{"id":17575,"date":"2012-08-10T16:49:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T16:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=17575"},"modified":"2017-11-14T08:48:57","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T13:48:57","slug":"state-farm-financial-literacy-lab-wins-national-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2012\/08\/state-farm-financial-literacy-lab-wins-national-award\/","title":{"rendered":"State Farm Financial Literacy Lab wins national award."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A national financial planning magazine has awarded its top honor to a Florida International University (FIU) College of Business program that brings financial literacy education to low-income students.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17578\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17578\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17578 size-full\" title=\"Photo shoot for Financial Planning article\" src=\"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Photo-shoot-for-Financial-Planning-article.jpg\" alt=\"Student lab interns Justin Garcia and Christine Montero; Kathy Grau, lab manager; and Shaun Hoyes, associate director, during the photo shoot for the article in Financial Planning\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17578\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Student lab interns Justin Garcia and Christine Montero; Kathy Grau, lab manager; and Shaun Hoyes, associate director, during the photo shoot for the article in Financial Planning<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The State Farm Financial Literacy Lab and Helen Simon, senior instructor and a certified financial planner who brought the program to the lab, were selected by <em>Financial Planning<\/em> as the team winner in its second annual Pro Bono Planners of the Year award. The award recognizes individuals and teams that serve as role models for others, and that bring financial planning services to populations that could not otherwise afford or access planners\u2019 expertise.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/business.fiu.edu\/pdf\/PrintAugust2012\/financial-planning-082012.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A national financial planning magazine has awarded its top honor to a Florida International University (FIU) College of Business program that brings financial literacy education to low-income students. The State Farm Financial Literacy Lab and Helen Simon, senior instructor and a certified financial planner who brought the program to the lab, were selected by Financial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[423,1440,1471,2421],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17575"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29762,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17575\/revisions\/29762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}