The following resources provide valuable information to help you prosper and become a "biggest saver"

A Beginner's Guide to Securing Your Financial Future

A personal finance education resource for schools, nonprofit community organizations, financial services providers and consumers to help young people, adult consumers, families and others develop a plan for building personal wealth. Presents an overview of personal wealth-building strategies that includes setting financial goals, budgeting, saving and investing, managing debt, and understanding credit reports and credit scores.

Credit Karma provides a truly free credit scores to consumers direct from the credit bureaus and show how you can save money on your credit cards, loans, mortgage and more!

A free and anonymous service that will help you to bring your debt into focus

This free and anonymous service will help bring your debt into focus. After answering a few questions about your income and current debts, a simple financial analysis will provide a wealth of information – debt to income ratios, debt payment schedules, and suggested personal action strategies to help keep your finances moving forward.

This service is completely anonymous. We will not ask for your name, social security number, email address, physical address, or any other identifiable information. The information we collect about your income and current debts cannot and will not be used to identify you.

A presentation on dreams and goals by Guadalupe Credit Union

A presentation on dreams and goals by Guadalupe Credit Union

This presentation by Guadalupe Credit Union introduces budgeting, and how to use it to achieve financial goals.

This presentation by Guadalupe Credit Union introduces budgeting, and how to use it to achieve financial goals.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) initiated a national financial education campaign in 2001 by launching Money Smart, a comprehensive financial education curriculum designed to help individuals outside the financial mainstream develop financial skills and positive banking relationships. The FDIC has far exceeded its original commitment to reach one million consumers. The FDIC is continuing to work diligently to form alliances with other major entities, including financial institutions, national non-profit organizations, community- and consumer-based groups, and federal, state and local agencies to promote financial education.

NCUF - Investing in your community through credit unions.

Every NCUF Grant Dollar Helps Raise $5 to Benefit Credit Union Members The National Credit Union Foundation's Grants Committee approved 14 Innovation Grants worth a total of $581,746 to be disbursed in 2009.

In addition, the applicants are raising a total of $2,758,432 in "leveraged funds." Leveraged funds include money from partners who will help implement the grants in each credit union's community. This means every $1 in NCUF grant funding is helping to raise another $5 to benefit credit union members!

New Mexico credit unions that have adopted REAL Solutions®.

Credit Unions participating in REAL Solutions® are following the 6th Cooperative Principle: Cooperation Among Cooperatives." Everytime a credit union or league partipates in REAL Solutions®, new innovations become available. You can adopt best practices from others and add your own.

Knowing how to secure your financial well-being is one of the most important things you’ll ever need in life. You don’t have to be a genius to do it. You just need to know a few basics, form a plan, and be ready to stick to it. No matter how much or little money you have, the important thing is to educate yourself about your opportunities.

No one is born knowing how to save or to invest. Every successful investor starts with the basics—the information you’re about to read. A few people may stumble into financial security—a wealthy relative may die, or a business may take off. But for most people, the only way to attain financial security is to save and invest over a long period of time. Time after time, people of even modest means who begin the journey reach financial security and all that it promises: buying a home, educational opportunities for their children, and a comfortable retirement. If they can do it, so can you.

MyMoney.gov is the U.S. government's website dedicated to teaching all Americans the basics about financial education.

Whether you are planning to buy a home, balancing your checkbook, or investing in your 401k, the resources on MyMoney.gov can help you do it better. Throughout the site, you will find important information from 20 federal agencies government wide.