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The 2024 Annual Awards at Great American Ball Park
We had a spectacular night at Great American Ball Park for our 2024 Annual Awards! A huge thanks to the Cincinnati Reds for their collaboration, particularly our fabulous keynote panel including Reds Senior Vice President of Baseball Operations Karen Forgus, Reds President of Baseball Operations Nick Krall, and Reds President Phil Castellini. And having Reds legend George Foster there made the night even more special!
Congratulations to all our award winners, including Deer Park Community City Schools as our Susan Sargen Student Enterprise Program (StEP) District of the Year, Colette Smith from the Muskingum Valley ESC as our Personal Finance Educator of the Year, our friends from Messer Construction Co. as our StEP Volunteers of the Year, Bill Neyer as our Economic Empowerment Award winner, and Western & Southern as our Research Impact Award winner!
Thanks once more to our amazing sponsors as well! Your support means we’ll be able to bring financial and economic education to even more students next year.
Weren't able to attend the Annual Awards? Click play to watch the full program!
On behalf of The Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky African American Chamber of Commerce (AACC), the Center’s research team released the results of its study, “The Economic Impact of Black-owned Businesses in Southwest Ohio Communities.” Our analysis found the economic impact of Black-owned businesses on our region totals more than $2.1 billion dollars. The impact of Black-owned Businesses in Southwest Ohio communities is responsible for directly employing 5,914 people with more than $306 million in earnings throughout the Cincinnati Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA).
In 2021, on behalf of the AACC, the Center’s research team conducted the first study of its kinds in the nation that quantified the economic impact of Black businesses, setting a benchmark for this analysis.
With the right information, you make better choices. We empower students with high-quality financial education, and provide research clients with the data analysis they need to drive decision-making.
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| $15 | supports one child for an entire year of learning in our StEP program |
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| $50 | pays for two student teams to participate in the Stock Market Game |
| $100 | covers the cost of economic and financial education lessons and materials for one classroom |
| $500 | pays for a teacher to attend professional development sessions to learn how to integrate economics into the classroom |
| $5000 | provides the materials for one elementary school to participate in our StEP program for an entire year |
We’ve been in service to educators for more than 40 years, providing them with high-quality workshops, book clubs and more.
Looking for some fun, bite-sized financial literacy? We’ve created a new video series, featuring some of your favorite puppet characters from our original, Emmy-winning $martPath videos. Our new $martPath Snacks videos are short, but just as engaging, and they also deliver early money concepts to an audience of younger children.
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Centering Black Women’s Upward Mobility in the Cincinnati Region
“The economy isn’t equal for everyone”. That’s how our research team led off its presentation on the findings of our work on behalf of The Women’s Fund of Greater Cincinnati Foundation to assess Black women’s economic mobility in our region.
Through their analysis, Center researchers found that in 2018, Black women held 10% of jobs in the five lowest-earning occupation groups, but less than three percent of jobs in the five highest-earnings occupation groups.
