EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Despite the vast accomplishments of the American credit system, approximately 35 million to 54 million Americans remain outside the credit system. For a variety of reasons, mainstream lenders have too little information on them to evaluate risk and thereby extend… Read More

Terms of use

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Resources

This page will provide additional links concerning volunteer opportunities at EFLS, useful tools for personal money management and resources pertaining to financial literacy in general. Use “save link as” if your browser will not allow you to directly open the… Read More

Trades

Supporting the growing number of trades programs in Alberta. With the current climate of economic uncertainty; many people are now in a phase of vocational transition. Current trends indicate that there are an increasing number of Women and Aboriginals training… Read More

Schools

Providing Financial Literacy Education to youth. EFLS believes that educating today’s youth financially is a priority. In their recent cross country consultations, the Canadian federal government’s National Task Force on Financial Literacy found that a highly common recommendation is that… Read More

Projects

At any given time, EFLS always has a number of initiatives and projects underway. To view some of our major projects select one of the project tabs above, or click on the images below this box. Aboriginal Trades Schools RESPs… Read More

Aboriginal Financial Literacy

EFLS sees that many within the Aboriginal community struggle greatly with money management and firmly believes that this can be improved with effective financial literacy courses that are tailored to their unique situation and background. Due to the presence of… Read More

Privacy Policy

The Collection and Use of Information Edmonton Financial Literacy Society limits the information we collect about our customers to what we need for internal business purposes only. Access On request we will provide you with access to the information we… Read More

Partners

EFLS takes a unique role in development and delivery with its partnership model, which builds on the strengths of other local agencies to provide its services. The EFLS partnership model provides an effective way to develop new projects and to… Read More