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Rick Roman
GiveAshare LLC
866-291-9918
rroman@GiveAshare.com
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GiveAshare.com and Good Choices Inc. Announce Collaboration to
Improve Kid's Financial Literacy
Portland, OR,
September 24, 2008 - GiveAshare.com and Good Choices
Inc. have announced a teaming relationship aimed at
improving kid's financial literacy. The inability to
save and manage money is a growing problem in the U.S.,
especially among kids. In the Jump$tart Coalition’s
biennial survey of financial literacy, high school
seniors failed miserably, answering only 48 percent of
the questions correctly, down from 53 percent in 2006.
As the first step in the collaboration, Good
Choices Inc. has incorporated GiveAshare.com's newly
published book entitled I'm A Shareholder into their
teen financial literacy program. Good Choices Inc is an
Atlanta-based, non-profit organization 501(c)(3) that
provides financial literacy programs for kids and adults
in the Atlanta area that historically have not fully
participated in our country's financial markets.
GiveAshare.com (owned by Portland, Oregon-based Leading
Edge Gifts LLC) sells real one-share stock ownership in
over 80 world famous companies as an unusual and
educational gift and has just published a book that
teaches kids about money and stocks in a fun way titled
I'm A Shareholder. In addition to using the book, Good
Choices Inc. is promoting a share of stock as a gift
that can educate and empower kids.
"We are very
proud to team with an organization like Good Choices
Inc. that has a proven record over 11 years of
creating novel programs to help teach kids. We truly
believe that the experiences that accompany real stock
ownership, along with our book, forms a powerful way to
teach kids." said Rick Roman, one of the founders of
GiveAshare.com and author of I'm A Shareholder. For
additional information on the GiveAshare.com / Good
Choices Inc. collaboration, contact Rick Roman.
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ABOUT GOOD CHOICES INC.
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Good Choices, Inc. was established in 1997 as a non-profit 501(c)(3) to
provide creative financial literacy programming for children and adults in
the Atlanta area that historically have not fully participated in our
country's financial markets. Among other things, the company promotes
shares of stock as a gift that can educate and empower kids, promotes
savings by operating youth banking centers, offers investment training
programs for kids, and provides real life experiences with trips to places
like the New York Stock Exchange and the Federal Reserve Bank.
ABOUT GIVEASHARE.COM -
GiveAshare.com is owned by Leading Edge Gifts LLC. and offers real
one-share stock ownership in over 80 world famous companies like Disney,
Starbucks, and Google as an unusual gift for kids and adults. A
person can buy a share of stock as a gift in two minutes with a credit card.
The authentic registered stock certificate is framed and the recipient is
entitled to anything a real shareholder gets like annual reports and
declared dividends. In addition, the company has published I'm A
Shareholder which is the ONLY book that is intended to be used with
a share of stock whether from GiveAshare.com or a stock broker.
the company believes that the book and a share of stock is the secret
formula for teaching kids the basics about money and stock.
ABOUT LEADING EDGE GIFTS LLC.
- Leading Edge Gifts LLC. Is a privately held company in Portland,
Oregon. The company’s mission is to create radically unique gift ideas that
are fun to give and even more fun to receive. Founded in 2002 with the
launch of GiveAshare.com, the company built on its success with the launch
of GiveAcaricature.com in 2005, MyFaceIcons.com and GiveAurl.com in late
2007. Leading Edge Gifts LLC has a built a reputation of delighting
customers with innovative gifts and superior service. As a
result, the company was the 5th fastest growing on the Portland Business
Journal’s Top Women-Owned Businesses.
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