🚀 JA of Greater South Carolina is thrilled to announce the launch 🚀 of JA Finance Park Mobile®! This program is Junior Achievement’s capstone curriculum for personal financial planning and career exploration. Combining in-class learning with a visit to an immersive pop-up mobile simulation, JA Finance Park® helps students build a foundation on which they can make intelligent financial decisions that last a lifetime. From education and employment, to saving, investing, and budgeting, these lessons empower teens to take control of their financial futures and unlock their boundless potential. 💸 📣 Sound off in the comments- which of these lessons do you wish you could share with your teenage self? To learn more about volunteer opportunities, book a visit for your school, or become a sponsor, visit https://lnkd.in/esGsd3SA
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One of the privileges I have each day is reviewing and approving grants to support striving tech students - typically low-income undergrads in computing fields from underrepresented communities. You might think it would be a slow time of the year for Last Mile Education Fund, but we're processing dozens of grants per week. You would be surprised how difficult it can be for many students to access opportunities they have earned such as an internship or research experience because of financial constraints. This week alone we invested in: -A student trying to juggle rent obligations for her college apartment until the lease ends in July, as well as housing at her internship site across the country - plus afford a return trip to move out and place her belongings in storage midway through the summer. -An intern at a major insurance company struggling to pay for rent, food or transportation during an internship that started weeks ago - but doesn't pay the students the relocation stipend until their first paycheck - 30 days after starting. -Funded several students to attend the ColorStack conference in August in San Jose. Networking and recruiting opportunities like these are critical to preparing to launch into the tech workforce, but often inaccessible due to upfront expenses as well as opportunity cost. These are just a few examples of the 'hidden costs' along the journey to a tech degree and career that can trip up financially vulnerable students. For affluent students, these costs are typically covered by their families. For students from poverty, they can be insurmountable. It is incredible how impactful a small investment of just a few thousand dollars can make for these talented students. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gVB_mhpX
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💖 The February 2024 Newsletter is ready to view 💖 This month, we highlight the following: 😍 College Experience Tied to Success: Researchers surveyed over 30,000 college graduates about their job and life satisfaction and determined that it isn’t where you go to college, but rather what you do when attending college. This article gives insight into making the most out of your college experience. 😍 Focus on Majors - Majors, Minors, and Concentrations: Students entering college don’t need to limit their studies to one subject. Many colleges offer the option of double majoring, majoring in a certain concentration, or combining a major with a minor. Understanding your choices allows you to broaden your area of expertise and interests. 😍 Financial Matters - Comparing College Financial Aid Offers: Before your teen accepts an admissions offer to their dream school, make sure to understand the total cost of college. Reading the three steps will clarify how to decipher the actual cost of attendance, and whether to accept loan offers and scholarship terms. 😍 Planning for Summer in Winter: While downtime is important to re-energize, summer is also a great time to explore new interests by taking a class, trying a residential summer program housed on a college campus, getting a job, or volunteering in your community. Look for an experience that is exciting to you. chrome-https://lnkd.in/exwbRtKA
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Every Summer parents are looking for fun and meaningful things to engage their kids in, till school re-opens. This summer, engaging the youth in financial literacy feels very enticing. I have observed that teaching financial literacy early on is crucial for developing good financial habits and a healthy relationship with money. The key principles of financial literacy include; earning, saving, investing, protecting, spending, and borrowing. That provide a solid foundation for kids to understand how to manage their finances effectively. By learning these principles, kids can develop essential skills such as: 1. Budgeting and prioritizing expenses 2. Setting financial goals and working towards them 3. Making smart financial decisions 4. Avoiding debt and building credit 5. Building wealth and securing their financial future Introducing these concepts in an age-appropriate manner can set kids up for long-term financial success and stability. Starting early can make a significant difference! This summer l have enrolled my teen in the Pete & Pete Investment Program, please review the e-flyer below if interested and book the course for your youth. Or sponsor a youth….. Give your kids a good start in life!! Won’t you?
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The next deadline for our Students of Color Scholarship will be here soon! Make sure students get entered! Award: $1,500 $500 to charity of choice Question: What's your dream career to pursue after high school? Deadline: March 31 #scholarships #scholarshipsearch #money #scholarshipopportunities #freemoney #financialaid #scholarship
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💰Students missed the September deadline? Don't worry! We have deadlines for the Students of Color Scholarship all year round! Award: $1,500 $500 to a charity of your choice Question: What's your dream career to pursue after high school? #scholarships #studentsofcolor #financialaid #money #freemoney
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“I want to invest in my grandkids in more meaningful ways. Something that isn’t a 529, cash, or trinkets that will sit on a shelf.” As far as client soundbites go, this is one of our favorites. How can you make a deeper impact on your grandkids, and how can your financial resources help? If that statement resonates with you, here are a few creative ideas for how you can invest in your grandkids lives: 💡 Help pay for lessons, coaching, or training to support hobbies like art, music, or sports 💡 Take a 1-on-1 trip to a place that interests them (museum, outdoor activity, events, etc) 💡 Cover tutoring support 💡 Host the grandchildren for a weekend (and let your adult children have time away) 💡 Make Roth contributions for each grandchild 💡 Match their savings, encouraging them to adopt good financial habits 💡 Help enable higher quality PreK-12 schooling options 💡 Cover college prep or SAT/ACT prep classes 💡 Help pay for college textbooks 💡 Contribute towards experiences like retreats, volunteer work, or summer camps The list goes on, but at the core, this is the question: How can you enable experiences and support that help shape the person they’re becoming? Your impact is significant, both in your own relationship as well as the doors you can help open.
