Financial Resilience, Hip Hop Pedagogy
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Excited for our team members Pam and Dyalekt to be featured in 60 Second Docs!!! #TeachChange
21 Feb 2019
What I learned in hip-hop school was.... #WealthToMe
For more wealth: bit.ly/60SDWealth @blackrock @PocketsChange @pamelacapalad @DyalektRaps #sponsored
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Pockets Change is Changing How #FinEd is Taught retweeted
5 Apr 2023
On April 27, @PocketsChange will be hosting “Hip Hop FinFe$t,” a virtual concert that uses music and song to bring communities together to change the “common sense” around money. Click the link below to learn more! hiphopfinfest.com/
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Pockets Change is Changing How #FinEd is Taught retweeted
5 Apr 2023
Curious to know what your money personality is? @PocketsChange has a quiz that will tell you all about this! Click the link below to take it. pocketschange.com/quiz
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Pockets Change is Changing How #FinEd is Taught retweeted
5 Apr 2023
Big ups to Knology for the rundown and shoutout. We’re getting the data that matters! Or the data… in beta? We’ll figure it out later
5 Apr 2023
In recognition of Financial Capability Month, we wanted to share some of the great work that our partners at @PocketsChange are doing to advance financial education and build community financial resilience.
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Pockets Change is Changing How #FinEd is Taught retweeted
21 Feb 2023
There's still time to get students ages 12-18 involved. Register today at hiphopfinfest.com. New deadline for submissions is March 24th, 2023.
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7 Feb 2023
We got a $1k grand prize, a pocket studio full of a/v equipment from @Sony for finalists & more for high school & jr high students that write and record a song about personal finance. Get knowledge, rules and beats at hiphopfinfest.com
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Thank you @CaliforniaDFPI! Pockets Change is incredibly excited to work together in building financial resilience across our communities. With CalMoney Smart’s support, we are providing immersive Hip Hop & Finance programming for students, families, and educators.
We're pleased to announce the award of nearly $2 mil in CalMoneySmart grants to nonprofit orgs throughout #California. Funding helps create financial coaching programs, education curricula, and other services to expand access for unbanked households.
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A10: Join us for Hip Hop FinFest vol.2 Student song competition and live streaming concert to unpack money myths and find ways to make change. @PocketsChange Learn more: hiphopfinfest.com #CreditChat
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A8: Embrace your inner kindergartner and ask, "Why?" Get curious about your relationship with money, the financial systems impacting your life, and what changes you want to see in your life and community. #CreditChat
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Find us in the Jump$tart Clearinghouse! (jumpstartclearinghouse.org/p…) There is an amazing ecosystem of financial education organizations innovating right now to move the field forward. @NatlJumpStart #CreditChat
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A5: Money is emotional and resources are limited. In classrooms, our educators and students are actively innovating out of necessity. We embrace collaboration to make change happen. We never want money to be the reason we’re not talking and teaching about money. #CreditChat
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A4: We envision a world where financial education is as prevalent as reading programs and our shared money stories shift narratives that have held back our communities for generations. #StudentVoices Why Talk About Money Word Cloud #CreditChat
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A3: By starting money conversations, where we break down barriers and let each other know that money is a tool and a process—you’re not wrong, you’re not bad at money, and you’re not alone. Our programs are community cyphers where everyone is a learner and a leader. #CreditChat
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Our ED Andrea was a guest last week on this super podcast talking with @MannyFaces about how hip-hop can uplift humanity & educate on financial resilience. They got into Andrea's history founding PC after growing up & teaching on the rez, and more.
hiphopadvocacy.org/hip-hop-f…
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Our ED Andrea is thrilled to support #girlsinSTEM education as a virtual speaker at this year's Girls Academic Leadership Academy's 4th annual Young Women's Career Conference in honor of #InternationalWomensDay ! Details here fogala.org/ywcc Thank you @galacademy !
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16 Oct 2021
@PocketsChange weighs in on how college students can take charge of their money. "Buy-in to money conversations and ask questions about the details. Too many of us leave school uncertain about loan terms..." moneyrates.com/research-cent… #TheMoreYouKnow #FinancialLiteracy
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🚨ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 We are so excited to be partnering w/ Perch Credit for BACK TO SCHOOL, BACK TO CREDIT on September 8.
Together, Pockets Change & Perch Credit are making connections between financial wellness and financial access, AND YOU CAN TOO.
#Making Change #Clubhouse
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4 Aug 2021
Show notes from ep. 146 of the podcast are now out, featuring #TeacherOnFire Andrea Ferrero from @PocketsChange. Check out the highlights from our conversation at teachersonfire.net/2021/08/0…. 🔥
Topics in this conversation included: #entrepreneurship #equity #financialliteracy
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