{"id":17777,"date":"2023-11-16T13:11:24","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T18:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.villagekidsnyc.org\/?page_id=17777"},"modified":"2025-08-07T09:10:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T13:10:24","slug":"financial-literacy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.villagekidsnyc.org\/?page_id=17777","title":{"rendered":"Financial Literacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Budding Entrepreneurs\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\nThis program empowers students with an entrepreneurial mindset to develop a plan for their very own business ideas, drawing from such disciplines as marketing, finance and strategy, in a supportive environment fostering teamwork. From designing marketing flyers to estimating profits, students have fun while developing a sense for business!<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Finance Club<\/span><br \/>\nLearn how to manage your money in this program promoting essential life skills! Set your financial goals, develop a budget from scratch, shop for a credit card and calculate the monthly cost of your dream car. Students also learn about mortgages, FICO scores, taxes and the dangers of piling up debt. Through simulations and hands-on activities, students explore financial decisions they will have to make in the future.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Money Math\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008080;\">Designed for our youngest students, this program is a real-life math lab where students learn computational concepts and develop a foundation for building financial literacy and healthy financial habits, using real-world situations. Students will play money math games, do budgeting activities and learn organizational skills.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">My First Food Truck<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Through this hands-on project kids learn key concepts like budgeting and how to translate ideas into concrete projects. In this workshop students <\/span><span style=\"color: #008080;\">select a theme for their food truck, design menus, estimate expenses, determine prices, and develop financial projections. This unique program offers a tasty way to develop business savvy!<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">My First Lemonade Stand\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\nIn this fun workshop, children will experiment with lemonade recipes, design their own flyers, learn how to count money and make change, and tally their expenses, sales and profits (or loss). During our semester showcase, children will set up their own stand, sell lemonade, and raise funds for a charity of their choice.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">My First Piggy Bank<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008080;\">Earn, save, spend, donate! Through math games and hands-on activities kids learn about these and other key financial concepts like money, budgeting and saving. Students will also learn the basic concepts of philanthropy and donating to charity. Last but not least&#8230; everyone will make their very own piggy bank to take home so they can practice what they learned!<\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Budding Entrepreneurs\u00a0 This program empowers students with an entrepreneurial mindset to develop a plan for their very own business ideas, drawing from such disciplines as marketing, finance and strategy, in a supportive environment fostering teamwork. 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