A lack of financial literacy is a problem that has profound impact on an individual’s long term wellbeing and access to it is characterized by racial and gender disparities. To address these issues, organizations such as the Women’s Initiative of the United Way have sought to bring financial literacy training to under-served groups. The Women’s Initiative’s Dollar Scholar program teaches financial literacy skills to 10-14 year old girls through in person and virtual mediums. The goal of this project is to analyze the engagement of their online curriculum and to create recommendations in order to improve the efficacy of the Dollar Scholar program, in order to help the Women's Initiative achieve its goal of reducing domestic violence among young girls through financial literacy.

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Creator

• Scott, Ian
• Kola, Megi
• Ferro, Dominic R.

Subject

• Community
• Learning
• Innovation

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-051221-151704
• 24086

Keyword

• Virtual Learning
• Financial Literacy
• Online Education

Advisor

• Smith, Gillian Margaret
• Dehner, Corey

Year

• 2021

Center

• Worcester Community Project Center (Massachusetts) - IQP

Sponsor

• Womens Initiative of the United Way of Central Massachusetts

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 4 - Quality Education
• 5 - Gender Equality

Date created

• 2021-05-12

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2021-08-29