The National Credit Union Foundation made financial educationthe overwhelming focus of its grant making for next year,allocating more than $294,000 to 15 credit union financialeducation projects.
"At the Foundation strategic planning meeting a few months ago,we decided to make financial education a priority in 2011," saidBucky Sebastian, NCUF executive director. "Financial education haslong been a part of the Foundation's and REAL Solutions' mission.It's also vital to the success of credit unions and consumersnationwide."
The projects included a financial education program that focusedon participants in the Women, Infants and Children nutritionprogram run by the Mid-America Credit Union Association to aproject run by the Filene Research Institute that will help lowincome workers support their savings efforts through an approachbased on the popular "Weight Watchers" program.
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