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Financial education is at the core of the Museum’s mission and its public programs and services. An active national-level advocate on behalf of the growing financial literacy movement, the Museum is committed to helping all Americans look to the lessons of financial history, while taking charge of their own financial lives.

This list contains sites that help Americans learn about saving, investing, credit and planning for the future.

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  • American Memory
    Researching events in American business history? Visit the Library of Congress's website of historical collections.
  • American Numismatic Society
    The ANS houses North America's most comprehensive collection of coins, paper money, medals, and other numismatic items. The Society's collections database and library catalog are both searchable online.
  • Baruch College Zicklin School of Business
    The largest AACSB-accredited business school in the U.S.
  • Big Picture Chart
    Investments Illustrated's Big Picture chart illustrates the investment returns of major asset classes from 1926 onward, couched within the context of key events. In a single, easy-to-understand piece, the chart brings several investment themes to life, including the importance of a long-term perspective, the power of compounding, risk vs. return and historical perspective.
  • Bureau of Engraving and Printing
    The bureau of government responsible for printing and keeping secure the paper currency of the United States.
  • Business History
    The Internet's largest site dedicated to business and management history.
  • CFA Institute
    CFA Institute is the global association for investment professionals. It administers the CFA and CIPM curriculum and exam programs worldwide; publishes research; conducts professional development programs; and sets voluntary, ethics-based professional and performance-reporting standards for the investment industry.
  • Curb Exchange: An Audio and Print Walking Tour of Wall Street
    Curb Exchange is a free self-guided audio and print walking tour of Wall Street, which explores forgotten stories from its past to provide clues to the recent global financial meltdown. The tour is made up of eight short 10-minute walks, each set in a different era of American history. On each short walk, the narrator leads you to different sites in the Financial District that were significant during that time period to hear commentary and dramatic reenactments of the stories on the very streets where they all happened.
  • Currency Gallery
    An online museum and historical site dedicated exclusively to United States paper money. This site is the only place that you can see an example of virtually every type of paper money ever issued by the United States government.
  • Economic History Services
    Provides resources for and promote communication among scholars in economics.
  • Economica: Women and the Global Economy
    The International Museum of Women (I.M.O.W.), an award-winning social change museum, has launched its new global online exhibition, "Economica: Women and the Global Economy." Economica is a vivid and timely online exploration of women's global economic participation featuring powerful voices, visions, and images that cover a range of topics -- from business leadership and philanthropy to microenterprise and grassroots solutions.
  • Enchanted Collar Children's Book on Money
    The Enchanted Collar™ is an adventure story series that teaches real-life financial lessons and moral values through Eli’s adventures with his friends. Ideal for children ages 7 and up.
  • Federal Reserve
    Interested in the actions of the central bank of the United States? You can find all the information relating to the Fed you'll want on this comprehensive site.
  • Flat World Knowledge Blog
    This blog helps business, economics and finance professors to better utilize the textbooks published by Flat World Knowledge, which offers to students and non-students alike full and free online access to all of their titles.

  • Guides Association of New York City (GANYC)
    The Guides Association of New York City (GANYC) is one of the oldest guide’s associations in America. Its members, all licensed tour guides, take great pride in showing visitors around the Big Apple.
  • International Bond and Share Society
    The world's largest society for stock and bond collectors. Includes illustrations of the society's magazine and a gallery of stocks, as well as membership information and directories.
  • International Monetary Fund
    This international organization composed of 183 member nations acts as a cooperative force when dealing with international monetary problems, and promotes balanced growth and free trade around the world.
  • International Stock Exchange Executives Emeriti (ISEEE)
    The ISEEE is a global organization of people who have held senior executive positions at stock or derivatives exchanges. Its purpose is primarily educational in nature, enabling its members to share information on developments in the world’s financial markets concerning matters such as organization, operations, listing, trading, disclosure, clearing and settlement, access to the market, technical infrastructure, risk management, surveillance and enforcement, investor protection and foreign investment.
  • Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy
    Seeks to improve the personal financial literacy of young adults. It evaluates the financial literacy of young adults; develops, disseminates, and encourages the use of guidelines for grades K-12; and promotes the teaching of personal finance.
  • NYFP's The Week in Wall Street History
    New York Financial Press's weekly television segment on financial history, filmed at the Museum of American Finance.
  • National Association of Investors Corporation
    Become a better informed and wiser investor by joining an investment club.
  • National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship
    NFTE's mission is to provide entrepreneurship education programs to young people from low-income communities.
  • New York University Stern School of Business
    New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business is one of the nation's premier management education schools and research centers.
  • Recessipedia: Wiki of the Financial Crisis
    Recessipedia is the Museum of American Finance's wiki designed to tap the wisdom of crowds from Wall Street to Main Street to learn the causes of the current financial crisis. Add your story today!
  • SIFMA: Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association
    Focuses on investor education and includes a resource guide for investors, as well as a vast library of investment related links.
  • Stock Market Game
    An electronic version of Wall Street trading designed to help students and adults understand the stock market, the costs and benefits involved in decision-making, the sources and uses of capital and other related economic concepts.
  • The Thomas Willing Institute
    The Thomas Willing Institute for the Study of Financial Markets, Institutions and Regulations (TWI) was founded in 2010 with generous funding from the Nef Family Foundation, the Museum of American Finance and Augustana College. Directed by Dr. Robert E. Wright, the Nef Family Chair of Political Economy at Augustana, TWI aims to increase public understanding of the financial system and its interactions with bureaucrats, businesses, consumers and politicians.
  • Top 100 Business Events
    TheStreet.com's countdown of the 100 most important events and ideas that drove American business in the 20th century.
  • Trading Pit History
    This site is an extensive historical gallery of the hand signal language used in the trading pits of the world's commodity exchanges. The project primarily focuses upon those signals used in the Chicago and New York exchanges, but also extends to those used on foreign trading floors.
  • United States Treasury Department
    The department of government responsible for managing the government's finances, safeguarding our financial system, and promoting the stability of U.S. and foreign economies.
  • Ways to Save
    Readers Digest provides information on saving money during the economic crisis.
  • World Bank
    The world's largest source of development assisstance to countries in need. The World Bank gives out $16 billion in loans annually in its fight to help developing nations onto the road of economic stability.
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