Be a Money Smart Week^® Library

On Monday, June 25, come learn how your library can participate in Money Smart Week^® 2019. During the program, 2:30 – 3:30 p.m., in Morial Convention Center room 285, the exact week in early April will be announced.

Since 2009, American Library Association has partnered with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago to sponsor Money Smart Week^®. This national initiative, which now includes additional partners such as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, provides financial education programming to help members of your community better manage their personal finances.

Libraries of all types can and do participate in Money Smart Week^®, providing programming for all ages and all stages of life on financial topics such as basic budgeting, managing student debt, teaching financial literacy to teens, retirement planning, home purchasing, saving money through couponing, and how to prevent identity theft. ALA and its partners make it easy for libraries to participate with tips and guides on successful programming done by peer libraries; free posters, bookmarks, and other promotional materials; and the opportunity to be part of national and local contests, such as Money Smart Kids Essay Contest, Geocache for Cash, Big Read, and others.

Learn more about Money Smart Week^® at http://www.ala.org/offices/money-smart-week and by following #MoneySmartWeek.

In addition, be among the first to learn more about Money Smart Week^® by subscribing to the official e-list at http://lists.ala.org/sympa/info/mswlibrary. Choose Subscribe from the left-hand column and follow instructions.