Financial Literacy and Investing Summer Camps for Youth

(Black PR Wire) Junior Wallstreeters, Inc. a non-profit, is excited to provide an online youth summer camp. The camp is great for preventing learning loss and offers a fun environment for students to learn financial and investing concepts. 

The camps will teach students life-long financial education skills and discipline through 10 lessons with an emphasis on African American history and culture. Chisolm, executive director of Junior Wallstreeters, Inc states: “In addition to topics like budgeting, banking, and investing in the stock market, our camp goes beyond others by exploring community wealth building through investment clubs.” “Simply put,” Chisolm says, “our goal is to teach financial knowledge to eliminate the wealth gap by showing young people how to properly use money as a tool. According to a recent report by McKinsey & Company, the average median family wealth for African American households is $24,000 to $164,000 for white family households.  These camps are not only for African Americans but for all underserved communities. 

One parent whose child participated last summer wrote: 

Dear Mr. Chisolm,

Thank you for providing this camp to the youth. My son did gain a lot of useful information which he already started applying. He opened a savings account yesterday at a credit union and asked them a lot of questions about interest, types of loans, etc which I know was a direct result of being in this class. 

In addition to the financial literacy and investing camp, Junior Wallstreeters is offering the following: 1) Introduction to Cryptocurrency and NFTs; and 2) Introduction to Real Estate Investing and Advanced Investment Clubs. The financial literacy and investing session is a prerequisite for these advanced sessions. The Financial Literacy and Investing Camp will be held virtually every two weeks for six weeks between June 27st-August 5th, from 10am-3pm EST with a 1 hour lunch break.  The Introduction to Cryptocurrency will be held from July 11th-15th from 11:00-5pm EST. The Introduction to Real Estate Investing and Advanced Investment Clubs Camps will be held July 11th to July 22nd from 12pm-5pm EST and July 25th-August 5th from 10am -3pm EST.  

Students must be between the ages of 12-22 and have a computer with Internet access. Parents with younger children should contact Mr. Chisolm. The cost of the two week camp session is from $300 to $325. This fee includes an electronic student handbook.  

Junior Wallstreeters have secured several scholarships for underserved students to attend the camp. Chisolm asserts: “we want to give as many students the opportunity to obtain a financial education regardless of their family's financial situation.” Families that are interested in obtaining a scholarship to attend the camp, should visit our website for the scholarship application.Those that are interested in supporting us, can sponsor a camper or make a donation at: https://donorbox.org/empowering-youth-with-financial-wellness?default_interval=o

Limited spaces available. You can register for all the sessions at:  https://www.thejrwallstreeter.com