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Smart Money Week – Promote it!
By Donna DiMichele | March 16, 2016
5th Annual Financial Literacy Awareness Series, Money Smart Week®, launches across Rhode Island from April 23 – 30, 2016
The Rhode Island Library Association (RILA) will launch the 5th annual financial literacy awareness series, Money Smart Week®, across Rhode Island from April 23 – 30, 2016 with events scheduled in libraries and community spaces throughout the state. Money Smart Week (MSW) is a national initiative from the Chicago Federal Reserve and the American Library Association that promotes financial literacy awareness. Money Smart Week events are free and open to the public at businesses, financial institutions, schools, libraries, nonprofits and government agencies throughout the country on topics including kids and money, unemployment, managing student debt and retirement. To learn more about Money Smart Week® visit www.moneysmartweek.org
RILA is asking RI libraries and community partners to support MSW and spread the word to the public about events happening during Money Smart Week across RI. RILA’s Financial Literacy Roundtable hopes to see an increase in attendance this year (623 people attended 48 MSW events in 2015) and cannot achieve this goal without your continued support.
You can promote Money Smart Week by posting the official Money Smart Week logo and a link to the Money Smart Week events calendar on your home page and on social media (Facebook, Twitter, etc.). The Chicago Federal Reserve has created state specific logos for use in promoting Money Smart Week and maintains the events calendar on their website.
Sample press releases from the MSW Media Kit include:
- Money Smart Week is around the corner! Take advantage of our FREE workshops…there are many scheduled in RI! www.moneysmartweek.org/findevents
- It’s too bad money doesn’t come with instructions because we all need to know how to spend it, save it and borrow it wisely. Banks, businesses, schools, libraries and many others are joining together to help support financial education during Money Smart Week – April 23rd through the 30th. Numerous free education programs are available to the public on all facets of financial education. Learn to be Money Smart. For information and activity listings near you, visit www.moneysmartweek.org/findevents
For your convenience, the links embedded in the above press release are listed here:
- Money Smart Week 2016 Event Calendar http://www.moneysmartweek.org/findevents
- Money Smart Week 2016 Official RI logos http://www.moneysmartweekpartners.org/rhode_island_logo
- MSW Media Kit https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/msw/pages/41/attachments/original/1456249505/MediaKit_2016.pdf?1456249505
On Twitter #MoneySmartWeek
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact FLRT@rilibraries.org
Lori DeCesare & Chris Wallace Goldstein
Co chairs of RILA’s Financial Literacy Roundtable and Money Smart Week RI
Money Smart Week is an registered service mark of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
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