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On Friday night at the Chicago Board Option Exchange (CBOE), Moneythink had a blast at the Chicago Fed’s Money Smart Week Preview party. We listened to a panel of distinguished speakers and guests from the Financial community leading the discussion on the importance of financial literacy within the United States. We met and heard from …

Guys, Money Smart Week 2011 is here! And guess what? Moneythink is an official partner with the Chicago FED this year and we’re co-sponsoring an education seminar and dinner with Smarys.com! Where? Downtown — DePaul University 1 E Jackson Blvd, Chicago, IL 60604 When? 5:00 P.M. – 8:00 P.M. It’s called “How to Make Financial …

At the Future of Entrepreneurship Education Summit a couple weeks ago, leaders from the field spoke on what it will take to drive economic growth and social change in the 21st century. Jeff Hoffman, founder of Priceline.com, talked about how the keys to success in entrepreneurship are about best-practices and science. He insisted that this …

We are proud to announce the launch of the Moneythink Neighborhood Spotlight, a campaign to detail the circumstances of poverty and lack of opportunity that abound within the impoverished communities in which Moneythink operates. Each Spotlight will highlight the challenges currently facing high school students in a chosen area, followed by an outline of Moneythink’s …

The first of many videos as we race to raise $30,000 dollars. Here’s what you need to know: Once a week until May 15th, we’ll be posting two different vlog series: #studentventure Follow us as we work with a class students at Perspective Charter School to build their first ever venture. It’s a school dance/ …

Anybody who has watched a presidential election can tell you that one of the candidates in the map below is going to lose out badly. But this isn’t about a presidential election; the map below shows the states that require financial literacy education to graduate from high school. Funding for schools is generally given on …

I’ve spent the weekend hanging out with some of the bright students from MPowered, the University of Michigan’s club of student entrepreneurs. The small town of Ann Arbor happens to be among the primary tech centers in the country, and the University’s top engineering and business programs consistently churns out top players in all the …

After a successful pilot program, 20 college mentors at the University of California, Los Angeles Moneythink chapter are gearing up to start mentoring students at Roosevelt High School and 32nd High School in the Los Angeles area in the fall of 2011. With the launch of the UCLA chapter, MoneyThink is now at three California …

Co-founder Ted Gonder and I had our third session at Perspectives Charter today, a fantastic program that is revolutionizing the way that we look at programs across the country.  In class we played an interesting game.  Students stood in groups of three in a circle around the room.  The first group that we pointed at …