America Saves Week...

America Saves week is February 19-26, 2012 and this year Cornell Cooperative Extension will be helping to launch the new New York State Saves campaign, a wonderful way to enable consumers to build their financial capacity.
 
America Saves Campaign's objective is to provide education on the importance of saving.
America Saves and New York Saves goals are to provide an opportunity for New Yorkers to assess their financial situations and goals, to provide dedicated time for financial action and to provide time for Cornell Cooperative Extension and its partners to emphasize automatic savings and make it easy to start saving.
 
The theme for this year's America Saves Week is "Set a Goal. Make a Plan. Save Automatically." In celebration, CCE-Steuben has developed three free events to help YOU set a goal, make a plan and save automatically!!
 
1. Attend a free webinar on  February 22, 2012 from 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. (EST) at the Cornell Cooperative Extension Learning Center in the Steuben County Office Building in Bath. Sponsored by University of Florida Extension, the webinar, entitled Three Keys to Successful Saving. will include topics on setting SMART financial goals, making a savings plan, finding money to save, and choosing the right accounts to match your goals.
 
2. Following the free webinar stay on February 22, 2012 from 1:30-3:30 p.m. for a FREE Making Ends Meet workshop with CCE-Steuben Financial Educator Jim Grace. Get control of your money through goal setting, budgeting tips and cash tracking.
 
3. Cornell Cooperative Extension of Steuben County will offer a FREE America Saves workshop on February 23, 2012 from 4:00-6:00 p.m. at the Southeast Steuben County Library in Corning. Are you finding it a tight squeeze between paychecks? Come find out how to tell your money where to go instead of asking where it went!
 
To register for any of the above free sessions, call Cornell Cooperative Extension at 607-664-2300.