SDCCU is Helping Students Learn about Money and Business with Biz Kid$ Events Online
August 28, 2020
San Diego County Credit UNion
SAN DIEGO, Calif., (August 27, 2020) – San Diego County Credit Union® (SDCCU®), one of California’s largest locally-owned financial institutions, is hosting SDCCU Back to School with Biz Kid$ events online to help engage kids in distance learning environments going back to school with fun and interactive ways to learn about money, finances and business. Topics include: Crash Course on Starting a Business, Entrepreneurship; How Do You Get Money?, Credit and Debit; and What’s Your Money Personality?, Financial Basics. These Biz Kid$ Event online presentations will be held every Wednesday in September. To register for an upcoming event, visit sdccu.com/fww.
“With students distance learning in the fall, now is the great time for parents and teachers to incorporate some fun educational ways for kids to learn about finances, money and business into the school,” said SDCCU President and CEO Teresa Campbell. “As longtime advocates of the SDCCU Biz Kid$ program, we’re ecstatic to be able to offer Back to School Biz Kid$ events online to kids virtually returning to school in the fall.”
SDCCU launched the program in partnership with the San Diego County Office of Education and the County of San Diego, in support of Live Well San Diego, in 2015. Biz Kid$ is an award-winning, comprehensive financial literacy program focused on teaching kids how to use credit wisely and about the importance of saving, budgeting, investing and giving back to their communities. The Biz Kid$ program and all episodes are based on national standards for financial literacy and entrepreneurship education, and have been mapped to individual state standards.
For more information and to access online resources visit sdccu.com/bizkids.
San Diego County Credit Union is San Diego’s largest locally-owned financial institution serving San Diego, Riverside and Orange counties. SDCCU has assets of $9.3 billion, more than 423,000 customers, over 40 convenient branch locations and 30,000 surcharge-FREE ATMs. SDCCU provides breakthrough banking products that meet the demands of today’s lifestyle and delivers banking services that save customers money. SDCCU is leading the way, offering FREE Checking with eStatements, SDCCU mobile banking, mortgage loans, auto loans, Visa® credit cards and business banking services. Federally insured by NCUA. Equal Housing Opportunity. For more information, visit www.sdccu.com.