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Book Your Summer

Book Your Summer

Register for the summer reading program at your local library. Then enter for a chance at one of six regional $2,000 my529 scholarships. One entry per reader, age 18 and under (born on or after May 1, 2007). Book Your Summer runs May 1, 2025, through July 31.

K-6 Financial Literacy Challenge

K-6 Financial Literacy Challenge

K-6 Students have the opportunity to recieve a $50 youth savings account from American First when they complete eight activities and two reflection questions from the Financial Literacy Challenge.
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Plant your college savings this spring

Plant your college savings this spring

The my529 College Savings Estimator is a free and easy tool for customizing your savings scenario to predict and compare costs among various higher education options.

3 Experienced-Based Gift Ideas

3 Experienced-Based Gift Ideas

Give the gift of education with my529. Marketing Director Bryn Ramjoue says my529, Utah's official educational savings plan, offers a unique way to gift a child's future. Instead of clothes that wear our and toys that break, my529 contributes to a child's college fund, so it grows and lasts a lifetime. Anyone can gift a my529 contribution - parents, grandparents or even friends. It's as easy as visiting my529.org to get started.

Personalized portals offer unique gifting experience

Personalized portals offer unique gifting experience

The gifting season is upon us and the <a href="https://my529.org/gifting-profiles/" target="_blank">my529 Gift Program</a> lets account owners send friends and family a unique link and gift code that makes it easy for them to contribute funds to a beneficiary’s account. The beneficiary’s gifting profile can even be customized with a photo and thoughtful message; there are endless ways to be creative with the gifting profile.

2024 Utah Women in the Money Conference

2024 Utah Women in the Money Conference

The Utah Women in the Money Conference empowers women to achieve financial security by providing access to crucial financial information, valuable resources, and new mentors and friends.

Utah Financial Education Hall of Fame

Utah Financial Education Hall of Fame

The Utah Jump$tart Coalition, Utah Treasurer Marlo M. Oaks, and the Utah State Board of Education (USBE) honored the first-ever Utah Financial Education Hall of Fame inductees at a banquet on June 10, 2024. The Hall of Fame formally recognized Utah’s outstanding personal finance teachers, as well as the administrators who support them in their important work.

Utah Recieves an A Grade on State Efforts to Improve Financial Literacy

Utah Recieves an A Grade on State Efforts to Improve Financial Literacy

Using national data, Center for Financial Literacy graded all states on their efforts to produce financially literate high school graduates. This report card gave Utah an A grade in efforts to provide high schools with personal finance education.