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Third Quarter 2022
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Collection: Financial Literacy Updates
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)'s Financial Literacy Update is a quarterly e-newsletter that reports upcoming events, new initiatives, and related resources of the OCC and other government agencies and organizations. The Financial Literacy Update provides brief descriptions for upcoming events in chronological order. New initiatives and resources are listed in alphabetical order. Visit www.occ.gov/flu for more information. We welcome your feedback.
American Bankers Association
Association for Financial Counseling & Planning Education
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Consumer Federation of America
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Federal Communications Commission
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Foundation for Financial Planning
George Washington University Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center
Internal Revenue Service
National Community Reinvestment Coalition
National Credit Union Administration
National Disability Institute
National Foundation for Credit Counseling
National Housing Conference
NeighborWorks America
OCC’s HelpWithMyBank
Operation HOPE
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
U.S. Department of Defense
U.S. Department of Education
U.S. General Services Administration
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
U.S. Small Business Administration
Women’s Institute for a Secure Retirement
Courses for Personal Finance Educators July–September (Online) Next Gen Personal Finance invites personal finance and financial algebra classroom teachers to join one or more free 10-hour certification courses in such topics as banking and budgeting, investing, and cryptocurrency.
Financial Aid 101 Webinar August 18, 2022 (Online) The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau joins the U.S. Department of Education to share resources to help students and educators create a plan to pay for college. To register, email CFPB_FinEx@cfpb.gov.
Annual Financial Literacy Month Awards September 1, 2022 (In person) The Jump$tart Coalition will host its annual financial literacy awards ceremony on in Washington, D.C. An awards luncheon will honor various recipients who have made significant contributions to financial literacy.
National Educator Conference November 4–6, 2022 (In person and Online) Jump$tart invites teachers, sponsors, speakers, exhibitors, and other supporters of financial education to the 13th annual Jump$tart National Educator Conference in Atlanta. The conference provides an opportunity to interact with educators and network with financial literacy stakeholders.
2022 Hope Global Forum December 12–13, 2022 (In person) Operation Hope holds its annual forum in Atlanta. It will feature a mix of thought leaders from across sectors who will share their insights and stories.
Bank On The Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund’s funding opportunities support Bank On’s banking access efforts, including startup, capacity, integration, and innovation grants. For most of these opportunities, grant applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
Community Reinvestment Act Regulation The federal bank regulatory agencies invite public comment on their joint proposal to strengthen and modernize regulations implementing the Community Reinvestment Act to better achieve the purposes of the law. Comments on the proposal will be accepted on or before August 5, 2022.
2023–24 Dissertation Completion Fellowship Program The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Investor Education Foundation sponsors this program, which seeks to expand the pipeline of researchers from racial and ethnic backgrounds. Applicants must have completed their doctoral coursework and be in the final year of writing their dissertation. The application for 2023-2024 will be available in the fall of 2022.
Financial Empowerment Center Funding The Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund Financial Empowerment Center offers a new opportunity for local governments to learn about bringing professional, one-on-one financial counseling to their communities. Technical assistance, participation in a robust learning community, and potential match funding are offered every quarter.
#GetBanked Campaign Expanded in Los Angeles, Dallas, and Detroit The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation expands its #GetBanked public awareness campaign into the Los Angeles, Dallas, and Detroit metropolitan areas. In a series of English- and Spanish-language digital, audio, and video advertisements, the campaign encourages unbanked consumers to consider opening checking accounts.
InvestWrite Competition The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association Foundation sponsors an essay competition for students in three grade divisions (elementary, middle, and high school). Student essayists analyze, think critically, and solve problems about a long-term saving and investing scenario. Teachers and volunteers representing the financial industry judge the essays.
LifeSmarts The National Consumers League hosts this online competition open to all students in grades 6–12. For 28 years, LifeSmarts has been empowering teens to become smart, savvy consumers. Each month, LifeSmarts focuses on a different category important to teen consumers: personal finance, health and safety, consumer rights and responsibilities, technology, and the environment. Students compete online and in person throughout the year to win scholarships and prizes. Experts in LifeSmarts subject areas are needed to serve as judges and officials at the state and national competitions.
Moneywise America In partnership with nonprofit organizations and schools, the Charles Schwab Foundation offers lessons in budgeting and savings for teens.
Next Gen Personal Finance Arcade Next Gen Personal Finance offers 11 free online games to engage students in financial decisions related to such personal finance topics as investing in the market, purchasing insurance, and working in the gig economy.
