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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is offering some great financial literacy programming ideas … plus promotional materials to order for you library.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Correal, Dubis (CFPB) [mailto:Dubis.Correal@cfpb.gov]
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, December 19, 2014 8:45 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Correal, Dubis (CFPB)<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Correal, Dubis (CFPB)<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Three reasons to promote post-holiday financial literacy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">January is a great time to promote financial education in the library. There are several reasons why. First
is the <b>holiday money hangover</b>. People tend to overspend and rely on credit or deplete savings to buy gifts, travel, or do whatever else it takes to make the season bright. But just as the New Year confetti is swept away, the December bills start arriving.
Second is <b>New Year resolutions</b>. Financial resolutions are very popular, and many people will start to investigate how to invest, save smarter, or get out of debt. Third is
<b>tax season</b>. Toward the end of January, tax forms will start arriving in mailboxes and people will reflect on how much they’ve earned, review how their money performed, and plan for their refunds.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">One of our December
<a href="http://www.consumerfinance.gov/library-resources/librarian-training/">program ideas</a> focuses on debt reduction, which will give you some content and contact ideas to help you get started. You can also review past program ideas, and view our training
<a href="http://www.consumerfinance.gov/library-resources/librarian-training/">webinars</a> so you can be ready to help your patrons.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Money Smart Week, April 18-25<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">If your library is new to financial education, Money Smart Week is a good way to kick things off. The campaign
offers a number of resources, partner information and event ideas. Last year more than 1,000 libraries participated in Money Smart Week. The CFPB is a national Money Smart week Partner, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago is a partner in our Community
Financial Education Program. Learn more at <a href="http://www.moneysmartweek.org/">
moneysmartweek.org</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">CFPB director touts library program’s success
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">On December 5, we traveled to the
<a href="http://www.columbuslibrary.org/">Columbus Metropolitan Library</a> to train library staff and community partners from central Ohio on the CFPB’s Community Financial Education Program. The Columbus Library is one of the nine original partners that helped
us develop the program. We were also joined by the Bureau’s director, Richard Cordray, who calls Columbus home, and whose financial education relationship with the Columbus Library dates back to his time as Franklin County Treasurer. Director Cordray
<a href="http://www.consumerfinance.gov/newsroom/prepared-remarks-of-cfpb-director-richard-cordray-at-the-columbus-metropolitan-library/">
spoke about the success of the program</a> – the success all of you have helped us build – and later told a reporter that he was “<a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/blog/2014/12/cordray-astonished-by-cfpb-progress-on-columbus.html">astonished</a>”
by the program’s rapid growth and how much libraries across the country have embraced financial education.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="mailto:financialeducation@cfpb.gov">Contact us</a> if you would like to hold a regional training in
your library. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Free print marketing materials available for order<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Posters, bookmarks, and displays can now be ordered and delivered to your library free of charge. Visit our
<a href="http://promotions.usa.gov/cfpblibraries.html">Free Print Materials</a> page to order up to 1,000 copies of each item. An assortment of publications from the CFPB and other federal agencies are also available for you to order and provide to your customers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Screensavers, web banners and share graphics, too</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Several electronic marketing items are available for your use, as well. You can
<a href="http://www.consumerfinance.gov/library-resources/marketing-materials/">download</a> banners and graphics to share online, as well as choose from several screen savers you can upload to your public access terminals.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:120%;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#595959">Dubis Correal<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#595959;letter-spacing:.35pt">Office of Financial Education<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#595959;letter-spacing:.35pt">Division of Consumer Education and Engagement
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<span lang="FR-HT" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#595959;letter-spacing:.35pt">Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
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<span lang="FR-HT" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#595959;letter-spacing:.35pt">Tel: 202 435 7937<br>
Email: <a href="mailto:dubis.correal@cfpb.gov">dubis.correal@cfpb.gov</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#54B847">consumerfinance.gov</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#595959"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;line-height:120%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Visit
<a href="http://promotions.usa.gov/cfpbpubs.html">http://promotions.usa.gov/cfpbpubs.html</a> to get free copies of CFPB consumer brochures
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