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2009

 

Albany Public Library, Albany, NY

The library will develop and market a weekly drop-in clinic that gives one-on-one reference assistance and referrals for tax preparation customers.
Grant amount: $55,055

Alliance Library System, East Peoria, IL

Alliance will deliver saving and investing information through social media targeting individuals ages 13–35. It will also provide online and face-to-face investor education programs through six public libraries, the virtual world of Second Life, and an outreach van that travels to community events and public libraries in small, rural communities throughout central Illinois.
Grant amount: $100,000

Bolivar County Library System, Cleveland, MS

In partnership with Delta State University, the library system will provide financial education programs for low-income women under age 30 living in the Mississippi delta.
Grant amount: $33,500

Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY

Brooklyn Public Library will reach low-income working adults with a six-part financial education series in four locations, inclusive of workshops and group counseling sessions offered in partnership with New York City's Office of Financial Empowerment and other city agencies. The library will also conduct workshops at multiple locations to help teens build their money-management skills.
Grant amount: $95,480

Estes Valley Library, Estes Park, CO

Estes Valley Library will partner with the local public schools to improve the financial literacy of children and teens throughout the region. The library will also sponsor programs that provide practical money skills to young parents and young workers in the area.
Grant amount: $62,203

Georgetown County Library, Georgetown, SC

Georgetown County Library and its partners will educate the community about money matters through a series of creative, multimedia activities that reference the county's economic history and that appeal to the different learning styles and interests of residents of all ages. The library and partner organizations will conduct outreach to area childcare providers, the county detention center, the local board of disabilities and special needs, and other agencies for the purpose of improving the basic financial literacy of those in need.
Grant amount: $87,300

Greensboro Public Library, Greensboro, NC

The grant will enable public librarians to collaborate with students and faculty from the economics and finance department of North Carolina A&T State University to provide a sequential financial literacy experience for library users ages 13 to 18. The library will also make available one-on-one counseling at its neighborhood branches on selected topics of importance to teens as they begin to take on financial responsibilities in their lives.
Grant amount: $96,500

Houston Public Library, Houston, TX

Houston Public Library will partner with the University of Houston and community organizations to offer a bilingual financial education series (from money basics to investing fundamentals) for the city's English and Spanish speaking families.
Grant amount: $99,000

Libraries of Eastern Oregon, Fossil, OR

This consortium will reach population centers in 15 rural communities in Umatilla and Morrow counties with in-person and distance learning on wide range of financial literacy topics. It will disseminate programs for senior citizens and Latino and Native American residents through partnerships with community colleges and other agencies, and create personal finance book clubs in English and Spanish.
Grant amount: $98,175

Jacksonville Public Library, Jacksonville, FL

The library will partner with Florida State College's Military Education Institute and Veterans Center, the City of Jacksonville's Military Affairs and Veterans Office, and the city's Disabled Services Office to help meet the financial education needs of northeast Florida veterans, active-duty servicemembers, and military spouses using workshops and online learning.
Grant amount: $100,000

Lewiston City Library, Lewiston, ID

Lewiston City Library will collaborate with area high schools to create an "Investment Day" competition for students; establish morning investment clubs to reinforce financial and investment concepts among students; organize an investment fair; and develop online video and audio presentations on investing topics.
Grant amount: $89,485

Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles, CA

The library will collaborate with community organizations to improve understanding of basic financial concepts and resources among ethnic communities, and present in-person workshops with the help of these community-based partners in Chinese-, Korean-, Spanish- and English-speaking neighborhoods.
Grant amount: $100,000

Middle Country Public Library, Centereach, NY

In partnership with area museums, Middle Country Public Library will create an interactive, traveling exhibit on money-related topics for students in grades kindergarten through five to be installed in the library's "museum corner" and to be accompanied by a schedule of family financial literacy nights with concurrent workshops for parents and children. The library will also design personal finance kits that include books, media and games for classroom and home use.
Grant amount: $77,400

Multnomah County Library, Portland, OR

The library will partner with the Oregon Society of CPAs and community organizations to help two high-need audiences: "parents at risk" (defined as low income and low literacy) and seniors susceptible to financial fraud. The project will pilot a "road show" model with a team that visits retirement centers, Head Start programs, and other nonprofits to provide hands-on learning on financial topics such as money management and online banking.
Grant amount: $100,000

Pike County Public Library District, Pikeville, KY

The library district will develop multigenerational financial education programs for consumers; partner with the school system to present programs in all elementary and high schools in this rural county; and collaborate with the Pike County Extension Office to offer monthly programs on planning for retirement.
Grant amount: $34,362

