MassMutual collaborates with the Girl Scouts of the USA to educate girls about financial literacy, empowering them to make smart financial decisions, enabling them to be more capable of setting future financial goals, and, ultimately, become financially independent.

Research shows that although U.S. teens account for a significant amount of cash purchases made each year, they lack the skills to fully understand how to save and invest their finances responsibly. With assistance from charitable foundations of major corporations like Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual), today's girls are introduced to the workings of money and educated about the importance of saving and investing. MassMutual's support of Girl Scouts of the USA's financial literacy work helps to lay the foundation for today's girls—tomorrow's women—to increase their own income, become responsible consumers, create a budget, manage credit, and save and invest for the future.

MassMutual also donated a share of the proceeds from the commercial sale of A Woman's Guide to Investing (Morris, Virginia B., and Kenneth M. Morris. New York: Lightbulb Press, 2003) to Girl Scouts of the USA. Complimentary copies of this user-friendly guide to investing were distributed to Girl Scouts of the USA staff.

The MassMutual Financial Group is a global, growth-oriented diversified financial services organization. MassMutual's family of companies serves the needs of over 10 million clients, and offers a broad-based portfolio of financial products and services, including mutual funds*, money management, trust services**, retirement planning products, life insurance, annuities, disability income insurance, and long-term care insurance. As good corporate citizens, the MassMutual Financial Group companies are committed to improving the communities in which we live and work.

* Securities offered through registered representatives of MML Investors Services, Inc.

** Trust services provided by The MassMutual Trust Company, FSB