FINRA Investor Education Foundation
Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) is proud to partner with the FINRA Investor Education Foundation (FINRA Foundation) to provide financial education programming and digital resources to meet the needs of girls and their families in underserved communities. The initiative is timely and aligns with the large-scale, cross-cultural research that finds financial education to be an important tool for improving financial knowledge and key financial outcomes. Earlier FINRA Foundation research indicated that higher levels of financial literacy are a strong indicator of positive financial outcomes and behaviors for the future.
Together, the FINRA Foundation and GSUSA created the GSUSA Financial Empowerment Event Toolkit, which aligns with GSUSA’s existing Financial Literacy, Entrepreneurship, and Cookie Business badges to teach girls key financial concepts. The toolkit, which is available to all 111 councils, features customizable materials councils can use to provide financial education programming for girls in grades K–12. In addition, GSUSA and the Foundation introduced the first set of bilingual (English/Spanish) Daisy badge requirements and are working this year to further expand this bilingual programming to Brownies, creating more opportunities for bilingual families to experience Girl Scouts together.
Six councils will collaborate with the FINRA Foundation and FINRA staff to offer financial education programming in underserved communities.
About the FINRA Investor Education Foundation
The FINRA Investor Education Foundation supports innovative research and educational projects that give underserved Americans the knowledge, skills, and tools to make sound financial decisions throughout life. The Foundation accomplishes this mission through educational programs and research that help consumers make more informed financial decisions and achieve their goals. The FINRA Foundation’s Financial Inclusion Framework—built on pillars of communications, education, and research—aims to create new understanding and relationships that lead to people from underserved communities fully and equitably participating in the financial mainstream. For more information about FINRA Foundation, visit FINRAFoundation.org.
About FINRA
FINRA is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to investor protection and market integrity. It regulates one critical part of the securities industry—brokerage firms doing business with the public in the United States. FINRA, overseen by the SEC, writes rules, examines for, and enforces compliance with FINRA rules and federal securities laws, registers broker-dealer personnel and offers them education and training, and informs the investing public. In addition, FINRA provides surveillance and other regulatory services for equities and options markets, as well as trade reporting and other industry utilities. FINRA also administers a dispute resolution forum for investors and brokerage firms and their registered employees. For more information, visit www.finra.org.
