It’s a New Year: Time to Face Your Financial Fears!
A guest blog from our friends and partners at Pockets Change:
But first we want to share some exciting news!
“Pockets Change will receive the 2022 Innovation Award for its creativity and ingenuity and its ability to connect financial topics to a diverse audience. Inspiring financial conversations across generations, Pockets Change Hip Hop pedagogy promotes youth-led learning and professional relationship building for social impact “to address systemic issues of education equity and the racial wealth divide”. Their HipHopFinFest annual concert brings together learners and leaders to change the way we talk about money. Students and artists create songs that unpack systems, express personal values, and inspire advocacy.”
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At Pockets Change, we’re thrilled to team up with The Public Good in offering community education programming. This month, we want to offer some words on how to move forward with our financial fears, and learn to push beyond them. Money is emotional, and dealing with financial systems can be scary.
We recently had the pleasure of speaking at the 60th annual Economic Education conference, where we shared the 5 Steps to Financial Resilience. We want to share those 5 steps with you this month as well, in addition to a couple of gems from the Asking For A Friend webcomic.
When we talk about money we can face fears and take action together to advocate for ourselves and others, and the earlier we start, the better. That's why bringing financial education into our classrooms is so important.
But don't just take our word for it – check out this interview with Education Secretary Miguel Cardona about the value of including personal finance lessons in early education.
The big takeaway this month is that in order to face our financial fears, we just need to take things one step at a time. Not everything is as scary as it first seems.
What We Do to Make Change
Pockets Change builds financial resilience through Hip Hop pedagogy. By connecting Hip Hop and Finance, we develop an understanding of ourselves and our relationship with money. We build financial habits that resonate with our personal identity. We discover how we process information and how to effectively communicate & collaborate. By starting with self-care and personal agency we build our individual capacity to take part in social justice efforts and create change in our lives, our communities, and our world.
Resources to Make Change in Your Community
Financial education is about much more than numbers. Our world needs change makers addressing individual challenges and institutional barriers around finances. Starting money conversations equips us as individuals and communities take action.
Check out the Pockets Change Toolkit for student, parent, and teacher resources!