Higher One Empowering Students To Reach Their Full Potential.pdf Jun. 2014 | Page 24

It’s not just about partnering with you to improve life on campus… Our mission of student success extends to places far and wide. One For Your Money Community-Based Efforts Higher One CARES which not only fuels our products With over 350,000 annual page views, Reaching students before they enter college Our Community Action for Resources and services, but is ingrained in our student blog provides financial is also a top priority for our financial literacy Education and Service was formed by information, tips and answers to students’ efforts. Currently, we provide free financial employees to help identify opportunities money management questions. Here, literacy workshops for high school students, for community involvement and students find informative articles, videos, Junior Achievement and more recently, engagement. Though CARES supports tools and other resources on budgeting, recent refugees through a local not-for-profit a variety of local not-for-profits, its spending control, debt management, organization. mission is focused on education. We believe in open communication and a dedication to innovation everything we do. Administrators and Parents identity protection and other important Although Higher One’s ultimate goal is to personal finance topics. One For Your Higher One also sponsors an online program provide useful financial education tools Money was recently named one of Cheap to 50 high schools in nine states across that students can easily access, we also do Scholar’s Top Ten Student Financial the country, providing financial literacy the same for administrators and parents Literacy Resources on the web. instruction to over 4,000 students each year. through financial guides and free financial In addition, we proudly support financial literacy workshops and webinars. literacy training for nearly 2,000 elementary and secondary teachers in the Greater New Additionally, we sponsor a major national study on the financial attitudes and Financial Literacy Counts Grant Program York area through the Council for Economic Education’s Center of Economic and Financial Education. Through this initiative alone, we behaviors of over 40,000 first-year college students called Money Matters on The purpose of Financial Literacy Campus, to help college administrators Counts is to help support on-campus better understand key financial factors financial literacy promotional programs affecting student retention and success. and initiatives. To date, we have given $106,000 to more than 30 colleges and universities with an estimated impact on more than 6,000 students nationwide. will reach more than 25,000 students!