Queens Library, Jamaica, NY

Queens Library will collaborate with local nonprofits to provide investor education programs to immigrant and low-income residents in English, Spanish, Chinese, Bengali, Korean and other languages. The library will partner with financial educators from nonprofit agencies who will offer individualized consultations on basic financial concepts and safe, effective financial practices.
Grant amount: $100,000

State Library of Iowa, Des Moines, IA

This grant will enable a statewide financial literacy program serving 25 rural communities. The state library will partner with the Ames Public Library and Iowa State University Extension to deliver and replicate online and face-to-face classes for the public, and to design a statewide marketing campaign in support of financial education.
Grant amount: $98,251

Virginia Beach Public Library, Virginia Beach, VA

The library will deliver in-person and virtual financial literacy learning opportunities for youth ages 12 to 18 as they prepare to assume financial responsibilities in their lives. It will also conduct outreach to a nearby high school for pregnant teens and a juvenile detention center to help educate residents on money management basics.
Grant amount: $51,906

York County Library System, York, PA

The library system will develop interactive, multigenerational programs in English and Spanish at branch libraries and focus on building financial knowledge within York County families with children ages 5–7.
Grant amount: $43,505

 

2008

Athens-Clarke County Library, Athens, GA

Athens-Clarke County Library is undertaking a basic financial literacy initiative helping low-income workers with low educational attainment; expanding partnerships with local organizations, including the public schools and the Family and Consumer Economics College at the University of Georgia; and integrating financial literacy education into GED preparation programs at five community sites.
Grant amount: $94,510

Chesapeake Public Library, Chesapeake, VA

Chesapeake is expanding virtual library services, with help from Norfolk State University, using $ave $teve and a family of characters ($ave $ara, $ave $elma and $ave $am) who guide library patrons through age-appropriate online tutoring experiences in investment literacy. The library is also helping teachers use these online modules and promoting the $ave $teve family of personal finance characters to the media centers in Chesapeake's 41 public schools.
Grant amount: $100,000

Cuyahoga County Public Library, Parma, OH

The library is delivering an intergenerational financial literacy project for youth (primarily low income) in grades 5 through 12 and their parents at eight of its branches. It is also providing after-school and summer financial literacy experiences, and supporting learning objectives for schools consistent with Ohio's personal finance and economics requirements.
Grant amount: $99,000

Durham County Library, Durham, NC

Durham County Library is creating a financial workshop series for young parents of the region’s 37,000 preschool and elementary school children, with special emphasis on saving and investing for college. The project includes development of a Web page for busy young parents, direct access to financial databases and other relevant materials for library cardholders, an e-newsletter on personal finance, and online chats with experts.
Grant amount: $99,679

Fargo Public Library, Fargo, ND

The library is expanding its reach to multiple audiences, including young adults, seniors and the local community of new Americans and English language learners, through a series on personal finance and investing. It is breaking through language and cultural barriers to explain safe and effective financial practices and resources.
Grant amount: $53,000

Fond du Lac Public Library, Fond du Lac, WI

Fond du Lac Public Library is designing a virtual "Money Smart Neighborhood" and "Money Smart University" as year-long companion components of "Money Smart Week Wisconsin", a statewide financial literacy campaign. The library is giving special attention to the personal financial education needs of Baby Boomers nearing retirement and the Generation Y cohort that will replace them in the workforce.
Grant amount: $52,525

Glendale Public Library, Glendale, AZ

The public library in Glendale is reaching out to military service members and their families, low- and middle-income adults (both English and Spanish speaking), and teens from various economic backgrounds with multi-session financial and investor education seminars at library and community locations.
Grant amount: $81,219

Greenville County Library System, Greenville, SC

The library system in Greenville is partnering with faculty from the Clemson University Finance Department to address the financial and investment education needs of women ages 18-64, with particular emphasis on low-income heads of households. The partners are also providing concurrent money programs for children.
Grant amount: $49,550

Loveland Public Library, Loveland, CO

With Colorado State University Extension, Loveland Public Library is offering "Money Talks", both at the library and on Loveland's cable TV station, on topics ranging from the basics of budgeting to retirement planning. The library is also helping to prevent financial fraud among older investors through educational and outreach efforts conducted in partnership with the local police department, the county office on aging and local volunteers.
Grant amount: $31,887

New Haven Free Public Library, New Haven, CT

The library is collaborating with nearby higher-education institutions, especially faculty in the fields of business, economics and finance, on library programming about investing. It is integrating financial literacy resources and discussion groups as permanent features of its 50+ Transition Center.
Grant amount: $78,364

