Joint Initiative Reinforces Partnership Aimed
to Bolster Both Organizations' Commitment to Financial
Literacy
NEW
YORK, Sept. 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Dow Jones
today announced a new initiative between its comprehensive
financial literacy and proficiency resource, Dow Jones
Smart Money and Operation HOPE, a nationally recognized
non-profit organization providing financial literacy empowerment
and economic education to youth and adults, to provide $3.5 million worth of MarketWatch subscriptions
to U.S. high schools for the benefit of their teachers and
students. This partnership is aimed at empowering students and
educators with essential personal finance tools, bringing together
Dow Jones's award-winning MarketWatch journalism and Operation
HOPE's extensive network to provide students with the knowledge and
skills needed to build a secure financial future. This initiative
is another key moment in Dow Jones's efforts, led by CEO
Almar Latour, to make financial
literacy more accessible.
Only one in four American students have access to personal
finance resources. By providing subscriptions to MarketWatch,
teachers and students will receive access to financial tools,
insights and advice to help them better understand, strategize and
grow their money.
"Core to Almar's vision for Dow Jones is to be a leader in
providing reliable financial information to a broad audience, free
of charge," said Mark
DeCambre, editor in chief at MarketWatch. "This
agreement builds on that effort – bringing MarketWatch's
world-class journalism directly into classrooms across the country.
We're excited about our collaboration with Operation HOPE and look
forward to seeing all the success it brings."
"We're thrilled to partner with Dow Jones to deliver these
subscriptions to deserving students and teachers across America,"
said John Hope Bryant,
Operation HOPE founder, chairman and CEO. "We are especially
committed to ensuring these subscriptions reach those who would not
otherwise have access to this important information. We cannot
fully succeed and thrive in a free enterprise system without
understanding how that system works. This is an important step in
that direction."
Dow Jones is home to the largest collection of wealth and
investing publications in the world–including MarketWatch's
engaging, up-to-the-minute reporting–and has distinguished itself
as a champion of various financial literacy initiatives. Launched
earlier this year, Dow Jones Smart Money leverages best-in-class
insights and analysis from Dow Jones newsrooms to close the gap in
financial literacy and ensure that anyone who needs resources to
navigate finance topics, can find them with ease and confidence.
Operation HOPE's expansive network will make MarketWatch available
as a valuable tool for high school students throughout the
nation.
Teachers and administrators can apply for a free one-year
subscription for their school here.
The two organizations will join to host a virtual panel on the
election, the economy and markets on October
24, 2024. Click here to register for the free
event.
For more timely, relevant personal finance information, visit
SmartMoney.com.
About Dow Jones
Dow Jones is a global provider of news
and business information, delivering content to consumers and
organizations around the world across multiple formats, including
print, digital, mobile and live events. Dow Jones has produced
unrivaled quality content for more than 130 years and today has one
of the world's largest news-gathering operations globally. It is
home to leading publications and products including the flagship
Wall Street Journal, America's largest newspaper by paid
circulation; Barron's, MarketWatch, Mansion Global, Financial News,
Investor's Business Daily, Factiva, Dow Jones Risk &
Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, OPIS and Chemical Market
Analytics. Dow Jones is a division of News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA;
ASX: NWS, NWSLV).
About Operation HOPE
Since 1992, Operation HOPE has been moving America from civil
rights to "silver rights" with the mission of making free
enterprise and capitalism work for the underserved – disrupting
poverty for millions of low and moderate-income youth and adults
across the nation. Through its community uplift model, HOPE Inside,
which received the 2016 Innovator of the Year recognition by
American Banker magazine, Operation HOPE has served more than 4
million individuals and directed more than $3.2 billion in economic activity into
disenfranchised communities—turning check-cashing customers into
banking customers, renters into homeowners, small business dreamers
into small business owners, minimum wage workers into living wage
consumers, and uncertain disaster victims into financially
empowered disaster survivors. For more information:
OperationHOPE.org. Follow the HOPE conversation on Twitter,
Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn.
Press Contacts
Dow
Jones:
Anthony
Zurita
anthony.zurita@dowjones.com
Jaden
Jules
jaden.jules@dowjones.com
Operation HOPE:
Kevin E.
Boucher
kevin.boucher@operationhope.org
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