FINANCIAL LITERACY COMMITTEE - Year 2012

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Link to Job Description and Committee Member Benefits

Director:
Jeremy Schmidt

Vice Director:
Sophia Bera

Committee Members:
John Comer; Christine Damico; Mike Erpenbach; Karen Gemmill; Jason Plank, Jeanna Sabers, and Hilary Van de Streek

Fostering Trust:
Frequent and scheduled communication within the committee will allow each committee member to accept and accomplish specific tasks that they have agreed to accomplish. Committee chair will also accomplish and report on specific tasks agreed to and accomplished.  Vice director is identified for the committee and prepared to transition into new leadership.

External to the committee, we will communicate frequently with other FPA-MN committees and look for opportunities for the Financial Literacy Committee to work with and fulfill its mission through cooperation with other committees.  We will also establish lines of communication with outside organizations that can help FPA Financial Literacy Committee fulfill its mission.

Creating the Shared Vision:
We will identify opportunities for members to help build a financially literate community.  We will identify opportunities for FPA to assist members in achieving professional and personal fulfillment.  We will also work with other committees to increase awareness of the FPA within the community, especially that segment of the community that our members seek to serve.

Developing Strategies:
We will achieve these goals by building a cadre of members who wish to volunteer and members who wish to be included in a speaker’s bureau.  These volunteers and speakers will be utilized by complementary organizations that foster financial literacy within specific population segments.  These organizations will include local not-for-profit organizations, schools, employers, community organizations and professional organizations.

Energizing Your Alliances:
Internal allies are, of course, committee as well as board and FPA members. External allies are the not-for-profit organizations and community organizations that need volunteers and speakers on financial literacy.  We continue to build relationships with BestPrep, Junior Achievement and the Minnesota Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy.  We will foster relationships with community libraries and higher education.  Future alliances may be built with the Minnesota Department of Commerce, Financially Fit Minnesota, Twin Cities Public Television, other non-profit organizations and other professional organizations as capacity allows & opportunities arise.

Activating Transformations:
Each committee member will be responsible for specific duties for the committee.  We will need people contacting the members to get volunteers, we will need people building relationships in the community to sign up organizations and we will need a method of evaluating speakers who speak on behalf of the FPA.  These duties will be assigned based on the skills and interest of the committee members. We will find volunteers, committee members and community resources by effectively communicating the benefits of this work to the volunteers and the community.

Achieving and Measuring Results:
We will measure our results by the number of volunteers and speakers in our database, by the number of placements of volunteers and speakers, by the number of organizations in our database and by the relationships we are developing in the community.