M&T Bank Employees To Teach Dollars and Sense in Local Schools
2009年4月21日 - 3:49AM
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BUFFALO, N.Y., April 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- M&T Bank
employees are going into classrooms to teach what they know. They
will be teaching elementary, middle and high school students about
effectively using money. Nearly 60 volunteers will teach in
classrooms at 42 schools across three states, expecting to reach
almost 2,000 students. They are participating in the 13th annual
"Teach Children to Save Day" today, with classes continuing next
week. The national observance focuses on students learning
everything from saving for their much-wanted electronic devices and
learning how prices change over time to spending wisely. M&T
employees will join thousands of bankers across the country
visiting local schools tomorrow, April 21, as part of the American
Bankers Association Education Foundation's National Teach Children
to Save Day, a financial literacy program established in 1997.
Volunteers will present lessons on balancing checkbooks, budgeting
and much more. They are role models in the classroom and their
presence offers examples of professional success as well as
commitment to the community. "The national goal is to reach one
million children through this program this year, and we expect a
domino effect from that effort. When one child learns a useful
saving strategy and shares it with another or one student takes a
new, money game home to share with the family, we have achieved our
mission. In each case, learning a smart money tactic is advanced
beyond one child," said M&T Bank President Mark Czarnecki.
M&T volunteers are teaching students in the following schools:
New York Edmeston Central School, Edmeston Theodore Roosevelt
Elementary School, Binghamton Children's School #15, Rochester
(4/17) Walt Disney Elementary School, Gates (4/29) Union East
Elementary School, Cheektowaga Pembroke Primary School, Pembroke
Beekman Elementary School, Poughquag Pennsylvania Samuel B. Huey
School, Philadelphia Theodore Roosevelt Middle School, Philadelphia
West Beaver Elementary, McClure Everett Elementary, Altoona
Ringtown Elementary, Ringtown Liberty Elementary, Liberty Camp
Curtin Elementary, Harrisburg North East Bradford School, Rome Our
Lady of the Angels, Columbia Pequea Elementary School, Willow
Street Taylor Elementary School, Columbia Harry S. Truman
Elementary, Allentown Loucks Elementary, York Eshelman Elementary,
Millersville Maytown Elementary, Maytown Clearview Elementary,
Hanover Cornwall Terrace, Sinking Springs Hayshire Elementary, York
Ross Elementary, Lancaster St. John the Baptist, Altoona Choconut
Valley Elementary, Friendsville Edgar Moore Elementary, Red Lion
East Freedom Elementary, East Freedom Wrightsville Elementary,
Wrightsville Spring Grove Elementary, Spring Grove New Salem
Elementary, York Paradise Elementary, Thomasville Corpus Christi
School, Chambersburg Maryland Langston Hughes Elementary, Baltimore
Lansdowne Elementary, Baltimore County (4/29) Annapolis High
School, Annapolis (4/30) Clear Spring Middle School, Clear Spring
Accident Elementary School, Accident Yough Glades, Oakland Hancock
Elementary, Hancock The bank offers the following tips to help
parents promote good saving habits: -- It is never too early to
start teaching children to value money managing skills. -- Getting
a young child a piggy bank is a good start. -- Look for lessons
that are inherent in grocery shopping. -- Saving on energy, by
turning off lights, equals financial savings as well. -- Teach the
importance of balancing a checkbook to keep track of spending. The
ABA Education Foundation's National Teach Children to Save Day is
held every April, giving bankers an opportunity to address the
importance of saving with children across the country. M&T Bank
serves customers in more than 680 branches in New York,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, West
Virginia and Washington, D.C. For Further Information: Jean Hill
(716) 842-4606 DATASOURCE: M&T Bank CONTACT: Jean Hill of
M&T Bank, +1-716-842-4606
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