Economic Literacy Colorado

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We are proud to announce Mazza FarajAllah as the 2024 JA Shooting Star of the Year! The inaugural winner of this award, Mazza, in just over three years with the Western Union Foundation, has played an essential role in the company's support of JA. This year, she coordinated more than 120 Western Union employees to participate in the JA Bowl-A-Thon, raising over $22,000.

Read more about Mazza and her involvement with JA: https://www.jarockymountain.org/ja-awards-mazza-farajallah-the-2024-shooting-star-of-the-year/

🌟 Big News! 🌟

After 53 years of empowering students through financial education, Economic Literacy Colorado is merging with Junior Achievement - Rocky Mountain, Inc.! This exciting partnership will allow us to extend our impact even further, combining our strengths to continue delivering high-quality programs to teachers and students across Colorado.

Starting September 1, 2024, our team will join JA-Rocky Mountain, where we’ll continue to offer our educator programs and build on the success of our student programs.

We’re thrilled about this new chapter and the possibilities it brings. Thank you for your ongoing support! 🙌

Read more here: https://econlitco.org/new-blog-1/2024/8/20/junior-achievement-rocky-mountains-and-economic-literacy-colorado-merger-announcement

We’re participating in the Target Circle program! You can vote for us and help direct Target’s giving to benefit our nonprofit. For full program details and restrictions visit Target Circle: https://www.target.com/l/target-circle/-/N-pzno9

Let’s do this in Colorado next!

California high schoolers will soon need to take financial literacy class to graduate The semester-long course would need to be offered by the 2027-28 school year and a requirement to graduate starting with the 2030-31 class.

We are offering a Memorial Day 20% off discount code (MEMORIAL2024) for our upcoming MoneyWi$er workshop on June 13. This online workshop is designed to help K-12 teachers acquire the knowledge and skills needed for classroom teaching and personal life. Attendees are able to receive 7.5 hours in continuing education credits.

Learn more here: https://econlitco.org/moneywiser

The Stock Market Experience Spring Challenge celebrations continue! We visited Newton Middle School and Campus Middle School to honor the achievements of 1st and 2nd place state competition winners, as well as the 1st place Denver metro regional winner. The students shared their strategies for investing, including lots of research, diligently keeping an eye on their investments, and managing their reactions to risk – all great lessons learned in an engaging way!

Cherry Creek Public Schools
Littleton Public Schools

EconLitCo visited 5 schools across Colorado to celebrate the winners of the Stock Market Experience Spring Challenge. Students told us they learned life lessons about teamwork, risk tolerance, and the importance of paying attention to details through the simulation. We visited Black Rock Elementary, Acres Green Elementary, Severance Middle School, Mountain Vista High School, and Holy Family High School. Thank you to Jack McCool, FirstBank, for delivering donuts and award certificates to the students in Northern Colorado. Thank you to all our SME teachers for your hard work and investing in Colorado students!

Thank you to all who attended our inaugural Invest in Girls luncheon today! We had a great time with our speaker, Yanely Espinal. Thank you so much to all of our sponsors: Fidelity Investments, Suite Track, Air Academy Credit Union, B:Side Capital + B:Side Fund, Independent Community Bankers of Colorado and Innovest Portfolio Solutions for supporting this event.

Invest in Girls is a program of Council for Economic Education

Volunteers like this really make an impact on our students in the Stock Market Experience!

April is Month! I have just completed another fantastic year volunteering with Economic Literacy Colorado and the "Stock Market Experience". In this short blog post, I explain why the future is so bright. Thanks, Mr. Irving and Golden Hogh School!

https://localadvantagemortgage.com/blog/financial-literacy-month.php