What is Financial Literacy Month?
Financial Literacy Month is a nationwide, collaborative endeavor marked by a variety of activities and events across the country and throughout the month. In most years, it’s when our community celebrates achievements in improving the financial literacy of all Americans – especially our nation’s youth. How did it start? Financial Literacy Month was started as Youth Financial Literacy Day by the National Endowment for Financial Education. NEFE brought it to Jump$tart to promote among its 100+ Partners as Youth Financial Literacy Month and later, simply as Financial Literacy Month. Today, organizations across the country conduct events and initiatives throughout the month of April. #FinancialLiteracyMonth
Simple Ways to Share the Love
Each week we will post a different graphic with sample messages you can use to share with your audiences on social or in your communication tools.
April 1 FLM Kickoff Message:
#FinancialLiteracyMonth was started as Youth Financial Literacy Day by the National Endowment for Financial Education. @NEFE_ORG brought it to @NatlJumpStart to promote among its 100+ Partners as Youth Financial Literacy Month and later, simply as Financial Literacy Month. Today, organizations across the country conduct events and initiatives throughout the month of April. Cheers to Financial Literacy Month 2022! #FinancialLiteracyMonth
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#FinancialLiteracyMonth is an opportunity to start the conversation about money! @NatlJumpStart encourages parents to worry less about “teaching” their kids about money and focus more on TALKING about it. Most of us would be more open to a conversation than a lecture and raising your kids’ awareness about money opens the door to more ongoing conversations than “the big talk.”
No matter how much or how little we know about personal finance, we can advocate for our own kids. Ask if your child’s school offers financial education and if not, why not start? Learn more about our #CheckYourSchool campaign and find tools to get you started. #FinancialLiteracyMonth
#Financialliteracymonth wouldn’t be possible without the many organizations that share the vision of moving financial literacy forward! @natljumpstart is a coalition of more than 100 partners and 50 state coalitions that are dedicated to financial education. For more info, please visit Jumpstart.org.
Though #FinancialLiteracyMonth 2022 is coming to a close, the work to bring personal finance to life in our nation’s classrooms continues. Just ahead of #TeacherAppreciationWeek, which starts next week, Jump$tart Coalition pays tribute, once again, to the rock-star educators who are making #FinancialSmartsForStudents a reality.
Thank you to Representative Joyce Beatty and the Financial Literacy Caucus for H. Res. 285 designating April as #FinancialLiteracyMonth and raising awareness at the highest levels about the importance of effective financial education.
We are proud to announce the passage of S. Res. 588 designating April 2022 as ‘‘Financial Literacy Month.” It passed the Senate floor last night. We are so honored to have worked with Senator Jack Reed’s office on this resolution! Cheers to #FinancialLiteracyMonth and let’s keep moving financial literacy forward!