Potential State Impact

Establishing a financial literacy network could have a statewide effect, serving to:

• Increase statewide financial and human resources focused on personal finance education.
• Foster communication and collaboration among educators, agencies, community organizations and businesses around the financial literacy issue.
• Raise the financial competence and confidence of North Carolina adults, youth, and financial literacy educators.
• Strengthen our state economy and improve quality of life for financially literate citizens.
• Reduce the number of citizens who are “financially at risk” because of inadequate financial management skills by equipping them with the knowledge to improve their financial status, meet their daily obligations and maximize their long term financial security.
• Improve financial literacy among youth to prevent their making poor decisions that take years to overcome.

A North Carolina Cooperative Extension initiative, led by The Cooperative Extension Program at North Carolina A&T State University, in collaboration with businesses, community groups, agencies, schools, universities and non-profits across North Carolina.