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As a Credit Union Service Organization, Member Access Pacific (MAP) is committed to forwarding the credit union legacy of promoting financial literacy for all ages. Promoting financial literacy has been a primary mission of credit unions since they were established. Edward A. Filene, the father of the American credit union movement in 1908, put it candidly: “Credit unions are educational institutions.” Credit union volunteers have been teaching in classrooms for decades and setting up branch offices in schools to encourage students’ interest and involvement in financial education. It was credit unions that formed the National Youth Involvement Board (NYIB) to focus on youth marketing, youth education, and youth leadership.

MAP's Financial Literacy Brochure: "It's neven too early to start learning about money."

Practical Money Skills For Life
To help today’s youths and consumers of all ages become financially savvy, Member Access Pacific (MAP), in association with Visa, partners with leading consumer advocates, educators and financial institutions in a wide-reaching program to improve the nation’s financial skills -- Practical Money Skills for Life.

Visa has developed a free Web site (available through MAP’s Web site at mapacific.com/resource-center/PracticalMoneySkills.php) designed to help educators, parents and students practice better money management for life. In addition to providing online tools and resources via the Web site, Visa has created free classroom material that educators can use to teach personal finance. Available online or in a binder format, the classroom curriculum is free. It offers a teacher’s guide, student worksheets and quizzes and interactive brain-teasers that can be played by students via the Web or from a CD-ROM. Practical Money Skills for Life is educator-developed and educator-approved. In fact, at the recent National Education Association’s Expo, more than 94 percent of the educators surveyed graded the program an “A” or “B” and 98 percent said they would recommend to a fellow educator.

Overview of Visa's Financial Literacy Program: "Practical Money Skills for Life"