We are a quarter of the way through 2025 and some may have set financial goals or resolutions for the new year to be accomplished. How are you doing with those resolutions? Are your finances in good shape? Do we need a new approach on reaching our financial goals? Or are we well on our way to better personal finance?
From April 15th to 21st, we celebrate Money Smart Week here at Central Library. The American Library Association and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago created this initiative to focus on financial literacy programming to ensure community members are making the fiscally responsible choices for better financial health. This includes budgeting, investing, debt management, retirement planning, couponing, and much more.
Join us at Central on the 1st floor for the Money Smart kickoff, we will have a table for the Money Smart passport, raffle, and books to help you along the way. The raffle will take place throughout Money Smart Week, so sign up for a chance to win a prize. Then on Friday, April 18 at 4pm, we will be in meeting room 2E to discuss S.M.A.R.T money goals to help you fulfill some of those financial resolutions.
Hope to see you here at Central for Money Smart Week.
Source
"Money Smart Week", American Library Association, September 18, 2012
https://www.ala.org/aboutala/offices/money-smart-week (Accessed March 26, 2025)
Blog post written by Breanna Simpson
Events and booklist by Anissa Alexander and Breanna Simpson
Upcoming Events
Money Smart Week Kickoff - Learn more here!
Setting S.M.A.R.T. Goals - Register here!
These books are intended to give a primer on all things finance. There are books on the general concepts of economics, debt repayment and investment. There is practical information about building a budget and budgeting for the inevitable, like retirement and emergencies.
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