WHY HANDS ON BANKING?

Hands on Banking is a free, non-commercial financial education program provided as a public service by the Wells Fargo Foundation. It offers presentations and resources to help practitioners, organizations, and volunteers teach valuable financial skills. Anyone is welcome to use these materials. Check out the video below for more information about Hands on Banking.

WELLS FARGO EMPLOYEES

Wells Fargo employees are encouraged to use Hands on Banking financial education content when volunteering with nonprofit organizations and schools. More guidance for employees is available on the Hands on Banking Resource Center on Teamworks (internal Wells Fargo link). Please be sure to log your volunteer hours in the Community Care Portal (Wells Fargo partner site).

RESOURCES

Presentations

These ready-to-use presentations and corresponding handouts are organized by audience. The PowerPoint presentations include speaker notes to guide you.

Lesson plans and courses

Anyone can use the educator resources (lesson plans) and online courses for students on the Hands on Banking for Youth site.

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The Hands on Banking Experience

The Hands on Banking^® Experience is a “real-world” money management simulation, designed for high school students and young adults, that helps teach important financial education concepts such as budgeting, comparison shopping, and evaluating needs, wants, and tradeoffs in a relevant and engaging way. Materials are available to conduct the activity in person or virtually.

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Hands on Banking one-pager

This handout can help you inform audiences about the available resources: Hands on Banking one-pager (PDF)