ADVISORY/Three Leading CEO's, Including Wells Fargo CEO Dick Kovacevich, Hold a Teleconference to Introduce America's First Online/Offline Financial Literacy Educational Program.News & Assignment Editors ADVISORY...for Tuesday (Oct. 30) --(BUSINESS WIRE)
10,000 Children Impacted by Nationwide Launch
WHAT: CEO's of three leading companies will discuss the following
during a teleconference debuting Banking On Our Future, the
first financial literacy program ever to combine the power of
the Internet with the power of financial literacy volunteers.
-- Congressional support: Congressmen Earl Pomeroy and David
Dreier strongly support the Banking On Our Future program
as a key building block to our country's economic success
-- Congressman Pomeroy: Proposed including a financial
literacy program in the congressional economic stimulus
package
-- Congressman Dreier: Added a financial literacy grant program
in the high-priority Education Bill
-- Money management skills included in the program -- skills
excluded from most school curriculums
-- Details on significant business partnerships
-- Details on events happening across the country in multiple
cities that will have an immediate impact on 10,000 children
WHEN: Tuesday, October 30
12-1 p.m. PT
U.S. Based Press Dial-in Number: 1-888-273-9885
WHO: The following CEO's will be on the teleconference:
-- Dick Kovacevich, CEO of Wells Fargo & Co
-- John Bryant, CEO of Operation HOPE
-- Greg Priest, CEO of SmartForce
About Banking On Our Future: In the first program ever to combine the power of the Internet with the power of financial literacy Financial literacy is the ability of individuals to make appropriate decisions in managing their personal finances. Raising levels of financial literacy is now a focus of government programmes in countries including[1] Australia, Japan, the United States and the UK. volunteers, the nation's first and leading Internet bank has teamed with leaders in e-learning and community financial literacy to launch a far-reaching online program called "Banking on Our Future." Wells Fargo Wells Fargo armored carriers of bullion. [Am. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 1147] See : Protectiveness Wells Fargo company that handled express service to western states; often robbed. [Am. Hist. & Co. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :WFC WFC Wi-Fi Connection (Nintendo gaming service) WFC Wide-Field Camera WFC World Financial Center (New York) WFC Workforce Center WFC World Federation of Chiropractic WFC World Food Council ) has partnered with Operation HOPE, a non-profit organization A non-profit organization (abbreviated "NPO", also "non-profit" or "not-for-profit") is a legally constituted organization whose primary objective is to support or to actively engage in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit purposes. founded to support economic empowerment em·pow·er tr.v. em·pow·ered, em·pow·er·ing, em·pow·ers 1. To invest with power, especially legal power or official authority. See Synonyms at authorize. 2. of the inner city, and SmartForce (Nasdaq:SMTF SMTF Shuttle Mission Training Facility SMTF Symmetrix Multihost Transfer Facility Software SMTF Software Maintenance Test Facility SMTF Show Me The Funny (TV show) ), the world's largest e-learning company, to give school children and adults nationwide access to online financial literacy skills not taught in typical school curriculums. |
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