KSU student groups, Chase Bank offer financial-literacy program

Staff report

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Inspiring Minds, Kent State at Trumbull’s Enactus Group, and managers from local Chase Banks have teamed up to offer high- school and college students the opportunity to prepare for the future with the Inspiring Minds Financial Literacy Program.

The program teaches the importance of budgeting, balancing and saving money.

Last month, students from Kent State at Trumbull’s Enactus Group, a student organization consisting of student leaders committed to applying business concepts to develop community-outreach projects, worked directly with students from Inspiring Minds in six workshops that focused on spending and saving, opening and balancing checking and savings accounts, writing checks, depositing money, and creating and living within a budget.

The program offered realistic, first-hand experience in managing personal finances to build strong decision-making skills and prepare students for the future.

Program students are preparing for the final project presentation, planned for 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday in Room 223, second floor of the Classroom Administration Building at Kent State University at Trumbull, 4314 Mahoning Ave. NW.

During the presentations, Inspiring Minds students will present their final projects as financial advisers to families in front of Kent State professors, Kent State Enactus members and Chase Bank managers.