April is Financial Literacy Month - Gift of Personal Finance Knowledge Let's Share it!!! Is your financial house in order? Greetings and Happy Springtime,  Hope all is going well for you and that you are staying safe and healthy and are having a nice start to your springtime. As you probably know…  There are 10,000 Americans daily reaching age 65 with many on track to run out of money before their life expectancy, many families are burdened with large amounts of student loans or other forms of growing debt, and more than half of our adults (120 million US) do not have nor understand why they need an up-to-date financial, estate and gift plan to protect themselves and their families. We hope you nor your family, associates, employees or clients are not a part of this demographic. So how do we help solve or prevent this problem?  To help address the lack of financial awareness along with the financial illiteracy epidemic over a decade ago we began taking an active leadership role to recognize organizations and their management, and individuals that are championing improving financial awareness and financial literacy. We are then uniting them with other associations, organizations, nonprofits, educational institutions, municipalities, employers, and news media to actively focus their vast community resources into The Improving Financial Awareness & Financial Literacy Movement with its semi-annual concentrated personal finance content media blitz around the strategic campaign venues celebrating • April as Financial Literacy Month and six months later with • October as Estate & Gift Planning Awareness Month (We worked with Congressman Thompson’s Office during 2007 and 2008 to help create an Estate Planning Awareness proclamation that was co-authored by 50 bi-partisan Congresswomen & Congressmen; we have helped advance and promote it since.)  The plan is to touch everyone at least twice a year through these strategic campaign venues, with educational and motivating content, reminders, and tools for making wise informed lifelong financial decisions and to get and keep your financial house in order by having a current financial, estate and gift plans.

Join the Movement and share with family and friends Supporting Improving Financial Awareness & Financial Literacy Is A Winning Opportunity For All 

The Improving Financial Awareness & Financial Literacy Report and Magazine provides a sampling of the community participation, including supporting proclamations from over 20 US State Governors, leading financial service, planned giving, and nonprofit associations and their professionals, and academia and news media efforts along with a comprehensive collection of reports including how financially literate each state and country is, and so much more. We believe that EVERYONE needs to be financially aware and financially literate and empowered to make better everyday money decisions. If not how are they are going to have any chance of living out a quality life, reach and maintain their personal and family financial dreams, and live out a debt-free and secure financial future? Without this empowerment, many many people become a burden on family and friends, employers, local nonprofits, and the ultimate safety-net the local and federal government. In the spirit of helping to improve financial awareness and financial literacy and as October is Estate & Gift Planning Awareness Month below are some materials you might find helpful and that you are welcome to share with your family, colleagues, and employees.

The Gift of Personal Finance Knowledge - for you

Some Questions to Ponder – Check out your financial awareness & financial literacy Check out your financial literacy. Share this with your family and friends. It’s a GREAT tool to use with you family and friends, and an OUTSTANDING practice builder for CPAs, nonprofits and financial service professionals.

TFAF-12 Month Financial Fitness Plan Personal finance doesn’t have to be daunting or overwhelming; try the TFAF-12 Month Financial Fitness Plan.

TFAF- Problem Solving Gift    This defines The VERY BIG PROBLEM and offers a realistic solution.

Organization & Planning are YOUR KEYS to Financial Success    Managing personal finances today is more complicated and more important than ever. We’re living longer, but saving proportionately less. Scores of us feel less secure in our jobs and homes than we did in the past. We see our money being drained by the high cost of housing, taxes, education, health care.

It's time to protect your family & your future Over 50% of our adult population (120 million adults) does NOT nor realize the importance of not having a current or up-to-date estate plan to protect themselves and their family's assets; that can include half your family, friends, and associates.

Let financial planning make your difference Unless you are lucky enough to win the lottery or receive a substantial inheritance, very few people can really attain and maintain financial security without forethought and a strategy—a financial plan.

Exposing kids to personal finances    It’s very important for us parents, to introduce and expose our children to sound principles of personal money management. With our media enriched environment, we’re constantly exposed to thousands of marketing suggestions on how to spend money, whether we have it or not.

Charitable gifts come in many forms When you decide the time is right to make a charitable gift(s) to your favorite nonprofit organization or cause(s), don't assume that just writing a check is the only option. You have a wide variety of techniques and assets to use to fund charitable gifts, including the following strategies.

TFAF-Cost-Cutting Money-Making Game    Personal cash-flow management and managing your spending habits are key areas of personal financial management, and are concerns for many families. With fantastic new products arriving in the market daily, managing available cash becomes quite a challenge.

Current Edition of - TFAF Personal Finance Publication Set (3 Books & a Forms Set) EVERYONE needs to be financially literate and empowered to make better everyday money decisions. If not how are they are going to have any chance of living out a quality life, reach and maintain their personal and family financial dreams, and live out a debt free and secure financial future? Without this empowerment, many many people become a burden on family and friends, employers, local nonprofits and the ultimate safety net the local and federal government. You can visit this link to receive your FREE copy of the TFAF Personal Finance Publication Set – which includes smart money secrets and the essential principles to smart money management – the foundation to personal finance knowledge. These are very special empowerment tools, not a Do-It-Yourself-Kit, it is a powerful tool to empower people to make better informed lifelong money decisions and to use and to work with financial professionals & product providers to get the best results from time & money. If you are a financial service professional this is also a great tool to use with your clients.

NOW is the TIME for some CREATIVE & CRITICAL THINKING & PROBLEM-SOLVING We believe that NOW is the TIME for some CREATIVE & CRITICAL THINKING for you and your family – for dealing with the Medical Crisis and emerging Economic / Financial Crisis!!! from a personal, business, local, national, and global perspective.   We believe having better personal finance knowledge changes your world and the world around you… FOREVER!

Serving as a TFAF Ambassador, Strategic Partner, or Volunteer Overview & Application Serving as an Ambassador, Strategic Partner or Volunteer of The Financial Awareness Foundation can be a fun and valuable use of your time and skills and a very rewarding experience. As a community leader, you can play a VERY IMPORTANT and strategic role in improving financial awareness and financial literacy, while creating goodwill and new opportunities for you and many local and national nonprofits. This can be done by actively supporting and participating within The Improving Financial Awareness & Financial Literacy Movement built around the concentrated personal finance content media blitz built around the strategic campaign venues of Financial Literacy Month (April) and Estate & Gift Planning Awareness Month (October), and other activities throughout the year

Organizations and individuals are never required to financially support The Financial Awareness Foundation in any way. They do not pay any marketing or membership fee or make a contribution in order to participate in the important improving financial awareness and financial literacy movement, campaigns, and programs. And we develop and distribute high-quality materials at ‘NO Cost’. But as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, financial support and contributions are always welcomed and very much appreciated."

Stay safe and healthy – there’s lots of work to do and fun to be had!!!!!  Wishing you and your families much success and all the very best,  Valentino Sabuco, Executive Director The Financial Awareness Foundation A 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Dedicated to Significantly “Improving financial awareness & financial literacy…” www.thefinancialawarenessfundation.org We believe having financial knowledge can change your world and the world around you... FOREVER!