Money Smart Colorado Week Kickoff!

Last night I attended the kickoff dinner for “Money Smart Colorado Week” at the Federal Reserve Bank in Denver.  Money Smart Colorado is an organization that promotes financial literacy across all ages and ethnic groups in Colorado.  New Direction IRA is proud to be one of the partners in this effort and as such will be teaching classes about self directed retirement investing and how it relates to saving money and investing for the future.

The evening was very upbeat mostly because of the collection of passionate people who are the Money Smart organization and made this coming week a reality.  The panel of speakers who presented covered a spectrum of professionals:  educators, library/information science, financial planners organization, and community outreach.   Also represented on the panel was The Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Literacyâ, as stated in their About Us page “an organization of organizations that share an interest in advancing financial literacy among students in pre-kindergarten through college”.

One of the high points of the evening was the key speaker Todd Salzman, retired after 30 years in the US Air Force, now relationship manager for Ent Credit Union.   He is a powerful and engaging speaker.  The title of his talk was “Making Your Financial Flight Plan”.  A great analogy and a great talk aimed at helping people plan for their financial future.  A humorous and thought provoking presentation, I’m sure everyone there would agree.

I’m glad we’re part of the Money Smart Colorado effort and have the opportunity to spread the word on self direction and true diversification of retirement accounts.  New Direction IRA will be providing relevant classes and we are looking forward to being a partner in this exciting endeavor, financial literacy now and in the future!.