Note: This is Part 2 in aSeries of Articles on Bilingual Financial Education. Find a link to Part 1 of the series by scrolling down to the section titled: Related Reading
Why Bilingual Financial Education Matters
In 2025, Team Sammy will make more of its award-winning financial education resources available in other languages, starting with Spanish. (Reference: Sammy Rabbit's 2025 Bilingual Strategy: Bringing Financial Education to Underserved Communities)
Language barriers often limit access to vital resources, including financial education. By offering materials in both English and Spanish, Sammy Rabbit aims to decrease these barriers and make financial literacy more accessible to a wider audience.
This means, parents and children will be able to learn together in the language they are most comfortable with, fostering a shared understanding of essential money habits and financial principles.
3 Benefits of a Shared Understanding
Three of many of the benefits of fostering a shared understanding of money habits between kids and parents, include:
Enhanced Communication: When both parents and children learn together in their preferred language, it strengthens their ability to communicate openly about financial topics. This creates a foundation for ongoing conversations about money, budgets, and financial goals.
Reinforced Learning: Learning together ensures that both parties are on the same page, allowing parents to reinforce the financial habits and principles taught to their children in daily life. It creates consistency in financial education at home.
Breaking Generational Barriers: A shared understanding between parents and children that produces enahnced communication and reinforced learning gives families a better chance to break cycles of financial illiteracy. It means both parents and children are better able to adopt good money habits, setting the entire family system on a path to financial security.
Reaching Underserved Communities
To ensure these resources reach the families who need them most, we are partnering with banks, credit unions, nonprofits, financial service professionals, universities, and anyone and everyone interested in making financial literacy education and resources more available and accessible, everywhere and especially in low-income and minority communities where financial literacy resources are often scarce.
How You Can Help
We invite businesses, educators, nonprofits, and community leaders to join us in this strategy and mission. Whether through sponsorships, hosting distribution events, or volunteering, your support will accelate access and availability of these life-changing materials to children who need them most. Together, we can build a future where every child has the knowledge and confidence to achieve financial freedom.
Contact us to get started today and/or discuss the possibilities, including what would work best to earn your support!
The Importance of Starting Early
Developing good financial habits begins at a young age. Research consistently shows that children start forming money habits as early as age seven. By introducing bilingual financial education early, we can help children build a strong foundation in essential skills like saving, budgeting, and goal-setting. These early lessons not only empower kids to make smart money choices but also set them on a path toward long-term financial independence and security.
Our Hope
Financial literacy is more than just understanding numbers; it’s about feelings, attitudes, mindsets, habits, and empowering children and families to dream big and achieve their goals.
By providing bilingual resources, we aim to build a bridge to better lives and make big dreams come true. We are committed to breaking down language and cultural barriers, as well as countering the hyper-consumerist “buy everything now” mindset, so that every child and family has access to opportunity.
Together, let's grow good. Let's educate, empower, and elevate the next generation—and generations to come—to live lives of purpose, security, and possibility.
Related Read
Part 1 of Series on Bilingual Financial Education: Sammy Rabbit's 2025 Bilingual Strategy: Bringing Financial Education to Underserved Communities
Sammy's Financial Literacy Project Menu. Let's collaborate on 1 financial education project in 2025!
View Current Bilhgual Resources
Sammy Rabbit activity and story books introduce and teach children key financial concepts like saving, earning, spending smart, goal setting, and more. They emphasize "habit" formation and are designed to engage young minds while sparking meaningful family and classroom conversations about money.
Resource for children ages 5 to 8.
Resource for children ages 7+.
Note 1: All Sammy books are available for co-branding and customization.
Note 2: More Sammy resources to be translated in 2025. View Sammy's list of products and services. Volume discounts available.