As a Registered Investment Advisory (RIA), we want to promote financial education. One of the best efforts we’ve seen in this field of education has to be through the Museum of American Finance. The Museum of American Finance is the nation's only independent, non-profit museum dedicated to preserving, exhibiting and teaching about American finance and financial history. Housed in an historic bank building on Wall Street, the Museum's magnificent grand mezzanine banking hall provides an ideal setting for the permanent exhibits on the financial markets, money, banking, entrepreneurship and Alexander Hamilton. Financial education is at the core of the Museum's mission, seeking to promote lifelong learning and inquiry.
The MoAF provides a wide array of financial literacy programs to students of all ages, and with particular focus on those who need them most. Through its Title 1 Program, the Museum offers free classes and tours- complete with lunch and subsidized transportation- to schools in many communities. Through its Museum Finance Academy, a free eight-week certificate course, the Museum offers high school students a solid foundation in personal finance along with the change to earn college scholarships. And through its robust high school internship and volunteer program, the Museum offers the students selected opportunities, responsibilities and a support network they simply have never had before.
To the thousands of children and teens who participate in the Museum’s programs each year, finance education can mean the different between attending college or not; between saving their earnings in a bank account or spending them carelessly; and between living paycheck to paycheck or having a stable financial future.
Throughout the filming process we will follow the incredible work of the Museum of American Finance. Our goals for the film as to community the museum's mission of financial education, present the Museum of American Finance as a physical destination when tourists are visiting Wall St versus being an afterthought, show how the museum's programs have positively impacted hundreds of participants, and to inspire donors to support the work of the Museum of American Finance and its incredible programs.
I am very excited to work with the administrators of the Museum of American Finance, the student interns at Stuyvesant High School who will be editing the film, and the employees of Placer Partners who will help manage this film project.
