By: Laura Walton AFC® These last few days of 2016 are a time of both reflection on the year just ending and anticipation of the year to come. The following is meant to prompt some fun as well as thoughtful answers as we look back and ahead. If you had to give 2016 a theme,…
By: Laura Walton AFC® Last month I attended Social Venture Partners Fast Pitch event at which seven select non-profits competed to inspire the audience through their stories, told in just three minutes, their “fast pitches.” The speakers for each non-profit did just that – they inspired – and so did the keynote speaker, a former…
By: Laura Walton AFC® That was my reaction when I saw the article titled “Financial Illiteracy and the Ineffectiveness of Financial Education Programs.” The TCI Foundation runs a financial education program, the 3rd Decade. Are we irrelevant? No, thank goodness, but… the eye-opening take-away from this was that financial education only affected 0.1% of later financial…
By: Laura Walton AFC® I spent yesterday morning talking about investing with a high school Personal Finance class. This is a classroom that the TCI Foundation has been visiting for the past three years – this time was different. Many teachers use The Stock Market Game and their teacher had received a grant to bring…