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“I want to invest in my grandkids in more meaningful ways. Something that isn’t a 529, cash, or trinkets that will sit on a shelf.” As far as client soundbites go, this is one of our favorites. How can you make a deeper impact on your grandkids, and how can your financial resources help? If that statement resonates with you, here are a few creative ideas for how you can invest in your grandkids lives: 💡 Help pay for lessons, coaching, or training to support hobbies like art, music, or sports 💡 Take a 1-on-1 trip to a place that interests them (museum, outdoor activity, events, etc) 💡 Cover tutoring support 💡 Host the grandchildren for a weekend (and let your adult children have time away) 💡 Make Roth contributions for each grandchild 💡 Match their savings, encouraging them to adopt good financial habits 💡 Help enable higher quality PreK-12 schooling options 💡 Cover college prep or SAT/ACT prep classes 💡 Help pay for college textbooks 💡 Contribute towards experiences like retreats, volunteer work, or summer camps The list goes on, but at the core, this is the question: How can you enable experiences and support that help shape the person they’re becoming? Your impact is significant, both in your own relationship as well as the doors you can help open.
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We also have a new Students of Color Scholarship deadline! Get students entered today! Award: $1,500 $500 to charity of choice Question: What's your dream career to pursue after high school? Deadline: March 31 #scholarships #scholarshipsearch #money #scholarshipopportunities #freemoney #financialaid #studentsofcolor #minoritystudents
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Financial Literacy has never been more important than before, and the unfortunate reality is that many public school curriculums do not currently provide the roadmap for students to be financially responsible by the time they turn 18. I’m looking forward to partnering with Motivate Our Minds beginning later this month by offering weekly financial literacy to students ranging K-5. Planting the seeds of financial success early in development will set these kids up for success! https://lnkd.in/eZCTW-nf
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MV Ventures* supports planetary evolution through a higher consciousness for all humanity. *MV Venture is not like some greedy VC vultures reading this (You know who you are). We are stronger, better, faster than you. 8)
Part 3 of 3: We can do better America. I challenge you all to look at how much you pay for streaming services each month and reconcile those rates to the living realities of full-time entertainers and actors who do so much for the brands and studios that we love watching. From livable income stipends provided by local and federal governments to globalized competition that each day is accelerating with a greater force than ever before thanks to technology and telecommunication, there is a breathable moment that we all can take to stop, pause, breathe, and deeply consider the ramifications of every decision that we make in the lives that we live. A profile picture on a website like LinkedIn seems like a small thing, doesn’t it? But is it really? What we associate ourselves with contributes to our individual brands. If you are reading this, you probably have considered what your “brand” is. If we make monthly payments to exploitative companies, we are allowing ourselves to promote exploitation. This, of course, is not the intention of the many millions of well-meaning humans paying for Disney around the world. But from what we buy at the store to what we pay to watch on television, we are often unconsciously manipulated into supporting inhumane practices and systems. I was once asked to fly to Melbourne to sign students at one of the most influential private prep schools in Australia up for a class called “Mental Manipulation.” I prepared materials to educate the students and their parents on what we would learn in the class if they enrolled. It was a successful night and I spoke to hundreds of young people and their families about global economic inequality and man-made cultural and environmental factors that worked against the best interests of the human race. When I got back home to Los Angeles I received a call from the Principal of that prep school who had flown me out on the 16 hour flight (32 hours both ways). He told me that the class was being cancelled because only three students signed up for it and he couldn’t justify its existence to parents or board members with only three students. This set of three posts is for all three of students, wherever they are today, who signed up for that class. I believe there are many more students who would sign up today. But it goes to show that we can do better not only in the United States, but across the whole world. If you follow me or are connected on LinkedIn and read this, consider yourselves students of the Megaverse School. Whether it’s my work in entrepreneurship and venture capital, entertainment, education or global internet development, I hope to turn this universe (like a university) we live and study in up a notch from what it is presently. What more can I say that hasn’t already been said about Disney, movie studios and mental manipulation? Well, maybe a few things. But I’ll have to charge you a monthly subscription for those. 😇
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