR UP), helping middle school students in Fridley and Robbinsdale prepare for post-secondary education; as well as the Personal Finance Summer Institute for College Readiness, reaching area high school students. In addition, TopLine leads personal money management educational sessions each October at the Annual Leadership Summit, and runs quarterly free community classes at its own TopLine Maple Grove Learning Center.
Everyone -- members and non-members alike -- are welcome to attend TopLine's ™ program at its Maple Grove location, which offers three age-specific classes, each offered four times a year. explores the concepts of spending, saving and sharing for ages 5-8; explores the concepts of needs vs. wants, as well as planning and spending wisely, for ages 9-13; and explores sound money management, including using credit wisely and identity theft prevention, for ages 14-18. For more information on the next Get Smart with Your Money sessions, visit .
"Teaching children and youth about sound money management is a deeply valued commitment of ours -- it's really a part of TopLine's very DNA. So we are proud to learn that TopLine helped educate nearly one in three of the students Minnesota credit unions reached through financial literacy seminars last school year," says Harry Carter, President and CEO, TopLine Federal Credit Union. "We've worked hard to maximize our reach by building enduring partnerships with local schools and organizations like GEAR UP, the MCEE and the MSCSA, as well as delivering our own free seminars to the community."
, a Twin Cities-based credit union, is Minnesota's 13th largest, with assets of more than $340 million. Established in 1935, the not-for-profit cooperative offers a complete line of financial services, as well as auto and home insurance, from its five locations -- in -- as well as by phone and online at . Membership is available to anyone who lives, works, worships, attends school or volunteers in Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott or Washington Counties and their immediate family members.
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