K-6 Financial Literacy Challenge
K-6 Students have the opportunity to recieve a $50 youth savings account from American First when they complete eight activities and two reflection questions from the Financial Literacy Challenge.
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3 Experienced-Based Gift Ideas
Give the gift of education with my529. Marketing Director Bryn Ramjoue says my529, Utah's official educational savings plan, offers a unique way to gift a child's future. Instead of clothes that wear our and toys that break, my529 contributes to a child's college fund, so it grows and lasts a lifetime. Anyone can gift a my529 contribution - parents, grandparents or even friends. It's as easy as visiting my529.org to get started.
Personalized portals offer unique gifting experience
The gifting season is upon us and the <a href="https://my529.org/gifting-profiles/" target="_blank">my529 Gift Program</a> lets account owners send friends and family a unique link and gift code that makes it easy for them to contribute funds to a beneficiary’s account. The beneficiary’s gifting profile can even be customized with a photo and thoughtful message; there are endless ways to be creative with the gifting profile.
Utah Financial Education Hall of Fame
The Utah Jump$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
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.