First Commonwealth Bank ready to go back to school with Financial Education program
INDIANA, Pa. — As nearly 56 million projected K-12 students nationally head back to the classroom to embark on another academic year, First Commonwealth Bank’s Anna Frank and bank partners are preparing to return to school for another reason.
Frank oversees First Commonwealth’s Financial Education program, which helps educate students during their formative years and understand the basics of finances. She is looking forward to taking the bank’s financial education program back to the area classrooms.
“We believe that no matter where someone is on their financial journey, everyone can benefit from practical, easy-to-understand financial education,” said Frank. “We especially love kids and helping get their financial lives off to a great start. Providing financial education is one of our favorite ways to live our mission to improve the financial lives of our neighbors and their businesses.”
First Commonwealth presents approximately 20 school presentations a month, and another 20 sessions at other venues in-person and virtually throughout the bank’s footprint. While First Commonwealth is based in Indiana, Frank and others are able to visit schools and teach classes across the bank’s footprint, which includes Western, Central and Eastern Pennsylvania and Central, Southern and Northern Ohio. Frank’s approach is to team a school with one of FCB’s bankers in that area, and utilizes the FDIC’s Money Smart Curriculum.
The course is a comprehensive program with 98 different topics in five different curriculums and is not only for school-aged youth, but can be adapted for young adults, adults, older adults and even small business owners. It covers budgeting, saving, credit, protecting one from scams and more. Custom topics can also be designed if the Money Smart Curriculum does not cover a specific topic in which the schools are interested.
To schedule a Financial Education session, contact Frank at volunteerism@fcbanking.com.
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