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OCC's Community Affairs staff participates in a range of financial literacy initiatives in communities across the country to help consumers better navigate the increasingly complex financial landscape.
Get Smart About Credit Day
Get Smart About Credit is a financial education program created by the American Bankers Association that allows bankers to speak about responsible credit use with young adults in high school, college and in the workforce.
District Community Affairs Officer Karol Klim helps teach a Get Smart session at Benjamin Mays High School, 9th grade class. |
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OCC District Community Affairs Officer David Lewis teaching students about credit at the Univeristy of Texas in Arlington, Texas. |
Teach Our Kids to Save Day
Teach Children to Save Day was created by the American Bankers Association to spotlight the importance of teaching our nation's youth about saving money wherein bankers make presentations to students in grades K-12 about budgeting, saving, recognizing needs and wants and how interest makes money grow.
Deputy Comptroller for Community Affairs Barry Wides teaches student about needs vs. wants during Teach Children to Save day. |
National Consumer Protection Week
National Consumer Protection Week highlights consumer protection and education efforts around the country and encourages people from coast to coast to master the financial facts of life. Financial Literacy Week 2009 "Nuts and Bolts: Tools for Today's Economy," is tentatively scheduled for February 22 - March 1.
View the OCC's slideshow from the event.
Community Affairs representative Adrienne Mingione shares the new HelpWithMyBank.gov publication with event attendees. |
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Community Affairs staff Hershel Lipow and Adrienne Mingione explain OCC's financial literacy offerings to Congresswoman Judy Biggert. |
Financial Literacy Day on Capitol Hill
During, Financial Literacy Day on Capitol Hill, OCC staff aims to enhance consumer financial skills and extend the reach of banks' products and services to underserved or unbanked markets.
Monica Reas, Danielle English, Adrienne Mingione, Karen Bellesi, Hershel Lipow representing the OCC at the 2008 Financial Literacy Day on Capital Hill. |
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Barry Wides, Deputy Comptroller, spotlights consumer information and initiatives to Financial Literacy Day on Capitol Hill attendees (April, 28, 2008). |
National Academy of Finance
OCC has built a strong relationship with the National Academy of Finance (NAF), a nonprofit dedicated to preparing young people for careers in the fields of finance. The OCC has placed hundreds of students in internship opportunities at the agency's offices across the country.
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