Volunteer Opportunity: Teach High School Students about Money at Mad City Money

Ready to roll up your sleeves and help our high school youth get a preview of real-life money management skills and struggles? Now is your chance. Thanks to grant support from Wachovia, a Wells-Fargo Company, OnTrack WNC will be presenting Mad City Money for the Asheville High School Freshman Class and YOU can volunteer to help!

What's this Mad City Money All About? Imagine you’re a high school student who has just been transported into the future with all of your friends. Your life situation has been transformed - some of you have just graduated from college or technical school and some of you are married with kids. Financially, things are starting to roll along - you’ve just started your first full-time job, but along with that come real-deal adult bills - housing, food, and daycare. Survival is based on the choices you make based on building a budget factoring in your income, debt, and household responsibilities.

Welcome to Mad City Money –a youth financial literacy program that provides high school students with real-life experience managing money. Mad City Money is a two-hour, interactive simulation where students build a monthly budget based on their incomes, making choices throughout the program on how to spend that money. Students visit merchants in Mad City to purchase housing, cars, clothing, and fulfill other needs. There’s a credit union for financial services and a mall for additional shopping. Students write checks for their purchases, charged with the challenge of balancing both their checkbooks and their budgets.

Here's where we need your help! OnTrack WNC needs volunteers to help staff Mad City Money to be held on Wednesday morning, March 16, at Asheville High School. Volunteers are required to attend a brief training for the event in late February or early March.
"This is our third year providing the Mad City Money program to Asheville High School's Freshman class. We are extremely grateful for support from Wachovia, a Wells-Fargo Company, who underwrites this program for Asheville High School,” commented Celeste Collins, OnTrack WNC Executive Director.

To volunteer, please email Joanna Bender, Community Financial Educator for OnTrack WNC, or call her at 255-5166 ext. 140.

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50 South French Broad Ave.
Asheville, North Carolina 28801

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