Your Money, Your Future Offered Online

Submitted by mmaher on Wed, 02/06/2013 - 10:25
Your Money Your Future Program

Achieving financial goals is not just a matter of money. “It’s about an internal desire to improve one’s finances,” says Mary Beth Kaufman, ISU Extension Family Finance Specialist. “There is a connection between what you do today and what will happen in the future.”

Your Money Your Future is an Online class that is offered the first Monday of each month by Iowa State University Extension and Outreach.    Each session is recorded for review. Participants need high speed internet and speakers or headphone to hear the instructor. A microphone or chat box is used to participate.  Certificates of Completion are available upon request.

Your Money Your Future will cover

  • Develop Spending plans and SMART goals
  • Access your credit history without having to pay a fee
  • Understand how credit cards work and how to avoid the credit card trap
  • Learn strategies to improve your credit score.

Family Finance Program Specialist

For a registration brochure contact the Fremont County Extension office at 610 Clay St., Sidney, Iowa.  Brochures, including the registration form, are also available at Fremont County banks.  After you register, you will receive via e-mail a web address with class materials to be printed along with instructions on how to log in.  For more information contact course instructors: Brenda Schmitt at 641-512-0650 or Schmitt@iastate.edu or Joyce Lash at 641-464-5003 or lash@iastate.edu.  You may also contact: Mary Beth Kaufman, Family Finance Program Specialist, at mbkaufma@iastate.edu; Phone: 712-755-3104.

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