KIDSCA$H™ in the news!
August 2008: “Talk To Your Kids About Money, Before They Hear It From Somebody Else” becomes the first e-book from the CMC, which also introduces downloadable workbooks in English and Spanish.
April 2008: Maureen Rosen participates in the first ever Orange County NC Real World, teaching budgeting and money management to local teens. Real World, which focuses on teens who are aging out of the foster system and into adulthood, is an all-volunteer event that is held annually in North Carolina.
March 2008: KIDSCA$H™ is featured in the March 2008 issue of Southern Living Magazine.
November 2007: Maureen Rosen is invited by the Pines of Carolinas Girl Scouts Council back to Techno Quest at Meredith College in Raleigh NC to teach Girl Scouts how to manage their money.
July 2007: Maureen Rosen is invited to teach teens about money management for Carolina Outreach in Durham NC.
April 2007: Maureen Rosen returns to the Real World Raleigh event to teach basic budgeting to teenagers. Real World, which focuses on teens who are aging out of the foster system and into adulthood, is an all-volunteer event that draws from many counties in NC. Real World Orange County is scheduled to be held in early 2008.
November 18, 2006: Maureen Rosen teaches Girl Scouts about money management and budgeting at the annual Techno Quest event at Meredith College in Raleigh.
August 9 and 10, 2006: Maureen Rosen was invited by CONCERN of Durham to conduct a two-day session on basic money management with a group of teens in their program. One of the session highlights was having the teens do a “crash business plan” using their own ideas for small businesses and presenting them to the group.
August 10, 2006: The Cash Management Connection and Maureen Dolan Rosen were featured in an article on the online Dow Jones financial newsletter, Marketwatch. The article was written by Andrea Coombes, and titled “Back to Budget Shopping”. Click here for the whole story!
June 20, 2006: Maureen Rosen was invited to present a basic money management program for 40 Chapel Hill teens involved with the “Summer Intern” program of the Chapel Hill Police Department.
April 5, 2006: In honor of April being “Financial Literacy for Youth Month”, Maureen Rosen conducted workshops on credit cards and debt to 75 seventh graders for the Communities in Schools program, sponsored by RBC Centura Bank, in Rocky Mount NC.
March 29, 2006: The Cash Management Connection was well-represented at Real World Raleigh on March 29, when Maureen Rosen volunteered in the annual event that brings foster young adults together for a day of learning all about budgeting. Real World is 100% volunteer, and sponsored in part by Independent Living Resources, Inc. of Durham, NC (www.ilrinc.com). Rosen spent the morning teaching budgeting classes, and the afternoon helping to guide 120+ young adults through the process of “shopping” and setting up an actual budget.
Chapel Hill, NC and Johannesburg SA; January 2006: Talk about your global economy! In December 2005, Maureen Dolan Rosen, publisher of a line of cash management workbooks for kids, teens and adults, traveled to South Africa to work with Charly and Nadege Luntadila, founders of a new school of financial literacy, the Youth Money Wise Centre. (Rosen is pictured here in front of the school with the Luntadilas.) YMWC is
the first school of its kind in Africa, teaching kids and teens (and eventually adults) basic money management skills. The school is the culmination of a dream of the Luntadilas, who have long wanted to establish a way to address the lack of basic financial skills among many of South Africa’s people, and especially among its youth. The school will launch its first classes for kids and teens in January 2006, and will cover a broad range of financial topics, including basic budgeting, South African and global economics, identity theft, banking and how to avoid credit card debt. The school will begin with classes for kids age 8-12, and teens age 13-17, with additional classes staritng later in 2006 for college students, adults, newly-married couples and senior citizens.
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Raleigh, NC, January 2006: Maureen Dolan Rosen was invited back to reprise her workshop for kids at this year’s meeting of the “Heart for Home School Winter Conference” in Raleigh, NC. The conference is an annual gathering of local homeschooling parents and kids, and offers workshops on a variety of topics for all. Rosen will present a workshop on Saturday, January 28th for kids and teens about the importance of managing their money wisely.
