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AISES Launches New Native Financial Cents Website!

 

 

The American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) is pleased to announce the launch of the Native Financial Cents (NFC) website at , an online resource center to help Native American youth and young adults build financial capability skills.

 

According to the , the median income of American Indian and Alaska Native households was, $40,315, lower than any other racial group. This wealth gap indicates the significant need for financial education in Native communities to build and maintain good financial health.

 

The Native Financial Cents: Supporting Financial Capability for Native Americans curriculum was developed with support and funding from the Wells Fargo Foundation. AISES built upon the Wells Fargo Hands on Banking® program, a free noncommercial online money management program, creating a supplemental curriculum centering Native culture and traditions to ensure financial education is more relevant and accessible to Native learners. Research has shown, incorporating cultural and historical background information into curricula enriches lessons and relates topics to students’ personal lives.

NFC Ambassador Training 2020

The NFC website contains tools for money management giving Native youth the skills and knowledge to make informed decisions regarding their financial resources. Included in the NFC curriculum are the five core competicies of financial literacy: Earning, Saving & Investing, Spending, Borrowing, and Protecting. Students learn that what they do today in terms of spending, saving, borrowing, and planning will either build towards or detract from their ability to pursue opportunities.

 

Native Financial Cents is a financial education curriculum that incorporates unique tools and resources for teaching Native learners including instructional strategies and training techniques. Additionally, Native Financial Cents incorporates Native cultures into financial education, providing students with a deeper, more culturally rich understanding of contemporary and historic wealth and wealth management for Native people.

 

Also, in 2020, AISES and Wells Fargo launched the NFC Ambassador Program which trained 50 Native Ambassadors to teach the NFC curriculum to community members.

 

“The unfortunate reality is that many Native communities do not have opportunities to learn about and develop financial skills. Through our work with AISES, we aim to increase access to financial health tools and resources that will set Native young people up for greater success and create pathways to economic mobility,” said Bonnie Wallace, manager of Financial Health Philanthropy at Wells Fargo.

 

For more information on NFC, visit

About AISES

Founded in 1977, the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) is a national nonprofit organization focused on substantially increasing the representation of Indigenous peoples of North America and the Pacific Islands in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) studies and careers. This robust nonprofit currently supports individual student and professional members across the U.S. and Canada in critically needed STEM disciplines. Through chartered college and university chapters, tribal chapters, and affiliated K-12 schools, members benefit from diverse STEM-focused programming that supports careers and promotes student success and workforce development in multiple crucial areas. To learn more visit .

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