NEW YORK -- Mountain America CU CEO, Sterling Nielsen, will be among representatives from eight other financial institutions to ring The Opening Bell at the New York Stock Exchange this morning to celebrate The NYSE’s Financial Literacy Week, which is held during National Financial Literacy Month.
Mountain America and the other eight financial institutions were honored by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the Society for Human Resource Management for providing financial education programs for their employees to help improve their personal and financial wellbeing. The nine winning organizations were selected from more than 300 applicants.
“Mountain America Credit Union is committed to financial education for our employees, our members and the communities we live in. We were recognized for our effort in training our employees as one of the 2011 recipients of the Workplace Leaders in Financial Education,” Nielsen said. “I'm honored to be invited along with the other award recipients to kick off Financial Literacy Week at the New York Stock Exchange.”
Mountain America provides a no-cost course for its employees called the 8 Pillars of Financial Greatness. 8 Pillars is a complete learning system that provides real-world financial education to individuals, families and organizations that want to get on track financially, become motivated to take action and live a balanced life.
In addition, Mountain America teaches Financial Literacy classes in high schools throughout the state reaching thousands of students, helping them learn the importance of understanding the basics of budgeting, saving, spending, wise use of credit, credit reports and protecting their identity. Mountain America also offers employees, members and the general public a broad variety of financial literacy educational modules that provide guidance on the core aspects of sound money management on its website www.macu.com/Financial Tools/Free Financial Education.
