Fifth Third Bank and Ramsey Solutions Celebrate Education of One Million Students In the Ways of Personal Finance
October 27 2016 - 9:16AM
Business Wire
Fifth Third Bank and Dave Ramsey’s Ramsey Solutions today
announced that they will educate more than one million students by
the end of this school year. Fifth Third, a committed leader in the
delivery of financial education in the communities it serves, has
been sponsoring Foundations in Personal Finance since 2010 and
enabling the Ramsey team to offer the curriculum at no charge to
the schools or the students themselves.
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Fifth Third Bank's sponsorship of Dave
Ramsey's Foundations in Personal Finance course in high schools has
educated one million students. (Photo: Business Wire)
Fifth Third Bank President & CEO Greg D. Carmichael, said,
“Reaching more than one million students is such an exciting and
significant milestone for our two companies. We are incredibly
appreciative of Dave Ramsey and Ramsey Solutions for collaborating
with us over the past six years to deliver Dave’s renowned and
highly effective Foundations in Personal Finance curriculum to high
school students within our footprint. One million is a huge number
and we’re especially proud that behind that figure are one million
individual lives that we’ve tried to help and improve through
financial education.”
Fifth Third has invested millions of dollars to sponsor Dave’s
curriculum over the past six years. The program began in pilot in
2010 and grew to include 2,700 schools throughout the Bank’s
10-state footprint. This month, Fifth Third and Ramsey Solutions
have identified students throughout the market to tell their
stories as “one of the million” educated through this unique
collaboration.
“Our friends at Fifth Third Bank are doing amazing things in the
communities they serve, including providing more than one million
students with our curriculum, Foundations in Personal Finance,”
said Dave Ramsey, personal finance expert and CEO of Ramsey
Solutions. “Because of the generosity of sponsors like Fifth Third
Bank teens across America are learning how to win with money.”
Foundations in Personal Finance is a complete, turnkey
curriculum designed to fully equip schools with everything they
need for a dynamic classroom experience. It includes complete
lesson plans, teaching delivered via video by Dave Ramsey and his
team of experts, blended learning, and a TestGen® computerized test
bank. In addition, more than one hundred activities are included
which focus on providing 21st century personal finance knowledge
and skills in a student-centered, competency-based approach to
learning
Fifth Third Bank is committed to improving lives in the
communities it serves. Since 2010, it has delivered its L.I.F.E.
(Lives Improved through Financial Empowerment®) programs to
individuals at every age and stage of life as a way to empower
community members through quality financial education. More
information is available is www.53.com/life.
Fifth Third Bancorp is a diversified financial services company
headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. As of September 30, 2016, the
Company had $143 billion in assets and operates 1,191 full-service
Banking Centers, including 94 Bank Mart® locations, most open seven
days a week, inside select grocery stores and 2,497 ATMs in Ohio,
Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Florida, Tennessee, West
Virginia, Georgia and North Carolina. Fifth Third operates four
main businesses: Commercial Banking, Branch Banking, Consumer
Lending, and Wealth & Asset Management. Fifth Third also has an
18.3% interest in Vantiv Holding, LLC. Fifth Third is among the
largest money managers in the Midwest and, as of September 30,
2016, had $314 billion in assets under care, of which it managed
$27 billion for individuals, corporations and not-for-profit
organizations. Investor information and press
releases can be viewed at www.53.com. Fifth Third’s
common stock is traded on the NASDAQ® Global Select Market under
the symbol “FITB.” Fifth Third Bank was established in 1858. Member
FDIC, Equal Housing Lender.
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