How to Find Helpful Financial Literacy Activities

Let’s turn our focus now toward a real-world instance when someone successfully used our financial literacy activities in their own career:

Selena is a supervisor at a STEM-focused day camp in Oregon, where she is in charge of supervising 24 camp counselors. A number of the counselors with whom she works were coming up to her with financial literacy based questions, so she realized that she could do some good by finding a way to help them all with this topic at once. This subject matter was already very familiar to her, but she had no idea where to begin.

During one of their usual meetings, she did an informal survey of the whole group and quickly came to the realization that most of them had zero knowledge of financial literacy topics. She would need to introduce this group to the very beginning of this topic.

What would be the best first step toward achieving her goal? Selena realized that the first direction to take with her financial literacy activities would ideally be a focus on just the core principles – the basics. Down the line, though, her goal was to eventually make sure each one of them got a functional and useful understanding of personal finance.

A Simple Next Step

The choice was made – Selena knew exactly what she hoped to achieve both immediately and over the long term. From that moment in her path, she needed to figure out the ideal method of delivering such priceless information. This particular collection of camp counselors had schedules that were all over the map, which made her realize that internet-based financial literacy activities would be ideal.  She wanted this to be engaging and fun for the participants so a program that included financial literacy games was important to her.

Selena was well on her way. At that point in her journey, she would have to figure out a narrower core focus for the course she was planning. This group was made up of young, college-aged individuals, so she decided to build fun financial literacy activities with a main concentration on building good credit history.

Ideal Timing for Financial Literacy Activities

All the members of this group had wildly mismatched schedules and varying amounts of free time at their disposal. Selena would end up needing fun financial literacy activities that, without sacrificing quality, would still work inside of these particular time constraints. With that understanding, she decided to ensure she created a solution that’s broken up into smaller, easy-to-digest modules that can be done whenever.

Selena was quite certainly able to teach any learner the key concepts of financial literacy in her workshop, but she knew that she would need to make this learning journey an entertaining one. That’s why she chose to seek out some assistance: she contacted an easily-accessible NFEC Certified Educator who was skilled in that aspect of planning a fun financial literacy activities.

Checking Out the Data

Thanks to support from the NFEC, Selena was able to pull off a successful program! Of the 24 counselors who decided to participate, 22 ended up finishing the entire first financial literacy activities – adding up to a success rate of 92%. A quick survey given out at the end of the program demonstrated that 92% of the students had “significantly” grown their understanding of money management concepts. Selena managed to quickly generate a simple, sleek visual data report that demonstrated the course’s successful results.