Council for Economic Education

Council for Economic Education
Organization
Abbreviation CEE
Headquarters New York, NY, USA
Type Non-profit organization
Purpose Promotion of economic literacy
People
President/CEO Nan Morrison
Chairman Craig S. Donohue
Secretary S. Buford Scott
Treasurer Kenneth L. Thome

The Council for Economic Education[1] (the new name, since 2009 January, of the National Council on Economic Education) is a national non-profit organization "committed to empowerment and opportunity through economic and financial literacy."[2]

The mission of the Council for Economic Education is two-fold: To advocate for better and greater school-based economic and personal finance education at the kindergarten through 12th grade levels (K-12); and to educate young people in the United States and around the world, primarily through well-prepared teachers, so they may become empowered with economic and financial literacy.[3]

Headquartered in New York City, the Council provides resources to teachers and students in K-12 working in economics. These publications - print and electronic - are available nationwide.

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Campaign for Economic Literacy

The Council for Economic Education is working on an "ambitious campaign effort to significantly increase economic literacy -- much like the national campaign already well underway for reading literacy."

From their website:

The need for such a concerted effort is urgent; the issue is critical. Young people entering the workforce cannot function effectively without knowledge of how the world works. The spiraling rate of personal bankruptcies and credit card debt; the lack of understanding of the importance of saving and investing; the inability to discern the consequences of powerful international economic changes, or even to know the meaning of "profit," are all evidence that we as a nation can no longer afford to make economics an option in our schools. It is especially necessary to give our young people -- who are our future -- a grasp of the basic principles of the American economic system. [4]

Investors

The following is a partial list of donors to the Campaign for Economic Literacy. Each has donated at least 100,000 US Dollars to the Campaign.

3M Foundation Allstate Insurance Company American Express Foundation
Ameritech AT&T Bank of America Charitable Foundation
Business Roundtable Carson Group Thomas J. Holce Investments
HSBC - North America International Paper Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
The Calvin K. Kazanjian Economics Foundation The McGraw-Hill Companies Merrill Lynch
The Moody's Foundation Mortgage Bankers Association NASDAQ Educational Foundation
State Farm Insurance Companies The John Templeton Foundation United States Department of Education
UPS Foundation, Inc. The Vanguard Group Verizon Foundation
Wells Fargo Worth Media

Other past contributors:

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