Next Gen Personal Finance Nearpod License Grants Personal finance teachers can apply for a Premium Plus Nearpod license, including four full Next Gen Personal Finance courses with dozens of lessons preloaded. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
OCC Financial Health Discussion Series The OCC offers a discussion series to explore issues related to the financial well-being of consumers. The Financial Health: Vital Signs series features discussions with Acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael J. Hsu and academic, community, and industry leaders. The quarterly discussion series will be livestreamed and is open to the public. The first event was held April 28, 2022, and featured discussions on minority ownership of cryptocurrency.
Personal Finance Awareness The American Bankers Association Foundation’s Get Smart About Credit program offers resources that bankers can use to help increase teens’ and young adults’ personal finance knowledge.
Pro Bono Planner Match The Foundation for Financial Planning sponsors the planner match, which connects financial planners who want to help underserved people and nonprofit organizations that offer pro bono services. Nonprofit organizations can register and post volunteer opportunities on the foundation’s pro bono planner match website.
Project REACh The OCC’s Project REACh (Roundtable for Economic Access and Change) brings together leaders from the banking industry, national civil rights organizations, business, and technology to promote financial inclusion through greater access to credit and capital. The initiative seeks to reduce specific barriers that prevent full, equal, and fair participation in the nation’s economy.
Stop Home Scams.org The NeighborWorks America campaign provides consumers struggling financially because of the COVID-19 pandemic with information about housing scams, where to report them, eviction prevention tips, and how to connect with housing counselors.
Advancing Equity Through Worker Financial Health: A Framework for Employers This Financial Health Network research report identifies strategies that employers can use to embed an equity lens into benefits programs. Human Resources leaders can use these early learnings to design and deliver programs and benefits that reduce financial health gaps.
America Saves America Saves, a Consumer Federation of America research-based campaign, motivates and supports low- to moderate-income households to save, reduce debt, and build wealth.
Breaking Down Barriers to Investing for Women of Color This overview provides preliminary findings from the Commonwealth organization’s research into how investing platforms can reduce barriers to participating in capital markets by women of color.
Building Blocks of Youth Financial Capability The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau offers resources, designed for use in a single class period, to teach youth financial literacy skills. The resources are for all grade levels and can be used in a variety of subject areas.
Commodity Futures Trading Advisories and Articles The Commodity Futures Trading Commission provides articles and customer advisories to the public on commodity futures market basics and the steps to avoid fraud and other abuses while trading. The commission’s website provides a search tool.
Considering a Financial Caregiver? Know Your Options This Consumer Financial Protection Bureau publication helps people understand their options when considering informal and formal financial caregivers.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has numerous resources covering a range of financial topics that may be downloaded or ordered in bulk.
Consumer.gov This Federal Trade Commission website provides resources about credit, debt, identity theft, and avoiding scams, as well as budgeting, opening a bank account, shopping for prepaid cards, and managing money in general. The website is available in Spanish at www.consumidor.gov.
Consumer News Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s Consumer News is a monthly newsletter for consumers, providing practical guidance on how to become a smarter, safer user of financial services, including helpful hints, quick tips, and common-sense strategies to protect and stretch your hard-earned dollars.
Cryptocurrency and Scams The Federal Trade Commission provides information on how to spot and avoid cryptocurrency scams and detect accounts that may be compromised.
Data Spotlight: Older Homeowners Struggling to Make Mortgage Payments During the Pandemic This Consumer Financial Protection Bureau publication describes the characteristics and circumstances of older adults who are struggling to make their mortgage payments.
Deposit Insurance Education Materials The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has made significant enhancements to its deposit insurance education materials. The materials provide the public with quick access to basic information while offering the traditional in-depth and comprehensive deposit insurance information.
Dwindling Savings, Increased Spending in Fourth Quarter 2021 This Financial Health Network report reviews how consumers spent more money on recreation and eating out during the 2021 holiday season, but many remain vulnerable as government relief programs expire and inflation continues. The report examines factors that may shape financial health in the early months of 2022.
Econ Lowdown The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis’s Econ Lowdown is a free economic education portal for teachers and students. The portal provides classroom management tools and online modules, articles, videos, and podcasts for teaching economics and personal finance.
EDGAR Database The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recently updated this database of online corporate filings to help site users quickly find companies’ filings.
Employer FinHealth Toolkit The Financial Health Network created this guide to help human resources professionals assess and improve the financial health of their employees.
Financial Aid Toolkit The U.S. Department of Education provides tools and resources to help parents and students learn about financial aid.
Financial Caregiving Hub The Women’s Institute for a Secure Retirement (WISER) has developed the Financial Caregiving Hub to serve as a one-stop source for financial caregivers and their care recipients. This online tool offers a suite of trusted, vetted information, resources, and tools for caregivers of spouses, parents, other family members, and children.
