By Steve Rosen
From Tribune Content Agency
Girl Scouts: It’s not just about cookie season and selling boxes of Thin Mints, Lemon-Ups, and Caramel deLites. Girl Scouts is also about learning money management skills, entrepreneurship, and other financial concepts.
And that focus on stimulating the financial mind-set and enlightening scouts about the importance of being money smart is being emphasized in a bigger way thanks to a partnership between Girl Scouts of the USA and the FINRA Financial Education Foundation.
The program—announced in early November—will roll out nationwide in the coming year and will touch more than 1.7 million Girl Scouts from 111 scout councils, including more than 570,000 scouts and their families in low-income and underserved communities, the organizations said….