Please join us for a lunch briefing
Girl Scouts of USA - Improving Girls’ Financial Literacy
When: April 29, 2014 at 12:30 P.M.
Where: 485 Russell Senate Office Building
Honorary Congressional Host Committee:
Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)
Senator Al Franken (D-MN) Rep. André Carson (D-IN)
Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-MD) Rep. Donna Edwards (D-MD)
Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX)
Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) Rep. Rubén Hinojosa (D-TX)
Senator Jim Risch (R-ID) Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI)
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL)
Rep. Steve Stivers (R-OH)
A nationwide survey conducted by the Girl Scout Research Institute reveals girls are confident and optimistic about their financial futures, but their current knowledge is limited. Ninety percent of girls say it is important to learn how to manage money; and yet only 12% of girls today currently feel very confident making financial decisions.
The world’s current economic challenges have made one thing clear: Financial literacy skills matter now more than ever. Girls especially need to learn the basics of money management. A higher percentage of girls are attending college and must find ways to underwrite their college education. Additionally, most women live longer and earn less than men, single women are more likely to become first-time homeowners than single men, and more women are responsible for their own financial self-sufficiency at some point in their lives. After-school and community-based programs can complement formal education, helping girls learn money management in real-world, practical settings.
In celebration of April as Financial Literacy Month, Girl Scouts of the USA and Girls Inc. is pleased to host a Capitol Hill briefing to raise awareness of the value and role of after-school and community-based programs as a complement to formal education. Girl members from both organizations from across the country will be in the audience.
Presenters will include representatives from:
- Girl Scouts of the Nation’s Capital, to speak to their financial fitness challenge that reached 25,000 girls last year in the Washington, D.C. metro area; one-third of the girls are from low and moderate income families;
- EverFi, to speak to their new-media learning platform that uses the latest technology – video, animations, 3-D gaming, avatars, and social networking – to bring complex financial concepts to life for students; and
- Girls Inc. who has partnered with ING to help girls’ ages 12-18 build and manage diversified, real-time portfolios as part of an integrated investment- and economic-literacy curriculum.
Please RSVP to Advocacy@girlscouts.org or 202-659-3780.