Charles Schwab Foundation Announces Second
Annual "Innovation Awards" for Creative
Delivery of Financial Education at Five Select Boys
& Girls Clubs
Imaginative Tactics Engage Teens in the Money Matters: Make It CountSM Program
September 21, 2010 09:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time
SAN FRANCISCO--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--As part of its mission to foster financial literacy as the
underpinning of financial well-being, Charles Schwab Foundation has announced the 2010 winners of the Innovation
Awards. The annual awards recognize unique and enterprising techniques for delivering the Money Matters:Make It
Count curriculum, a Charles Schwab Foundation-funded financial education program taught in Boys & Girls Clubs
around the country. One Boys & Girls Club was selected from each of the country’s five geographic regions for
pioneering techniques that make learning about money management compelling and meaningful to today’s youth. The
winners, which each receive a $3,000 grant, are:
l Boys & Girls Club of Palm Beach County (Florida),
l Fort Hood Child & Youth Services (Texas),
l Waterville Area Boys & Girls Clubs (Maine),
l Boys & Girls Club of Oshkosh (Wisconsin), and
l Boys & Girls Clubs of Fresno County (California).
While each winning club employs different strategies and tactics to teach critical personal finance skills, a common
theme for all involves reaching outside the framework of the basic Money Matters curriculum to encourage hands-
on, experiential learning. The different approaches include simulation of real-life financial decision-making,
entrepreneurism and engagement of local business leaders.
For example, at Fort Hood Child & Youth Services in Texas, Money Matters is a part of the Club’s real-world
simulation programming conducted in partnership with Prairie View University. During a two-hour workshop, the
Club sets up activity stations inside its gym and exposes participants to different real-life choices at each station.
Provided with a simulated income, each par