CUNA has created the Desjardins Adult Financial Education Award, which will recognize model credit union efforts to teach personal finance concepts and skills to members and nonmembers age 18 and older. The adult award will complement the well-established Desjardins Youth Financial Education Award.

As in previous years, the Desjardins Youth Financial Education Award recognizes leadership on behalf of youth financial literacy. It considers all activities supporting the personal finance education of young (18 and under) members and nonmembers including, but not limited to, face-to-face teaching, publicity, lobbying for curriculum requirements, teacher and volunteer training, and promotion and use of the NEFE High School Financial Planning Program® (HSFPP) (involvement in the NEFE program is not required for entries). Credit union chapters (or groups) and individual credit unions are eligible to enter.

Naming the new award after Alphonse Desjardins emphasizes the movement's long-time commitment to youth. Besides founding the first credit unions in Canada and the U.S., Desjardins pioneered youth savings clubs and in-school "banks," known as caisses scolaires.

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