Native Financial Cents: Supporting Financial Capability for Native American Youth and Young Adults
The second call for the Native Financial Cents (NFC) Ambassadors is OPEN! The deadline to apply for NFC Virtual Train the Trainer Certification is October 28, 2020.
AISES debuted the Native Financial Cents: Supporting Financial Capability for Native Americans Curriculum and Ambassador Program in January 2020. The program, created with funding from the Wells Fargo Foundation, is designed to engage Native community educators in supporting financial education for youth and young adults.
Learning money management skills at an early age can help youth prepare for a stable and secure financial future. AISES’ culturally contextualized curriculum leverages content from Wells Fargo’s Hands on Banking® (HOB) program (www.handsonbanking.org) The HOB provides age appropriate financial education curricula for elementary school though high school/college.
The NFC curriculum incorporates Native customs, traditions, and culture so that content will be more relevant, easily understood, and applied by Native learners. The curriculum focuses on the importance of the participants’ connection to their culture, and the key role of community educators as part of that connection. The curriculum addresses commonalities among tribes, borrowing examples from individual tribes when necessary, also provides an opportunity for narrative content to be customized to tribal, and urban Native communities. The long-term impact of this project is to increase the financial capability of not only the Native youth but also the professionals that deliver the training.
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Call for Ambassadors:
AISES is currently seeking 50 Ambassadors who are interested and committed to providing financial education direct training to Native youth utilizing the Native Financial Cents: Supporting Financial Capability for Native Americans Curriculum and Wells Fargo’s Hands on Banking.
Ideal applicants are Native educators, community members, college students (tribal and mainstream), and AISES college chapters advisors who have previous experience teaching, are self-learners, and possess the following:
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Basic financial knowledge (know where money comes from, how to earn it, how to keep it safe, the difference between wants and needs, saving, and boosting earning power, etc.)
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Familiarity with your local community and ability to customize financial education trainings using the NFC Curriculum. The NFC is adaptable to virtual classrooms, classrooms, after school programs, summer camps, and other youth learning environments.
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Ability to engage at least 50 youth in financial education trainings in their communities and/or schools.
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Availability to attend the intensive 4 virtual hour training on Saturday, October 31, 2020, 9:00am – 1:00pm MST.
A $500 stipend will be provided to Ambassadors upon certification to deploy trainings in home communities and schools. The Native Financial Cents: Supporting Financial Capability for Native Americans Curriculum and financial education resources will be available via micro-site and the NFC Curriculum will be provided in hard copy.
Potential Ambassadors are asked to submit a brief interest survey online to share their experience, interest, and commitment to financial education by October 28, 2020. Applicants will be notified as they are accepted.
For more information or questions, please contact Marsha Whiting,
Associate Director of Programs, at mwhiting@aises.org.
To submit an interest survey, click the 'Submit an Interest Survey' button below.
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About Wells Fargo
The Wells Fargo Foundation, established in the U.S. as a registered 501(c)(3) charitable organization in 1980, is the company’s primary philanthropic funding arm.
As part of our long legacy of investing in community impact, we have increased our philanthropic giving 25 times over the past 28 years. In 2018, we reached a new milestone of donating $444 million to directly benefit nearly 11,000 nonprofit profit organizations. Beginning in 2019, Wells Fargo is targeting 2% of after-tax profits to philanthropy annually through the Wells Fargo Foundation and company donations.
Our philanthropic giving priorities
We concentrate our philanthropic investments on three key areas critical for economic advancement and prioritize the needs of populations and communities suffering from the greatest economic disparities:
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Housing affordability
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Beginning in 2019, Wells Fargo will donate $1 billion through 2025 to increase the availability of affordable homes and reduce the cost burden of housing for the one in six U.S. households paying half or more of their income on housing. We seek to collaborate with nonprofits and other community partners to develop scalable solutions to homelessness, transitional housing, rentals, and homeownership.
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Small business growth
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Wells Fargo focuses on programs that will help create jobs and deliver more stability to small business, particularly in underserved communities, including initiatives that provide access to capital, training, and technical assistance and other development opportunities that support the growth of diverse-owned businesses.
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Financial health
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We invest in financial education and coaching, homebuyer counseling, and other tools and resources to help underserved people, families, and small businesses to manage their money, establish healthy financial habits, and achieve financial independence and income mobility.
As part of Wells Fargo’s commitment to strengthening local communities, we also provide grants to local nonprofit organizations to support a wide range of needs in the communities in which we operate.
About AISES
Founded in 1977, The American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) is focused on substantially increasing the representation of North America’s Indigenous people – American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, First Nations, Métis, Inuit – in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) 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 areas. To learn more visit aises.org.
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