Projects for the State Farm Youth Advisory Board

Youth Co-Op Financial Literacy Project
Miami, Florida
Year Funded: 2010
High school students engaged in this project will learn the principles of financial literacy, then educate the community by creating and presenting age-appropriate plays for elementary students at their schools.

Financial Connects
Carmel, Indiana
Year Funded: 2010
The Financial Connections project will provide a youth-oriented, interactive, and compelling financial literacy web portal designed by and created by students for use by students and schools to help increase financial literacy throughout America and other English speaking countries.

Sharing OurSelves (SOS) for America's Future
Athens, Georgia
Year Funded: 2010
Sharing OurSelves (SOS) for America's Future program will develop curriculum for middle school youth to pilot the program in ten communities. A national conference will be held for collegiate members of 4-H to develop their own financial literacy service-learning programs in their home states. Beneficiaries of these programs will lead educational workshops as well.

Building Teen Financial Literacy: A Peer-Directed Approach
Columbia, Missouri
Year Funded: 2010
The Building Teen Financial Literacy project will educate high school students on the proper skills they need for a healthy approach to successfully managing their personal finances. The peer-delivered curriculum focuses on fundamental foundations for lifelong financial success. The ultimate outcome will be a more financially literate population with the skills to avoid the most common financial pitfalls.

PATHWAY OUT OF POVERTY
Sand Springs, Oklahoma
Year Funded: 2010
Pathway out of Poverty will result in fiscal independence and the illumination of a pathway out of poverty and the necessary skills to follow that path. Youth-directed and youth-initiated service-learning will provide financial education in grades K-12 and to adults through Junior Achievement curriculum, Money Smart Curriculum from IBC Bank, and extensive mentoring.

White House Hydroponic Garden
Lihue, Hawaii
Year Funded: 2010
The White House Hydroponic Garden project allows students at school and in a club to grow food in a hydroponic garden. The garden will provide food for their family and they will sell lettuce to a neighbor. Excess food will be delivered to the local food bank. Curriculum at each grade level will be developed in economics and production of food.

The Chambersburg Area Senior High School Student Bank
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania
Year Funded: 2010
The CASHS Student Bank is a school-based enterprise that can create jobs and provide students an opportunity to establish and operate a real-world business. It provides immediate importance to students' school experiences, creates additional economic activity in the community, and develops a lifelong skill that continues to pay benefits in the community.

The Financial Literacy for All Initiative
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Year Funded: 2010
The Financial Literacy for All Initiative brings a diverse group of community members together using personal finance education. High school students will share their knowledge of personal finance with younger students and adults to illustrate the importance of making wise financial decisions regardless of age.

JA Programs: Youth Empowering Youth
Maplewood, Minnesota
Year Funded: 2010
High school and college youth will utilize Junior Achievement programs in elementary classrooms, experiential learning simulations and summer camps to teach elementary students about financial literacy using hands-on, interactive and relevant activities.

Financial SIM Project
Saint Louis, Missouri
Year Funded: 2010
Lutheran Family and Children's Services of Missouri's (LFCS) Financial SIM Project will train teens in basic financial education with an emphasis on three key areas: credit reports, credit cards and loans. The teens will facilitate financial education sessions for other youth, implement community workshops for teens, create an advocacy message promoting the importance of financial education within schools, and design and operate a holiday store.

Women on the Horizon
Toronto, Ontario
Year Funded: 2010
The Women on the Horizon program will engage a group of young women aged 12-18 in the establishment of a Social Enterprise project involving financial management.

Earn and Learn: An Economic and Civic Literacy Service-Learning Partnership
Durham, North Carolina
Year Funded: 2010
Service-learning students at Duke University will collaborate with the Durham community to increase financial decision-making skills of residents of the local Durham community. Through free tax preparation services and basic finance workshops, students will bring fiscal strategies to families and youth in the community.

Financial Empowerment Academy
Atlanta, Georgia
Year Funded: 2010
The Economic Empowerment Initiative will facilitate a series of educational forums on high school and college campuses that are centered around financial empowerment, particularly to engage students to create and develop adequate financial, leadership, and organizational skills.

Social Entrepreneurship & The JA Company Program: Learning Essential Financial Education Skills
San Diego, California
Year Funded: 2010
This Program is an exciting collaboration with Junior Achievement of San Diego (JASD) and Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE), a university business club at Point Loma Nazarene University in which undergraduate business students instruct the JA Company Program to at-risk high school students. Students who participate in the JA Company Program will learn essential financial, business and social entrepreneurship skills that will prepare them to succeed in today's global economy.