Money Week Houston Business and Community Exhibitor Opportunities

Money Week Houston

You may want to consider the opportunity below to provide the community with information about your efforts to educate Houstonians on financial issues or your financial products and services. There is also an opportunity to provide presentations on financial topics during the festival.

Houston READ Commission is gearing up for The McGraw-Hill Companies Financial Fitness Festival, a free event filled with money management activities open to the entire family, on Saturday, April 24, 2010 at the Houston Public Library.

We invite you, or a representative from your company, to join us as an exhibitor in this fun, relaxed event, in which Houstonians receive information on how to buy a home, save for college, plan for retirement, and learn valuable money management strategies in what can be a very confusing economic time.

With your participation, you will be able to reach hundreds of Houstonians to promote your company or organization at no cost by setting up a booth from which you will share printed materials and explain your company’s services with attendees. Most importantly, you will be doing a community service by educating Houstonians on financial issues and solutions.

Serving as the finale of Money Week Houston, The McGraw-Hill Companies Financial Fitness Festival will not only offer exhibitor information on Houston’s financial institutions, but it will also offer intimate financial seminars throughout the day, in which speakers give presentations on their topic of choice. Please indicate if you would like to give a seminar on the registration form attached.

Please complete and return the attached form by e-mail (ann.criner@houread.org) or fax (713-640-8202) to secure your participation.

Houston READ Commission:
Enriching the lives of adult Houstonians and their families by helping them achieve their full potential through literacy, and to contribute to a workforce that will ensure a strong economy and a promising future for Greater Houston.

What We Do for the Community:

• Operate Demonstration Learning Centers that offer basic literacy skills, pre-GED, GED and English as a Second Language courses;
• Provide free literacy training for tutors and instructors at our new Demonstration Training Center at Denver Harbor;
• Forge public/private sector partnerships to sponsor literacy programs and public awareness activities;
• Track the progress of literacy program participants to measure effectiveness of services and help students achieve their goals;
• Maintain a central database on literacy services to identify neighborhoods and groups in need of programs;
• Raise needed resources to support and coordinate literacy services in Houston;
• Maintain the city-wide literacy helpline to place students and tutors in programs; and
• Advocate to local, state and federal agencies and the business community to enhance awareness of the literacy problem in our state and nation.

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