Tools and Resources
This section serves as a resource library for information and tools that AFI grantees can use in delivering effective financial education. Resources include “Tips and Tools,” the “Money Smart Series” which provides enhancements and assistance to AFI grantees in their use of the Money Smart financial education curriculum, as well as articles featuring promising practices used by grantees in their delivery of financial education to clients. This section also provides information on conference calls hosted by AFI on financial education topics.
· Articles on Financial Education Topics
Building off the AFI Program’s strategic collaboration with the FDIC, the goal of the Money Smart Series is to make the Money Smart curriculum as useful as possible to AFI grantees, by explaining the curriculum module-by-module and providing enhancements tailored to AFI grantees and their clients.
Each month in 2008, we will post a new installment of the series focusing on a different Money Smart curriculum module. In addition to explaining both the content and process contained in each module, the series will provide suggestions, additional information, and exercises to augment each module for different IDA target audiences. The exercises will focus on incorporating participatory methodology, the IDA context, and new instructional materials. Click on the title below to access each installment. To order the FDIC’s Money Smart curriculum, click here.
The Tips and Tools series provides a number of short pieces that offer AFI grantees advice, resources and useful information related to financial education efforts. Check back periodically as new additions to the series will be posted frequently.
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Tips and Tools #1 – How to Choose a Curriculum: How do you find a financial education curriculum that is right for your program? Click here for practical guidance to assist you in this important first step.
Articles on financial education topics:
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Assessment and Evaluation in Financial Education (forthcoming)