Brownsville

July 5, 2007—NCUA has added a “financial education library” section to the financial education page of its Web site, offering access to five printable brochures on identity theft, credit reporting and the owning and use of credit cards.

The new section was announced Tuesday by NCUA Chairman JoAnn Johnson, a member of the Treasury-led Financial Literacy and Education Commission and head of the commission’s Web site committee for MyMoney.gov.

The five brochures on NCUA’s page were created by Tower FCU (Laurel, Md.) and adapted for the agency’s Web site. Johnson commended the credit union for its work in financial education and said that online tools, including NCUA’s and those available at MyMoney.gov, “are fine examples of the positive and far-reaching impact technology has in empowering credit union members with the important tools of financial education.”

In addition to the financial education brochures, NCUA’s financial education Web page includes links to materials explaining federal share insurance, other sources of financial information for consumers and information about the financial literacy commission.

The financial literacy commission’s consumer site was recently updated to provide 10 online calculators to help consumers perform a variety of operations, such as planning a college budget and student loans, home buying, mortgage comparisons, investing, figuring Social Security earnings and estimating tax withholding.

NAFCU also makes a number of financial education tools available on this Web site, including a financial education curriculum for credit unions (linked below) adapted from the FDIC Money Smart program.

I recently hosted A DAY FOR KIDS Which was for the benefit of children all around to get their tapes from Kindervision where the founder Doug Sebastian came from Florida to assist in interviewing, and I-Dent-A-Kid did the finger printing and pictures, and we did DNA kits for the kids, as well as bike safety where we donated helmets, a bike rodeo to learn safety, fire safety, abduction precaution safety, amber alert information, center for missing and exploited children, and we also had carnival fun, all free to the public. All radio and television stations were here and had additions to the fun. We did not reach our goal for 3,000 dollars so we are working to get more money to give to the kids needing hospital care, and no child is turned away because of an inability to pay.

If you, any of your associates, businesses, or other avenues might be able to help us reach our goal, please let me know. Checks would be made out to the

Children’s Miracle Network which is our credit unions and most all other credit union’s charity of choice.