NYSE Euronext today crowned its Financial Literacy Week activities by announcing that for the first time, a limited number of scholarships will be available to help deserving teachers from under-resourced schools attend one of the 2011 Teachers’ Workshop programs this summer at the New York Stock Exchange.
The scholarships will cover expenses for eligible teachers to participate in the week-long, professional-development programs. For more than two decades, the Teachers’ Workshops have increased educators’ ability to teach students about the financial marketplace and its role in their lives and the global economy.
“The addition of these scholarships will ensure that our program is open and inclusive for all teachers regardless of their financial means,” says Michelle Greene, Vice President and Head of Corporate Responsibility at NYSE Euronext. “Advancing financial capability is a key priority for NYSE Euronext’s corporate-responsibility program, and establishing scholarships builds on our growing array of financial-capability initiatives.”
Those initiatives have been highlighted this week, as NYSE Euronext launched a useful new tool to help companies improve the financial capabilities of their employees, and introduced a new Corporate Financial Leadership Council to better coordinate the many excellent efforts of companies working on financial empowerment issues. In addition, the week featured a live, interactive educational webcast from the NYSE trading floor to more than 1,000 classrooms, plus special bell ringings with financial-empowerment organizations.