Moneythink |
| CBS Philly |
| October 18, 2011 |
Moneythink teaches high school students financial literacy — how to manage money, a bank account and become entrepreneurs. It’s not been developed by a bank or money fund, but by five University of Chicago students as a non-profit with peer mentors who teach a ten-week curriculum. Five other colleges have started the program. |
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New CI group preaches money smarts |
| Columbia Spectator |
| October 10, 2011 |
Many low-income students know all too well that money talks, but a new Community Impact program aims to teach students that money thinks too. |
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Meet the New Generation of Entrepreneurs |
| MSN Business on Main |
Starting a business is a challenge for anyone. But starting one when you’re a 19-year-old college student? That’s even harder. Yet that’s exactly what Ted Gonder did. Gonder, now 21 and a senior majoring in geography at the University of Chicago, is the co-founder and executive director of Moneythink, a nonprofit that trains college students to teach financial literacy and entrepreneurship in local urban high schools. |
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‘There’s a Lot of Pits to Fall Into, and It’s Easy to Overspend Your Money’ |
| The Chronicle of Higher Education |
| September 25, 2011 |
The University of Chicago is known for its economics faculty, which promotes the notion of a free-market economy and has been criticized as encouraging decisions that led to the current recession. Not far from the campus, the effects of the depressed economy are visible on Chicago’s South Side, with empty lots, foreclosed buildings, and high-interest lenders nearby. |
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Chicago Nonprofit Moneythink Ignites Support for Financial Literacy, Entrepreneurship Education |
| tech.li |
| May 3, 2011 |
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On May 12, Chicago-based nonprofit Moneythink is hosting an event to gain support for its mission to train talented, dedicated college students to teach high school students in underserved neighborhoods the fundamentals of entrepreneurship and financial literacy. |
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Students teach finance to local high school students |
| Daily Trojan |
| April 6, 2011 |
Learning how to manage personal finances might not be on the minds of most high school students, but a group of USC students has started a volunteer organization on campus to teach local high schoolers how to do just that. |
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Capital Ideas: Moneythink ventures to bring financial literacy to South Side students |
| Chicago Weekly |
| April 14, 2010 |
At 8:20am on a beautiful spring morning, sunlight is streaming through the chipped windows of a third floor classroom of Woodlawn Charter High School at 64th Street and Woodlawn Avenue, onto the sleepy faces of a group of high school seniors, their heads resting on their hands. On the walls of the classroom are two posters of Muhammad Ali (“I am the greatest”) and one of Che Guevara (“The people liberate themselves”). The two University of Chicago freshmen standing in the circle of tables, themselves barely out of senior year, are trying to bring the students a different kind of inspiration. |
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College students tackle financial illiteracy |
| Chicago Tribune |
| April 6, 2010 |
In a dreary classroom overlooking a blighted block on the South Side, I watched three University of Chicago students teach seniors at Hales Franciscan High School the finer points of money management. I came expecting tips on budgeting and instead found that elusive place called “common ground.” |
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