Un favorcito: Please help Kiva win a million dollars! Go to http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/1112149, add the app, click to vote and you’re done! REPOST FROM THE KIVA FELLOWS BLOG By Sheethal Shobowale, KF9, Peru Doris, one of the loan officers at Asociación Arariwa, has been working with clients in Urubamba and Cusco for 17 years. I sat [...]
Posts Tagged ‘financial literacy’
13 Jul
WNYC – News – Many New Yorkers Live in Zip Codes Without Banks
I heard this on the radio this morning. This sounds like the Lower East Side of Manhattan before they started the LES People’s Federal Credit Union. Now the neighborhood has changed and there are many banks in the WNYC – News – Many New Yorkers Live in Zip Codes Without Banks – NEW YORK, NY [...]
30 Jun
Expiration of mayoral control of NYC schools
This is sad because of the ridiculousness of the senate to waste our money but mostly because our children’s educations will suffer, financial and otherwise. STATEMENT BY GEOFFREY CANADA ON EXPIRATION OF MAYORAL CONTROL LEGISLATION NEW YORK, NY – Geoffrey Canada, Chairman of the Board of Learn NY, released the following statement regarding the expiration [...]
2 Jun
Cincinnati Public Schools to teach financial concepts in K-12
I have read several articles about schools mandating financial literacy curricula. Here’s one from the Cincinnati Business Courier – Cincinnati Public Schools Superintendent Mary Ronan introduced on Tuesday a plan to teach a financial education to CPS students from kindergarten through grade 12. Ronan made the announcement at a news conference with Ohio Auditor Mary Taylor. [...]
