Since 1986, Maryland bankers have reached more than 496,250 students, adults and seniors through consumer education programs. Directing efforts toward both children and adults, bankers are sharing sound financial management and basic money skills with a wide audience.
Attention Members - Don't forget to submit the Consumer Education Activity Report and inform MBA of your consumer education and financial literacy efforts. Click here to download the printable form or click the Online Presentation Registration Form to the right and submit your information electronically.
Financial Education Awards
In 2004 MBA introduced the Financial Education Awards to recognize outstanding consumer education initiatives taking place across Maryland. Awards are given in various categories for programs and activities that reinforce financial literacy concenpts such as developing good savings, budgeting techniques, money management skills, establishing and managing credit, understanding mortgage and consumer lending products and a variety of consumer protection practices.
MBA's Consumer Education Council Chairman, Michael Middleton (President and CEO/Community Bank of Tri-County), presented the Financial Education Awards on September 12, 2007 at the Center Club in Baltimore. Congratulations to this year's winners!
School-Age Children Category (assets <$1 Billion)
School-Age Children Category (assets >$1 Billion)
Young Adults Category (all asset sizes) Adults/Seniors Category (all asset sizes)
Educational Tools
Through the years, the MBA has developed a wide range of tools for bankers to use in consumer education efforts in schools, in their institutions, and in the communities they serve. By various activities, initiatives and partnerships, the MBA continually works toward educating Marylanders on financial literacy and developing a strong understanding of the financial ABCs.
In 2004, MBA elevated consumer education to one of its five mission areas (communications, consumer education, advocacy, professional development and services) further demonstrating out commitment and pledge to educate Maryland residents on financial literacy.
MBA's ongoing initiatives include educating the State's bankers on how to offer consumer education projects in their respective communities and supporting national focus events such as Get Smart About Credit Day and Teach Children to Save Day. MBA also support the ongoing mission of the Maryland Coalition for Financial Literacy. The Association was a founding member of this organization which is striving to include financial literacy instruction as a graduation requirement for every Maryland high school graduate.
MBA's goal is to ensure that every child in Maryland has consistent access to quality financial literacy education so that their financial ABCs are as well known as other basic life skills.
MBA is pleased to support these great programs:
- Maryland Coalition for Financial Literacy
- ABA Education Foundation
- Get Smart About Credit Day
- Teach Children to Save Day
- FDIC Money Smart
- Academy of Finance
- Junior Achievement
Build-A-Banker
MBA's Consumer Education Council founded a special professional development program for high school students who have demonstrated an interest in persuing a careeer in the financial services industry. The Build-A- Banker program highlights the wide variety of career opportunities available in our industry by targeting students enrolled in a local Academy of Finance program.
MBA's Consumer Education Council founded a special professional development program for high school students who have demonstrated an interest in persuing a careeer in the financial services industry. The Build-A- Banker program highlights the wide variety of career opportunities available in our industry by targeting students enrolled in a local Academy of Finance program.
MBA's Consumer Education Council founded a special professional development program for high school students who have demonstrated an interest in persuing a careeer in the financial services industry. The Build-A- Banker program highlights the wide variety of career opportunities available in our industry by targeting students enrolled in a local Academy of Finance program.
Professional bankers present sessions that expand the students' knowledge of career opportunities beyond the teller position by exposing them to the inner world of banking in areas such as lending, bookeeping/finance, marketing, human resources, branch management, training, customer service and technology. Students also learn leadership skills from a CEO and develop a better understanding of how banks serve their customers. Participation in the Build-A-Banker program is by invitation. MBA conducts two sessions annually, one in the Spring and one in the Fall.
