WEBINAR: Connecting Children’s Savings, Financial Access, and Financial Education to the Federal GEAR UP Program

Join a webinar co-hosted by the New America Foundation and CFED in partnership with the U.S. Department of Education and the National Council for Community and Education Partnerships, to learn about ways to incorporate financial education, financial access, savings accounts, and other savings activities into FY ’11 GEAR UP applications, as well as forge partnerships that link the asset-building field with those who are creating efforts to increase educational attainment for low-income students.  GEAR UP is a $300 million grant program designed to increase the number of low-income students who are prepared to enter and succeed in postsecondary education, and this year, GEAR UP applicants are being encouraged to include such strategies in their proposals.

• Webinar panelists will highlight research, policies, and practices related to asset building and educational attainment. Topics will include:
• What is the impact of savings and financial literacy efforts on educational attainment?
• What asset-building policies could most facilitate the creation and expansion of college savings, financial access, and financial education programs?
• How can financial education, financial access, and savings programs be integrated into schools and communities?
• What kinds of GEAR UP partnerships could be created between state, local, nonprofit and financial institutions, and how could those partnerships be facilitated?
• What other informational and programmatic resources are available to GEAR UP applicants?

To RSVP for the webinar, please go to https://www302.livemeeting.com/lrs/8002458282/Registration.aspx?PageName=hxszl7zwdsmt4kj3.

Participants

Event Presenters
Phil Martin
Assistant for Financial Education and Student Aid
U.S. Department of Education

Mark Huelsman
Policy Analyst, College Savings Initiative and Asset Building Program
New America Foundation

Leigh Tivol
Director, Savings and Financial Security
CFED