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Oklahoma Money Matters & AmeriCorps
How We Fit Together

AmeriCorps Themes
AmeriCorps programs share common themes that are reflected in acceptable service activities. These service threads include:

  • Citizenship. AmeriCorps wants members to acquire the knowledge, skills and values necessary to be active, engaged citizens in local, state, national, and international communities.

  • Knowledge. AmeriCorps believes that to function effectively as citizens, members must be informed about individual and collective rights and responsibilities, community issues and community resources.

  • Diversity. Engaging diverse members and staff in common service builds strong communities. AmeriCorps promotes inclusion of men and women of various races, ethnicities, education levels, socioeconomic backgrounds and physical and mental abilities.

  • Support for Community Organizations. AmeriCorps seeks to sustain the programs and activities of secular and faith-based organizations who meet the immediate needs of our citizens in communities across the nation.

The OKMM-EAP Connection
OKMM-EAP’s objectives are exceptionally compatible with AmeriCorps goals and themes.

  • OKMM-EAP gets things done by training and placing members throughout Oklahoma to educate our citizens in personal finance, consumer credit and student financial aid.

  • OKMM-EAP strengthens communities by bringing together Oklahomans of all ages to combat fiscal illiteracy in the state. OKMM-EAP members identify and address the financial education needs unique to each community.

  • OKMM-EAP encourages responsibility by developing members’ leadership skills, facilitating members’ lifelong commitment to community service and educating Oklahoma consumers.

  • OKMM-EAP expands opportunity by providing members a foundation of financial literacy that will improve their long-term fiscal health and inform their economic decision-making. Members who complete the year of service develop invaluable life skills and marketable job skills.

  • OKMM-EAP incorporates citizenship by helping members and beneficiaries recognize the connection between being financially responsible and being a responsible citizen. Participants learn the relationship of informed voting, educated consumer behavior and personal responsibility as qualities of good citizenship.

  • OKMM-EAP expands members’ knowledge of fiscal principles through effective training and the opportunity to teach the personal finance, consumer credit and financial aid curricula, and builds beneficiaries’ skills by providing targeted financial literacy instruction that is customized to meet local needs.

  • OKMM-EAP encourages diversity by striving to be inclusive in the selection of field sites and members. Entities or individuals that discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, age, religion, disability or status as a veteran in policies, practices or procedures are ineligible to participate in OKMM-EAP.

  • OKMM-EAP supports community organizations by providing financial literacy education for a wide range of service populations and assisting partner agencies’ efforts to recruit additional volunteers.