ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT
Dollars & $ense
Financial Literacy Program
Dollars & $ense is a national program of the 100 Black Men of America and is provided locally by the 100 Black Men of Metropolitan St. Louis.
High School grades 9th -12th students (male/female) participate in coursework covering various topics of financial literacy. The objective of the Dollars & Sense Financial Literacy Program is to introduce high school students to the field of finance through a financial literacy education program. Another objective is to encourage the students to pursue higher education at a college or university.
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The program is designed to introduce students to topics that are challenging, yet reachable. Committed students will be rewarded for their effort, become knowledgeable in personal finance and investments, and develop a desire to pursue these topics in a higher educational environment.
Students receive scholarship amounts based upon their local competition scores, quiz scores, the level of classroom participation, student attendance, available funds and the number of participating students.
Three students will be selected each year to represent the St. Louis chapter in the 100 Black Men of America’s National Financial Literacy Competition.
ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT
The 100 Black Men of America, Inc. considers economic empowerment necessary for creating just societies around the world.
100 Black Men of America, Inc. promotes and fosters the ability of its mentees and members to be self-determined in creating dreams, pursuing them, and ultimately perpetuating those dreams and aspirations by establishing the mechanisms to sustain generational wealth. Through comprehensive curricula and training opportunities, our organization works diligently to promote economic self-sufficiency and break the cycle of generational debt. It is the goal of the 100 to leave a legacy of wealth-building, which leads to debt-free living for the youth and communities we serve. Our economic empowerment programs and initiatives foster financial literacy, career development, financial planning, investment management, and fiscal responsibility at an early age. Exposing our youth and collegiate students to the skills, strategies, and mindset of entrepreneurship also provide beneficial, transferable knowledge that will help to establish a firm foundation from which they can later build upon for business development and wealth creation.
The 100 Black Men of Metropolitan St. Louis consider economic empowerment as a necessary step toward creating a just society. The Organization defines economic empowerment as the ability to be self-determined in creating dreams, pursuing them and ultimately perpetuating them by establishing the mechanisms to sustain generational wealth. The program initiatives promote economic self–sufficiency through financial literacy, family wealth building and entrepreneurship.