Alabama
Grantee:	Alabama Cooperative Extension System
Title:	(investor education and protection components of) "Estate Planning Conference: Families Preparing for A Secure Future"
Duration:	September 1 - October 15, 2005
Amount:	$3,500
Summary:	The Alabama Cooperative Extension System will hold 2 estate planning conferences in Alabama in September 2005. The events will bring together experts to educate Alabama residents on all aspects of estate planning including taxes, investments, and long term care. The investor education and protection components of the conferences will include a session on making wise investment decisions and another on investing in general. Investor education will also be included as elements of other conference sessions. The grant from IPT covers only the investor education components of the Estate Planning Conference. Funding for the non-investor education components is provided by other sources.
Grantee:	Alabama Educational Television Foundation Authority
Title:	(investor education and protection components of) "At Your Service Public Television Series"
Duration:	May 1, 2006 – April 30, 2007
Amount:	$15,000
Summary:	The grant will fund investor education and protection segments in the ongoing public television program "At Your Service." The segments are specifically designed to provide investors the knowledge and skills necessary to make educated investment decisions. The show hosts will conduct a seven-minute interview each month with the Commissioner of the Alabama Securities Commission on a variety of securities fraud related topics. A 15-second spot promoting the segment will be produced and aired on the "At Your Service" Program on Alabama Public Television and "The Time of Your Life" Programs on WSFA in Montgomery and WOTM in Birmingham.
Alaska
Grantee:	Alaska Public Telecommunications, Inc.
Title:	"Alaska Investor Protection and Education Initiative"
Duration:	September 2005 - February 2006
Amount:	$80,000
Summary:	Alaska Investor Protection and Education Initiative will provide investor education, protection and research via radio news and information programming. The educational and research activities will also include web-based surveys to allow individuals to share their experiences with investment fraud, the radio broadcast of 600 Investment Protection Tip modules, promotion of Alaska's toll-free fraud report hotline, and promotion of community-based outreach and investor protection workshops conducted by the State of Alaska Department of Commerce, Banking and Securities Division.
Arizona
Grantee:	Arizona Corporation Commission
Title:	"Arizona Investor Awareness Project: Targeting the People the Con Artists Target"
Duration:	January 2005 – December 2005
Amount:	$54,500
Summary:	The Arizona Corporation Commission-Securities Division will implement a statewide mass media campaign, utilizing the most cost-effective radio, direct mail advertising mediums, to promote the agency’s new investor education web site, toll- free number, and educational programs to Arizona’s citizens, particularly those citizens 50 years of age and older. The program will also promote a specific fraud awareness message and attract participants to investor education town hall meetings to be held in areas throughout the state with high concentrations of senior citizens. “Until money grows on trees, verify before you buy!” —A message from the Arizona Corporation Commission's Securities Division.
California
Grantee:	California Department of Corporations
Title:	"Troops Against Predatory Scams Investor Education Project (TAPS)"
Duration:	January 2005 – December 2005
Amount:	$150,000
Summary:	The California Department of Corporations will implement the TAPS Investor Education Project, a program with a goal of educating the military personnel and their families stationed on every one of California’s military installations about how to identify and avoid becoming a victim of inappropriate, harmful and fraudulent investment and financial products. The TAPS Investor Education Project also has the potential to educate the public located in those civilian communities surrounding military installations. The TAPS project will be accomplished through direct contact with military personnel stationed on California military installations. Informational packets will be distributed to all personnel and live educational presentations will also be given on most military installations. Simultaneously, Department of Corporations’ officials will address questions and concerns from military personnel through the call center and take enforcement action in response to complaints received.
Florida
Grantee:	Florida Department of Financial Services
Title:	"Your Money, Your Life 2005"
Duration:	January 2005 – December 2005
Amount:	$200,000
Summary:	Your Money, Your Life (YMYL) is an ongoing comprehensive public education initiative designed to educate Floridians about personal finance issues. YMYL’s primary focus in 2005 is investor education and protection. The key elements for 2005 are: Verify Before You Buy and Avoiding Investment Fraud. YMYL’s main distribution is through an interactive website, provided in both English and Spanish. The web site gives consumers valuable, easy to understand and objective information about investment choices, hot topics and consumer alerts. The campaign will issue radio, television and billboard public service announcements regarding key investment issues and consumer fraud alerts. Additional information will be provided through consumer help lines, brochures, and an essay contest for high school students.
Grantee:	Florida Office of the Attorney General
Title:	"Florida Seniors Against Investment Fraud (FSAIF)"
Duration:	November 2005 – October 2006
Amount:	$66,543
Summary:	Florida Seniors Against Investment Fraud (FSAIF) is a new program of Seniors vs. Crime, a special project of the Florida Attorney General's Office, targeting seniors throughout the state with education and protection messages on identifying fraud, protecting yourself, and reporting fraud. The program will use a grass roots "train the trainer" approach and utilize the Seniors vs. Crime regional directors and Senior Sleuths to give FSAIF presentations in appropriate communities and to disseminate outreach materials. A toll free consumer call center will handle inquiries and direct consumers to the correct state or federal agency.