Financial Health and Criminal Justice: Stories of Justice-Involving Individuals and Families This Financial Health Network report discusses how one’s financial health affects the ability to navigate the U.S. criminal justice system.
Financial Literacy Resource Directory The resource directory provides information on financial literacy resources, issues, and events of importance to bankers, organizations, and consumers of all ages. The resource directory includes descriptions of, and contact information for, government programs on financial literacy education and capability. It also includes organizations whose missions are to support financial literacy through campaigns, fact sheets, newsletters, conference materials, publications, and websites.
How Money Smart Are You? The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation provides online financial education games and related resources to help build practical knowledge and financial skills.
IdentityTheft.gov This Federal Trade Commission website helps people report and recover from identity theft. The website is available in Spanish at www.robodeidentidad.gov.
Investor.gov Investor.gov is the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s resource to help investors make informed decisions and avoid fraud. The website includes information on investing and investment products, a glossary of investment terms, alerts and bulletins on frauds and current investment topics, publications, and free financial tools and calculators. Investor.gov also offers a free and simple tool to check the background of an investment professional.
Map Your Money Journey The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Map Your Money Journey survey provides a short, online self-assessment designed for ages 8–18 by measuring their development of three interconnected building blocks of financial capability.
Medical Bills and Collections The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau offers information about consumer rights and protections to stop unfair medical debt collection and coercive credit reporting practices.
Money as You Grow This Consumer Financial Protection Bureau program provides tips and activities to help grow children’s money skills, habits, and attitudes.
Money Monsters These Consumer Financial Protection Bureau stories introduce children to ideas, habits, and activities they will need as they grow to manage money.
Money Mule Scams This American Bankers Association and Federal Trade Commission presentation explains to consumers how to avoid money mule scams.
MoneySKILL The American Financial Services Association Education Foundation offers MoneySKILL as a free, online personal finance curriculum available in English and Spanish. This curriculum includes a curated collection from different organizations of nearly 400 financial education activities. Instructors can create an account and log in to access resources for teachers.
MyCreditUnion.gov The National Credit Union Administration’s official consumer protection website, MyCreditUnion.gov, offers educational information, resources, and articles designed to help people make smarter financial decisions and better choices with their money.
Money Smart for Older Adults The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s Money Smart for Older Adults Program raises awareness on how to prevent elder financial exploitation and encourages planning and informed financial decision-making.
MyMoney.gov This U.S. Department of the Treasury website provides financial education information and resources from across the federal government. The website highlights MyMoney Five (which provides links to resources and tools related to five principles for managing money), a research clearinghouse, games for youth focused on money, and a section on financial choices for major life events.
Next Gen Personal Finance's Questions of the Day Next Gen Personal Finance writes four “Questions of the Day” each week during the school year to spark interest and create discussion in finance-themed classes, such as personal finance, business, or economics.
Older Americans Benchmarking Survey Report This American Bankers Association report highlights data on how banks engage with older consumers and train staff to combat elder financial exploitation.
Planning for Diminished Capacity and Illness This Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Securities and Exchange Commission consumer advisory focuses on planning for the future. The advisory provides information on planning, getting documents in order, and avoiding financial exploitation.
Pro Bono Financial Planning Volunteer Training The Foundation for Financial Planning offers updated training and a library of webinars to support nonprofit leaders and pro bono financial planners seeking to provide financial guidance to low- and moderate-income people.
Pulse Points Summer 2021: Impact of Stimulus Payments and Reopening the Economy This Financial Health Network report discusses how Americans used federal stimulus money from April to June 2021 and how overall incomes were affected as the pandemic continued.
ReportFraud.ftc.gov The Federal Trade Commission’s website is designed to make it easier for people to report fraud, scams, and bad business practices.
Spanish-Language Rental Assistance Finder The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau resource helps Spanish speakers find a local rental assistance program.
Suspicious Activity Reports Data Spotlight This Data Spotlight from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau analyzes recent trends in Suspicious Activity Reports of suspected financial crimes involving elder financial exploitation.
Unpaid and Unprotected: How Lack of Paid Leave for Medical and Caregiving Purposes Impacts Financial Health This Financial Health Network report explains the benefits of paid medical leave policies.
Veterans Benefits Banking Program The Veterans Benefits Banking Program (VBBP), a partnership between Association Member Benefits Advisors and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, has launched VBBP 2.0, which includes a new website and new program features that offer one free session of financial or credit counseling and a new financial education platform.
