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Living
Better, Spending Smarter
with help from your Library
By Rhonda B. Sewell, Library Media Relations Coordinator
The Truth Contributor
The Toledo-Lucas County Public Library is proud to be the
recipient of a nearly $82,000 grant aimed to increase the
system’s service to the community by spreading personal
financial and investing information, and increasing public
knowledge of the resources of our partners at United Way of
Greater Toledo and the Financial Opportunity Centers of
Toledo.
The Smart investing @your Library® grant
was awarded by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)
Investor Education Foundation, in partnership with the
American Library Association.
This grant offers the Library an opportunity to work with
great community partners to train staff, buy materials and
give great programming on a topic of real need – financial
education, but to do it in a fun manner with broad outreach,
said Linda Koss, Library Grants Specialist.
How will grant programming be delivered? Over the course of
the next two years, funding will cover programs built around
Money Smart Week this year and in 2015, and American Saves
Week in 2015 and 2016. Programming will include issues
pertaining to credit, investment training, Social Security
and even couponing. In addition, the Library’s Main, Mott,
Heatherdowns, Reynolds Corner and Locke locations have been
selected by United Way to host a five-part Financial Fitness
101 series four times over the next two years.
Join the Library for its Money Smart Week, scheduled
this April 5-12, and learn
how to shop, spend less, invest and retire in better
financial shape. Light refreshments will be provided and
door prizes will be given at each event. Visit
toledolibrary.org for dates, locations
and details.
This special week will kick-off with a program titled “Power
Couponing with LaTisha Williams (The Frugalicious Diva), a
local coupon expert who will present the fundamentals of
extreme couponing including terms, couponing rules, tips and
tricks from 6:30-7:30 p.m. on
Monday, April 7 at Lagrange Branch Library 3422
Lagrange St. This program will be repeated at Locke and
Sanger branch locations later in the week. There will be a
host of additional Money Smart Week topics throughout the
system from What’s the Deal with Free Credit Reports? to
Social Security: Retirement Strategies and What You Really
Need to Know, and much more! Please visit
toledolibrary.org for complete details, or call
419.259.5200. |
