Awards and Recognition
Texas State Teachers' Association Friend of Education Award - The 2011 award recognized Visa Inc. and its Practical Money Skills For Life website as an organization outside the field of education who has made outstanding contributions toward improving education in Texas.
Missouri NEA Horace Mann "Friend of Education" Awards - The Missouri National Education Association's Board of Directors selected the Practical Money Skills for Life program for the 2011 Horace Mann "Friend of Education" award. Practical Money Skills was this year's recipient in the Organizational Achievement-Civic Corporate category.
2009 Wealth Watchers Financial Literacy Advocate Award - As part of this year's Financial Literacy and Education Summit at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Visa Inc was named the recipient of the 2009 Wealth Watchers Financial Literacy Advocate Award for its commitment to promoting and empowering financial education.
2009 CTA State Gold Award - The California Teachers Association Board of Directors named Practical Money Skills for Life as a recipient for this award for its support of teachers, students and public education.
West Virginia Proclamation - West Virginia Treasurer John Perdue recognizes Practical Money Skills for Life and VISA Inc. as a private-sector leader in advancing financial literacy education.
The Busy Educator's Award - PracticalMoneySkills.com joined the ranks of sites this educator considers "incredible resources to make our job of educating children a bit easier."
The Math Forum @ Drexel featured www.practicalmoneyskills.com in its award-winning newsletter.
NACAA honors site with ACE award - At their annual conference held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the National Association of Consumer Agency Administrators (NACAA) awarded their ACE (Achievement in Consumer Education) Award to Visa's Practical Money Skills for Life program as the best innovative program for the private sector.
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse Digital Dozen - Added to a list of exemplary web sites for educators selected by the ENC, which is funded by the United States Department of Education and administered by The Ohio State University.
Jump$tart Soaring$tar Awards - Honorable mention Presented by the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy to recognize outstanding corporate initiatives to improve youth personal financial literacy.
Four Stars from Blue Web'n – Featured on this searchable library of outstanding Internet learning sites.
Four Stars out of Four Stars – Detroit Free Press
Teacher.com's – Teacher Information Network Gold Award
IAWMD Golden Web Award
Practical Money Skills for Life has been featured in both the Economics and the Banking Services issues of the Innovative Teaching Newsletter.