Pioneer Library System, Norman, OK

Pioneer is conducting personal finance seminars with interactive, hands-on materials at each of the nine public libraries in the region. As part of this work, it is partnering with state and regional agencies, including Potawatomi Nation, Chickasaw Nation and the Oklahoma Securities Commission to assist with library staff training and to provide instructional materials. Pioneer is also working with school districts to help them meet personal finance requirements for grades 7 through 12.
Grant amount: $78,713

Riverside County Library System, Riverside, CA

Riverside is modeling easy-to-replicate financial literacy programs for specific audiences; packaging and sharing these programs with 28 library outlets in the system; designing an intergenerational program for children in grades 3 to 6 and their parents; establishing a "Morning Coffee Investment Club;" creating financial workshops for youth ages 14 to 18; delivering a seven-part basic information series called "Money Skills for Life"; and coupling story time with financial literacy workshops for parents.
Grant amount: $63,523

 

2007

Alliance Library System, East Peoria, IL

Alliance Library System will offer onsite and Web-based workshops to provide investor information, establish a Smart Investing presence in the virtual world of Second Life, and operate a Smart Investing outreach van that will travel to community events and libraries throughout the Alliance's 14,000 square-mile service area in central Illinois.
Grant amount: $100,000

Ames Public Library, Ames, IA

In partnership with Iowa State University Extension, Ames Public Library will tailor online and on-site investor education classes for Generation X, Boomers and the Silent Generation and train public service librarians on the use of investing information tools and databases.
Grant amount: $77,672

Milwaukee Public Library, Milwaukee, WI

Milwaukee Public Library will Improve personal finance collections available at all library branches and online through the library's Web site, provide advanced training to library staff in the use of print and electronic investment resources and establish Smart Investing partnerships with organizations serving women, minorities and senior citizens.
Grant amount: $73,370

Naperville Public Library, Naperville, IL

Naperville Public Library will create online video tutorials on the use of financial databases, improve the accessibility of investing research tools on the library's Web site, train adult services librarians in investment research strategies and provide high school and college students with money management skills in preparation for financial independence.
Grant amount: $77,848

Natrona County Public Library, Casper, WY

Natrona County Public Library will provide a five-part investor education series for young adults, host inter-generational community forums on retirement preparedness and augment the library's collections on personal finance and investing.
Grant amount: $17,600

Newton Free Library, Newton, MA

Newton Free Library will sponsor a sustainable, inter-generational retirement planning club for women in partnership with community organizations, and train reference librarians on financial literacy in partnership with the Boston College Center for Retirement Research.
Grant amount: $46,100

Orange County Library District, Orlando, FL

Orange County Library District will organize an eight-part bilingual series on basic investing themes for Hispanic families, provide investor education video-on-demand for library patrons and staff and create a bilingual "eGuide" on personal finance for users of the library's Web site.
Grant amount: $96,360

Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County, Youngstown, OH

In partnership with community agencies, the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County is undertaking a coordinated financial literacy initiative for the county's low- and moderate-income families, with a focus on Earned Income Tax Credit preparation assistance and helping parents save and invest for their children's education.
Grant amount: $57,950

Sacramento Public Library, Sacramento, CA

Sacramento Public Library will organize an extensive lunchtime lecture series that provides information to investors, and moderate book groups (with concurrent youth activities) for professional women ages 20 to 64.
Grant amount: $60,000

Schaumburg Township District Library, Schaumburg, IL

Schaumburg Township District Library will produce and market an investor education Web portal, inclusive of videos introducing teen and adult patrons to investing-related library collections and reference services; and create a traveling multimedia exhibit to share with other Illinois libraries that provides high-impact visual lesson about investing.
Grant amount: $31,000

Southeastern Libraries Cooperating, Rochester, MN

Southeastern Libraries Cooperating will partner with public television station KSMQ to broadcast 13 half-hour segments entitled Financial Connections in rural and small-town communities, with corresponding library-based programming and Web-based events and resources.
Grant amount: $99,830

Timberland Regional Library, Tumwater, WA

Timberland Regional Library will produce, market and distribute a multimedia series of Ten Minute Topics about investing in partnership with community television and the Service Corps of Retired Executives. The library will also train information services librarians from 27 branch facilities throughout a 7,000 square-mile rural region and upgrade the investing collections available online and at each branch library.
Grant amount: $99,044

Winfield Public Library, Winfield, KS

Winfield Public Library will partner with the Chamber of Commerce in employing a women-helping-women approach to encourage better saving and investing practices, with particular attention paid to the learning needs of women small business owners. The library will also create a series of reference finding aids on investing topics to improve efficiency of accessing quality resources.
Grant amount: $16,600