October 2005: CASH MANAGEMENT CONNECTION TEAMS UP WITH MOONJAR MONEYBOX TO OFFER “BIRTHDAY BUNDLE” FOR KIDS
The Cash Management Connection has teamed up with Moonjar Moneybox, and the result is a great new “Birthday Bundle” for kids. The bundle includes a copy of Kidscash, the Cash Management Workbook for kids (published by the CMC), a Moonjar Moneybox bank, a calculator, and two novelty pencils, all wrapped up for the birthday kid.
“We think it makes a great birthday gift for kids age 8-12,” says Maureen Dolan Rosen, president of the CMC. “And we’re delighted to be partnering with Moonjar. I love their products, and Eulalie Scanduzzi (president of Moonjar) and I have been emailing over the past couple of years. We refer customers to each other all the time, so this seemed like a natural extension of that.” Kidscash teaching basic budgeting and goal-setting and guides users through 12 months of tracking what they get, spend and save. The Moonjar Moneybox is a clever three-part bank that encourages saving and sharing. Click here to purchase the “Birthday Bundle”.
September 2005: Personal Finance Curriculum for Kids Now Available. Course Teaches Kids the Basics of Money Management
The Cash Management Connection, publishers of a line of cash management workbooks for kids, teens, college students and adults, has introduced the KIDSCA$H™ Personal Finance Curriculum. According to publisher Maureen Dolan Rosen, the new curriculum is based on her experience of the past four years teaching volunteer classes in money management to kids and teens, as well as to their parents.
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September 2005: The Cash Management Connection publishes a revised version of its KIDSCA$H™ Classroom Version, which now includes a full 10-section curriculum on basic money management. Topics covered include Banking, Paychecks and Jobs, The Stock Market, Personal Budgeting, and more. The new version is reproducible for classroom use and can be purchased on our website.
August 2005: In answer to queries from customers, The Cash Management Connection adds a Spanish version of KIDSCA$H™ to its product line. Spanish versions of MYCA$H™ Pocket Workbook and MYCA$H™ LP were added to the lineup in June 2005.
 July 2005: Maureen Dolan Rosen did a an in-store book signing at Duck’s Cottage Coffee and Bookshop in Duck, NC in July.
June 2005: Maureen Rosen conducts a workshop for employees at the SAS Institute in Cary, NC. The session was titled “Talk To Your Kids About Money, Before They Hear It From Someone Else”.
June 2005: Market Street Books and Maps in Southern Village of Chapel Hill invites Maureen Rosen to do an in-store presentation for parents.
April, 2005: In honor of “National Financial Literacy Month”, Maureen Rosen coordinates a month-long money management program for Carrington Middle School in Durham, North Carolina. Along with several volunteers from the local financial community, Rosen presented classes on budgeting, banking, credit cards, debt and small business to a class of 6th, 7th and 8th grade students.
February, 2005: Maureen Rosen presents two sessions on money management to the annual conference of the “Heart For Home School” association in Raleigh, North Carolina. The first session was for kids age seven and up, and the second was for parents, focusing on how they can address money matters with their children (of all ages).
Carolina Parent Magazine: “Stop Spending Money You Don’t Have” by Jane Paige, 12/04
September 17, 2004: Dollar$ & Cent$”, the volunteer program that taught students at Durham’s Carrington Middle School the basics of money management last spring, takes on a new venue this fall. The program, a collaborative, all-volunteer effort coordinated by Maureen Dolan Rosen (local publisher of KIDSCA$H™ and MYCA$H™ and Marc Cram (certified financial planner with Cram Investment Group), will cover such areas of finance as basic cash management, budgeting, college costs, credit cards and debt management, starting a business, and much more. And the curriculum will be geared toward high-schoolers this time.
