FICO Hosts Free Financial Literacy Event for Bay Area Teens During First Stop of Chelsea FC’s Summer Tour
July 17 2024 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
FICO Teams up with U.S. Soccer Foundation to
showcase FICO’s Score A Better Future Fundamentals program, aimed
at educating teens on personal finance to help them successfully
achieve their future financial goals
Global analytics software leader, FICO, will host a free Score A
Better Future™ Fundamentals credit education event for teens from
the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula on July 24, 2024. This
event aims to provide students with the knowledge and resources to
better understand their financial health, including an educational
overview on the role of credit, and the FICO® Score, the credit
score used by 90% of top US lenders to make lending decisions.
As part of FICO’s ‘Fields of Financial Empowerment’ partnership
with globally renowned soccer team, Chelsea FC and the U.S. Soccer
Foundation, students will also be able to attend the Chelsea x
Wrexham match for free following the workshop.
The Fields of Financial Empowerment tour intends to bring wider
access to financial literacy education nationwide aiming to improve
credit and personal finance knowledge through a series of
workshops. FICO’s Score A Better Future Fundamentals program is
designed to help educate teens on how FICO® Scores can impact them
in the future and provide a foundation to develop good financial
habits for their financial health.
“The goal of FICO’s credit education workshops is to highlight
the importance of financial literacy to empower and encourage
people to achieve their financial goals,” said Jenelle Dito,
FICO Scores client services. “We’re excited to kick off the
Chelsea FC U.S. summer tour in Santa Clara and engage with the
community by sharing financial and credit information with
participants from Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula.”
Who: FICO, U.S. Soccer Foundation, Chelsea Football Club,
and Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula
What: Score A Better Future is a free community education
and financial empowerment event by FICO in partnership with
national nonprofits and Chelsea Football Club.
When: Wednesday, July 24, 2024 from 4:00-6:00 p.m.
PDT.
Where: Boys and Girls Clubs of the Peninsula East Palo
Alto Clubhouse 2031 Pulgas Ave East Palo Alto, CA 94303
To learn more about the event or get more information on FICO’s
Score A Better Future Fundamentals program, visit:
https://www.fico.com/sabf/.
To learn more about the partnership with Chelsea Football Club,
visit:
https://www.fico.com/en/newsroom/fico-kicks-national-fields-financial-empowerment-summer-tour-chelsea-football-club-and-u-s
To learn more about Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula,
visit: http://www.bgcp.org
Score A Better Future™ Fundamentals Helps to Bridge
the Financial Literacy Gap
Used by 90% of the top U.S. lenders, FICO® Scores help millions
of people gain access to the credit they need to do things like get
an education and make major purchases. Fundamentals helps empower
students with financial literacy and the knowledge to achieve their
financial goals.
Educators at all accredited middle and high schools can receive
the Fundamentals curriculum and supporting materials through the
Fundamentals website, which will also provide the background
knowledge and understanding for teachers to successfully educate
students while strengthening their own understanding of credit. To
learn more about Fundamentals visit
https://www.fico.com/sabf/fundamentals.
About FICO
FICO (NYSE: FICO) powers decisions that help people and
businesses around the world prosper. Founded in 1956, the company
is a pioneer in the use of predictive analytics and data science to
improve operational decisions. FICO holds more than 200 US and
foreign patents on technologies that increase profitability,
customer satisfaction and growth for businesses in financial
services, insurance, telecommunications, health care, retail and
many other industries. Using FICO solutions, businesses in more
than 100 countries do everything from protecting 4 billion payment
cards from fraud, to improving financial inclusion, to increasing
supply chain resiliency. The FICO® Score, used by 90% of top US
lenders, is the standard measure of consumer credit risk in the US
and has been made available in over 40 other countries, improving
risk management, credit access and transparency.
Learn more at https://www.fico.com/en.
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https://www.fico.com/en/newsroom.
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countries.
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