Young Investors Network has earned the 2022 America Saves Savings Champion award, an honor explicitly reserved for organizations, nonprofits, and government
agencies that achieved remarkable impact during the annual America Saves Week campaign.
Young Investors Network is one of only thirty-five recipients honored with this distinction out of nearly 3100 participating organizations of America Saves Week, which took place February 21st – 25th, 2022.
The recipients’ work contributed to an impressive collective impact of America Saves Week. During the one-week timeframe, these organizations helped to encourage nearly 415,000 individuals to deposit $1,134,122,355.00 into new and existing savings accounts and establish automatic savings. “Currently, Americans are burdened with many economic challenges like inflation and rising home costs, all while still attempting to rebound from the effects of the ongoing pandemic. There’s a
fundamental need for companies, agencies, employers, and organizations to step up and take action to support the people they serve in extraordinary and unique ways, helping everyday
Americans build financial resilience. These organizations have answered that call,” said Kia McCallister-Young, Director of America Saves. “Our Savings Champions went above and beyond to amplify a positive, shame-free approach to saving that truly meets people where they are on their individual savings journey.” “The strategies, resources, and messages shared during America Saves Week — like saving automatically, for emergencies, and short-term and long-term financial goals — contribute to the overall financial confidence of Americans and gives them a trusted starting place to jumpstart or restart their saving goals,” continued McCallister-Young. Mr. Joshua Mensah, the Founder of Young Investors Network said the Young Investors Network
has worked over the years to both educate young people on financial literacy and also give them the opportunity.
“We started the Save A Cedi A Day Challenge to encourage Ghanaians, especially pupils and students to save while they are receiving money from their parents.
We will continue to push this agenda because it has shown so many results over the years and promises to cushion young people financially in the future,” Mr Mensah. Mr Mensah noted that the Young Investors Network has so far impacted more than 100,000 young people across the country and we would like to commend all our partners and sponsors who contributed to achieving this international recognition. We commend UMB Investment Holdings,
the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE), and the Securities and Exchange Commission for the partnership opportunities given us over the years. Mr Kofi Busia Kyei, the Executive Director of the Young Investors Network said this honour by the American Saves has given us more hope that at least someone is watching and appreciating what we do and this recognition motivates us to do more for Ghana and the world at large.
“All we need at the moment is to get more sponsors to enable us to carry out more financial literacy campaigns in schools across the country and gradually help many young people to understand finances and take action towards securing their future financially,” Mr Kyei said.
We have some programmes that are generating a lot of interest among pupils and students like the Capital Market Quiz competition (to help young people to understand the capital market) for the Junior and Senior High Schools and the Stock Pitch Competition for the Tertiary (to help the youth understand how to trade on the Ghana Stock Exchange).
2022 America Saves Savings Champion Recipients:
- A New Leaf
- Change Inc and West Virginia Saves
- Chic Wealth Society
- Connecticut Saves and UConn Extension
- Credit.org, Inland Empire Saves & San Diego Saves
- Designer Brands Inc.
- Economic Awareness Council and Illinois Saves
- Fairway Independent Mortgage
- FDIC
- G.I. Jobs and Career
- Gwen’s Green Thumb
- Heffernan Financial Services
- Kroger Co.
- Los Angeles Saves and Alliance for Economic Inclusion
- Masterpiece Financial Coaching
- Mississippi Saves and
- Mississippi State Univ. Extension
- New Jersey Coalition for Financial Education (NJCFE) and NJ Saves
- Nipro PharmaPackaging Americas Corp
- Notartie, Inc.
- Office of Financial Empowerment and Educatio
- Ohio State University and Ohio State University Extension
- Okaloosa Saves and Eglin Federal Credit Union
- Point Loma
- Nazarene University
- Prince George’s Saves and the Prince George’s CASH Campaign
- Scholastic, Inc.
- Silicon Valley,
- South Bay Saves
- St. Vincent’s Special Needs Services
- SUNY
- Truebill
- VIrginia Tech and Virginia Tech Saves
- Wayne Metropolitan Community Action Agency, OLHSA, and Great Lakes Saves
- Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions
- Wisconsin Saves and Wisconsin Women’s Business Initiative Corp
- Young Investors Network, Ghana
America Saves Week is an annual event coordinated by America Saves with input from planning support, including FDIC, AFCPE®, the National Credit Union Association, and more.
