Economic Literacy

Through Girls Inc. Economic Literacy, girls learn about money and the economy, including how to manage, invest, and save money and how to help others through philanthropy. As girls explore how the economy affects everyone locally and globally, they develop skills critical to being financially savvy and becoming economically independent adults. 

The below core modules give girls a foundation for economically independent adulthood and an understanding of key economic concepts at the individual, family, community, national, and global levels and of the impact that girls can have.

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Program Modules

She’s on the Money (ages 6-8)
This program uses games, role-playing, art projects, and field trips to build girls’ skills for identifying and counting money and to increase their understanding of basic concepts and topics such as using banks, saving for the future, planning for a career, differentiating between wants and needs, donating and volunteering, taxes, and government services.
Dollars, Sense, and Me (ages 9-11)
This program further enhances girls’ understanding of economic and financial concepts and introduces additional topics and skills, including exchanging goods and services, investing in the stock market, entrepreneurship, budgeting, and labour and management.
Equal Earners, Savvy Spenders (ages 12-14)
This program deepens girls’ knowledge about, appreciation for, and skills around the economy, earning, spending, giving, saving, and investing. Additional topics include loan options, risk versus return on investments, credit card use, labour laws, economic equity for women and girls, work-life balance, and global economics.
Futures and Options (ages 15-18)
This program prepares girls for entering the world of work by helping them examine topics such as attitudes and values about money, career strategies, economic justice and workers’ rights, paycheque deductions, responsible use of credit and avoiding predatory lenders, renting versus buying, and investing.