Wesley Learns Book Club is the only literacy program driven to incentivize children in becoming first-time shareholders of stocks
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Waynesboro GA, Global Children’s Financial Literacy Foundation (GCFL) Co-Founders and Navy veterans, Prince Dykes and Chadrick Davis, launch a kid’s book club that awards $30,000 worth of stocks and books. GCFL Co-founders newest initiative drive focusing on the emergence of practical financial habits beginning in the earlier childhood stage. Based on a children’s financial literacy book series Wesley Learns, inspired by Prince Dykes to teach his son Wesley; the book club program emboldens kids to read financial books that will help develop and strengthen their investment acumen. It requires participants to read three (3) books: Wesley Learns about Credit, Wesley Learns to Invest, and Wesley Learns about Insurance. Upon completion of the program, participants are awarded the opportunity to receive stock options.
Ridgewood NJ, Research suggests that financial literacy has been on the decline in recent years*.
In a test of financial knowledge among young Americans, only around one third can answer even four or five basic financial literacy questions correctly.
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