“We’re very excited about this,” says Rosen. “The kids at this age really need to start thinking seriously about how they’re going to handle their money after high school, whether it’s paying for college or supporting themselves as they work full-time. Managing their money becomes paramount, and it’s so important that they start paying attention to it now.” “Dollar$ & Cent$” will begin on October 4, and meet twice weekly for seven weeks. Funding for the program will come from a variety of sources, including First Citizens Bank of Durham, the Financial Planning Association of North Carolina and Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America. Rosen and Cram and other local professionals have volunteered their time and expertise to teach the classes, and will include, among others, Jennifer Lazarus of Woodward Financial Advisors in Chapel Hill, and Ed Fulbright of Fulbright Financial in Durham. There will also be a one-time evening workshop at Hillside for parents, to give them pointers on talking with their kids about money.
Durham Herald Sun: "How To Get Ahead in Business" by Mike Petrocelli, 3/15/04
Bay Area Parent, LA Parent, Boston Parent's Paper: "Financial Literacy for Kids: Money Lessons Should Start Young", by Gregory Keer, 3/04
Triangle Business Journal: "BIZ Section", by Dale Gibson, 2/24/04
Kiplinger Personal Finance: "Piggy Banks for Managing Money", by Janet Bodnar, 2/5/04, www.kiplinger.com
KIDSCA$H™ Selected as Textbook for California Program, December 2003: KIDSCA$H™ has been chosen by Manage 4 Cash (M4C) to be used as the textbook for its financial literacy classes for teens. M4C is a non-profit organization whose mission is to train youngsters, and young adults, on the basics of personal financial management. Venues for classes include school programs, credit counseling services (kids of parents using this service), churches, boy and girl scouts and other groups involving middle- and high-school age kids. Classes are taught by college students trained in an eight hour course and retrained every quarter, according to Ken O’Key, President of M4C. Maureen Dolan Rosen, publisher of KIDSCA$H™, is “...thrilled that M4C has chosen KIDSCA$H™ as the workbook for their program. We are delighted to be working with an education company that is so focused on an issue as fundamentally important as financial literacy for kids.”
KIDSCA$H™ Publisher Coordinates Volunteer Financial Literacy Program, February 2004: “Dollar$ & Cent$”, a program that teaches middle-schoolers the basics of money management, began on Monday, February 9 at Carrington Middle School in North Durham. The program, a collaborative, volunteer effort coordinated by Maureen Rosen (publisher of KIDSCA$H™) and Marc Cram (certified financial planner with Verity Asset Management), covers such areas of finance as basic cash management, budgeting, college costs, credit cards and debt management, starting a business, and much more. The class will also take a field trip to a baking company in Durham, to hear real-life tales of a small business. “We think it may be the first of its kind, at least around here,” says Rosen. “And we’re thrilled with the response of the school and of the kids: they’re fabulous!” The class meets twice weekly, and in addition to Rosen and Cram, includes other volunteer local professionals in finance and related industries.
CBS Market Watch: "Lesson Plan: Children and Personal Finance: What Parents Can Do", by Andrea Coombes , 9/23/03.
Chapel Hill Herald, "Book Teaches Kids To Cash In On Money", by Peter Sorenson, 7/28/03
Genesee Valley Parent: Financial Planning Resources for Parents and Kids, 6/03
Chesapeake Family Magazine "New and Notable" section, 1/03
Atlanta Parent Magazine, 12/02
Memphis Parent Magazine: "Money Matters: When it comes to family finance, how much should you tell the kids?", by Katherine Perry, 11/02
Kansas City Star: “New Books Make Learning Financial Basics As Easy As Pie”, by Steve Rosen, 11/3/02
Raleigh, NC News and Observer: “Learning About Money Begins at Home”, by Chris Serres, 11/3/02
Kansas City Star: "When the Kids Go Fundraising, It Can Be A Worry Or a Good Lesson", by Steve Rosen, 11/3/02
 Raleigh, NC News and Observer: "Work and Money" section; 9/8/02
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Charlotte, NC Observer: "Money Lessons Pay Off", by Pam Kelley; 9/03/02
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