Young Illinois Saves
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• Young Illinois Saves program teaches teens to get a head
  start on their financial future by taking ACTION today!
   

• Young Illinois Saves is a collaborative, community based
  effort to increase teen and young adult saving in the State of Illinois.

This statewide, pilot effort to apply the America Saves model to a youth audience is one of the first comprehensive youth financial literacy campaigns in the nation. The Young Illinois Saves effort has the support of key local and state organizations including: the Chicago Public Schools, the Illinois State Treasurer, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the City Treasurer of Chicago.

 Young Illinois Saves will use peer based education in the form of motivational campaigns led by teens to provide students with the motivation and opportunity to save. Saves participants will be asked to set their own savings goal, make a commitment to save and join a movement of teen and young adult savers statewide. Young Illinois Saves will facilitate community partnerships between youth organizations and banks across the state to provide students with the opportunity to save in youth friendly saving accounts with no or low minimums, no fees and saving incentives.

Contact us at ilsaves@econcouncil.org to learn how you can join the Young Illinois Saves movement or arrange to have a Young Illinois Saves campaign at your school or youth location. (Openings are limited)

View a brief summary of the Young Illinois Saves project and a list of partners.