Here are other suggestions:

1. After donating the Kid$ense curriculum, to schools in the cities and neighborhoods where your company has facilities, encourage your employees to offer to visit classrooms and give presentations on your company’s business.

2. Highlight the children's financial literacy issue with your employees and provide parent-oriented information. We can help point out numerous resources, including interactive options and sites on the Web that are geared towards children’s financial education.

3. Spread the word about Kid$ense. In a study sponsored by the National Council on Economic Education, 66% of high school students tested on basic money skills scored an "F". Only 3% got and "A". Let's work to improve children's knowledge of money.

4. Check with your own children's schools to see what kind of financial education is being offered. The odds are that your kids or grandkids are receiving little or no money-skills lessons.

5. Talk about it. One of the best ways to get kids thinking about the importance of money, is to explain the importance of money.

6. Join the campaign. The more people focus on children's financial literacy, the more we'll be able to help kids develop these important life skills.

Where To Begin

The first step is to express interest. To learn more about the Kid$ense curriculum program and discuss ways for your company to participate, call 800.474.2424 and ask for Susan Degand at extension 7774.

What Can You Do?

You and your company can help in many ways, from supporting school-approved efforts in the classroom, to participating in awareness-building programs, to encouraging your employees to reach out in the community, to sitting own with your own kids to talk about the facts of money. Surveys show parents want schools to teach their children money skills. Few schools have financial education as part of the standard curriculum, especially in grades K-6. Helping make the supplementary Kid$ense curriculum available at more schools tops the list of ways in which companies can immediately support children’s financial literacy in their home communities and elsewhere.
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