Explore the key differences between wants and needs and discuss opportunity costs and trade-offs. Learn to write personal checks and record transactions in a check register. Key differences and appropriate uses of debit cards, credit cards, and cash are discussed.
To create the optimal experience, each session is limited to 100 participants.
Explore what it takes to be an entrepreneur by creating your own business or product concept. Learn basic banking and terms associated with savings and checking accounts. A metaphoric visioning activity is incorporated to help with future financial aspirations.
To create the optimal experience, each session is limited to 100 participants.
Create and explore your feelings and ideas on basic financial decisions and philanthropy. Self-reflect to determine how you can share your skills and talents to make a positive impact in your community.
To create the optimal experience, each session is limited to 100 participants.
This online webinar is also available for private coordination for schools, groups, businesses and community organizations. Please contact [email protected] to learn more.
Identify what it takes to become financially independent by setting S.M.A.R.T.E.R. goals, creating a written financial plan, and distinguishing between needs and wants. Explore how investing in your own personal human capital can increase the likelihood of career success. Working in teams, participants will develop a creative presentation synthesizing their knowledge of the targeted financial and goal-setting concepts and skills.
To create the optimal experience, each session is limited to 100 participants.
It can be challenging to secure your first job. Realize how to capture your talent and translate it into workplace skills to create a thoughtful résumé and find ways to create opportunities for work readiness skills. Focusing now on early employment will help improve long-term career outcomes and a sustainable financial future. Gain tips on résumé building, and useful templates as well as structuring a future savings plan.
Does living simply create more space and time for achieving important goals? Learn ways to enjoy savings for purpose-driven goals by making room in your budget. Join the SEFCU Institute for Financial Well-Being in exploring a mindset of owning, buying, renting, low-cost experiences, and how to develop fun habits to prioritize easy living, financially green.
Have you thought about your creative talents and a need to find a primary source of income or generate more income? Learn about ways to capture your talent, quantify your hourly value, costs to consider, and other pivotal questions. Explore how to create clarity in the scope of work that you venture to do, building a portfolio of references, and financial variables to consider. It’s a strategy, but is it for you? Join the conversation!
Young adults participate in an energetic pricing game experience and are introduced to expenses associated with being independent and establishing a household. Learners will make comparisons and financial decisions in practical scenarios and identify trade-offs (cost savings) and opportunity costs. Themes of using credit responsibly, following a monthly budget, and cost awareness are explored to learn how to prioritize needs and wants and pursue personal financial capability.
Participate in a trivia-style game, examining concepts of budgeting, saving, sharing, borrowing, and interest and discover related financial vocabulary. Customized, focused discussion on topics will take place based on game outcome.
This online webinar is also available for private coordination for schools, groups, businesses and community organizations. Please contact [email protected] to learn more.
Learners create a dynamic adventure-based storyline by guiding our friend Finn through a series of spending, saving, sharing, and earning experiences. Watch the story unfold as youth practice problem-solving and critical thinking to make financial decisions while prioritizing needs and wants. Relevant math illustrations are used to visually explain the result of each scenario in the story, as decisions are made in real time by participants.
