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Charles Schwab Foundation

The Charles Schwab Foundation and Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) have collaboratively developed Money Matters: Make It Count. This financial literacy program was designed specifically to help teens (ages 13-18) expand their knowledge of money management and learn the skills that lead to financial independence and well-being.

The Money Matters: Make It Count program consists of five components: Teen Personal Finance Guide, Program Facilitator’s Guide, Money Matters Web site, Schwab Employee Volunteer Program and Money Matters Awards. The volunteer component is particularly useful, because Schwab employees can pass financial expertise to Club teens through their volunteer involvement.

The Money Matters program was piloted in 20 Boys & Girls Club locations in late 2003 and was distributed to all 2,400 teen Clubs in 2004. Teens from the pilot reported that the program made them think differently about budgeting, saving and investing.

In less than three years, nearly 70,000 Boys & Girls Club teens have completed Money Matters, and 884 Club locations across the U.S. have adopted the program.

Since 2004, Charles Schwab Foundation has presented a total of $148,000 in college scholarship grants to 74 teens, ages 16-18, who completed the program and demonstrated their newly-acquired financial literacy skills. Additional money management and financial literacy resources are available for teens, adults and families through Schwab MoneyWise .

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