Common Cents for Colorado – Making sense of personal money management and budgeting—through trusted information from your hometown library

Helping you reach the peaks of financial wisdom, by
making sense of budgeting & personal money management,
through trusted information from your local library

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About This Site

This site will equip you with the information you need to start your path to personal financial security. Whether you need some basic principles to get you started, or are looking for the best personal finance books out there to deepen your knowledge, we can help.

For librarians interested in personal finance programming at their libraries, we've designed general and specialized workshops that we'd be happy to share. Contact us if you're interested, or have any questions.

Testimonials

I feel more confident and prepared than I ever have; it has changed my life in a big way.

Workshop Participant
Everyone was impressed and excited and ready for more.

Librarian
Learned more in one hour than I did in school.

Workshop participant
Libraries are where it all begins.

Rita Dove
Your library is your paradise.

Erasmus
The only thing that you have absolutely to know, is the location of the library.

Albert Einstein
A library is a hospital for the mind.

Anonymous
Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.

Jerzy Kosinski

Additional Resources

Trusted Websites

Some of the best websites for learning personal financial management

Topics of Interest

Other topics to help broaden your research

”Reads” to Riches

Great books for learning personal finance. Check them out at your local library!

Participating Libraries

Libraries across Colorado with financial literacy programs and resources.

Librarian Resources

Training and materials to help libraries build financial literacy programs.

Contact Us

If you live in a community served by one of our Participating Libraries, we encourage you to visit them or contact their staff for questions. Or, to contact the Common Cents for Colorado Project team directly, complete the form below.

Common Cents for Colorado: assembling the resources of our public libraries to improve lives and livelihoods through financial literacy education.

This program is made possible by a grant from the FINRA Investor Education Foundation through Smart investing@your library®, a partnership with the American Library Association

This site is hosted by the Colorado State Library's CVL Sites program, which is made possible through grant funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) administered by the Colorado State Library

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