FDIC Chairman’s Award for Innovation in Financial Literacy 2009 Resource Page


FDIC Awards Presentation On December 3, 2009, the Shriver Center received the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's Chairman's Award for Innovation in Financial Education for the Chicago Region. The primary purpose of the FDIC Chairman's Award is to recognize excellence and innovation in financial education and to highlight potentially replicable best practices.

Below are some resources on the work of the Shriver Center's Community Investment Unit.


Shriver Center's Community Investment Unit Brochure

Shriver Center's FDIC Awards Presentation PowerPoint

Financial Links for Low Income People Materials

Financial Education and Asset-Building Programs for Welfare Recipients: The Illinois Experience, 38 Clearinghouse Review 49 (May-June 2004)

Financial Links for Low Income People (FLLIP): An Evaluation of Implementation and Initial Training Activity

Student Run Banks Materials

A Guide to Establishing Bank Branches in High Schools

Using Student-Run Banks to Promote Financial Education and Community Economic and Workforce Development, 42 Clearinghouse Review 71 (May-June 2008)

Branching Out: The Story of Student Run Banks

Savings for Education, Entrepreneurship and Development (SEED) Program

Children's Development Accounts Promote Inclusive Prosperity, 41 Clearinghouse Review 473 (Nov.-Dec. 2008)

Children's Savings Accounts: A State Policy Sourcebook

Asset Coalition Toolkit for States

Asset Coalition Toolkit for States Website

Brochure on the Asset Coalition Toolkit for States

Webinars

Universal Voluntary Retirement Accounts: A Financially Secure Retirement

Asset Building and Disability

Integrating Asset Building Opportunities into Domestic Violence Advocacy

For more information, contact Karen Harris.