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WESTconsin wins awards for financial education
13 Dec 2023
News, Barron County
WESTconsin Credit Union is honored to be recognized for its financial education efforts through the Alphonse Desjardins Awards from the Credit Union National Association (CUNA). WESTconsin won 1st place in the Youth Financial Education and 2nd place in the Adult Financial Education award categories for credit unions with $1B+ in assets in the state of Wisconsin.
The Youth Financial Education Award was given to WESTconsin for its use of Banzai, an interactive financial education resource that uses online courses to teach basic and advanced financial concepts.
In partnership with Banzai, WESTconsin has served over 600 teachers and educated over 55,000 students in 208 schools across 18 counties in Wisconsin and Minnesota. In the 2022-2023 school year alone, students spent over 10,000 hours in the program engaging in and learning financial concepts and life skills that often are not taught in the traditional classroom setting.
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