Grantee:	Family Support Center Activities Council
Title:	"Investor University on Base"
Duration:	November 1, 2006 – October 31, 2007
Amount:	$43,873
Summary:	Investor University on Base (IUB) is a five week investor education program for military personnel living or stationed in the Florida Panhandle. The primary goal of the program is to increase active and retired military personnel's knowledge of saving and investing. The program will have 5 units of instruction: 1) getting started, 2) introduction to financial markets, 3) making a financial and investment plan, 4) investment fraud and 5) home buying. (Note: The home buying portion is not being funded by IPT.) The IUB will utilize existing investor education materials: The Basics of Saving and Investing: Investor Education 2020; MoneyTrack Season One DVD; the 7 investor education booklets developed by IPT and Kiplinger; and U.S. Postal Inspector Fraud Prevention DVDs Investing For Your Future.
Georgia
Grantee:	Atlanta Education Telecommunications Collaborative, Inc.
Title:	"Georgia Initiative for Investor Protection and Education Phase I Metro Atlanta"
Duration:	July 1, 2006 – December 31, 2006
Amount:	$111,750
Summary:	Public Broadcasting Atlanta will undertake a 6 month PSA program that will develop and air Investment tips on radio, develop and air television PSAs to air around MoneyTrack, develop a forum on their website for visitors to share their experiences with investment fraud, and develop and air radio news programming. Programs will direct listeners/viewers to the Georgia Secretary of State's Office and the PBA website.
Illinois
Grantee:	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Title:	"Investor Education: Reaching Out to Underserved Populations"
Duration:	September 1, 2005 - October 31, 2006
Amount:	$86,371
Summary:	Investor Education: Reaching Out to Underserved Populations will enhance the existing Plan Well, Retire Well website to reach English and Spanish speaking women in their 20s and 30s. Enhancements to the website include: adaptation and translation of the current "Choose Investments" section of the website into Spanish, creation of a series of web-video vignettes (short stories) that provide role models and motivate website users to act on new investment knowledge, creation of a new website section focusing on recognizing and avoiding fraud, and promotion of the enhanced sections of the website among underserved populations.
Indiana
Grantee:	Indiana Council for Economic Education
Title:	"Take Stock in Indiana"
Duration:	July 2005 – December 2006
Amount:	$93,771
Summary:	Take Stock in Indiana is a program designed to improve the investor skills and investment knowledge of Indiana students, provide an opportunity for students to practice investment strategies, and increase the amount of investor education in Indiana classrooms. Take Stock in Indiana will focus on five areas of investor knowledge and skills education: 1) the importance of saving and investing, 2) understanding investment vehicles, 3) how to manage investment risk, 4) how to avoid investment fraud, and 5) how to make investment decisions given a range of criteria. There are two components to bringing these knowledge and skills to Indiana students: 1) Teacher trainings comprised of regional workshops, in-services at schools, and conference presentations and 2) Providing teachers with strategies that enable their students to gain experience making investment decisions using the the Indiana Stock Market Simulation, the Learning, Earning and Investing curriculum, and the ICEE’s Investor Education Posters.
Kansas
Grantee:	Extension Education Foundation, Inc.
Title:	"The Women's Investment Education Program"
Duration:	January 1, 2006 - December 31, 2006
Amount:	$20,000
Summary:	The Women's Investment Education Program offers face to face investor education to Kansas women. The program will be offered four times per year, once each quarter, through the Sedgewick County Cooperative Extension System. Each program consists of 6 two-hour sessions, one per week for six weeks. The first hour is lecture and the second hour is facilitated discussion. Topics include getting started, government securities, stocks, bonds, mutual funds and finding a financial advisor.
Grantee:	Mental Health Association of South Central Kansas
Title:	"Communities Against Senior Exploitation (CASE)"
Duration:	January 1, 2006 – December 31, 2006
Amount:	$80,000
Summary:	The Mental Health Association of South Central Kansas will collaborate with the Kansas Securities Commissioner's Office and the TRIAD Council to implement CASE. CASE will provide training in investment fraud awareness to seniors and targeted senior impact groups to increase investor awareness and identify potential investment fraud among seniors with whom these impact groups come in contact. The impact groups will receive extensive training in senior investment fraud in order to have the maximum impact on the greatest number of seniors. The CASE project will provide investment awareness programs consisting of but not limited to: common scams, factors increasing senior vulnerability, and early identification and intervention strategies.
Kentucky
Grantee:	Kentucky Council on Economic Education
Title:	"Investor Education Toolkit for College Freshman"
Duration:	January 2006 - January 2007
Amount:	$35,312
Summary:	The focus of this project is educating college freshmen on the importance of asset building through investment literacy. This project will structure and provide content for integrating investment education as part of an elective offered by most Kentucky colleges. KCEE will convene experts to consider what are meaningful and productive investment strategies for college students and then to structure an appropriate investor education content outline, topic sequence, student activities and visuals. Initial dissemination will target 10 Kentucky Community and Technical College campuses or regional college campuses.
Michigan
Grantee:	Michigan Council on Economic Education
Title:	"Youth Investor Webpage"
Duration:	October 1, 2005 - August 31, 2006
Amount:	$30,000
Summary:	This program will develop a website geared towards Michagan teachers and students that will fit investor education into current Michigan educational standards including: 1) The "benchmarking" alignment of investor education terms and concepts with Michigan social studies and math standards; 2) downloadable lessons in math, social studies, language arts, and technology classes for savings, investor, and retirement education; 3) providing investor education web links; and 4) provide sample Michigan Educational Assessment Program social studies and math questions to prepare students for testing.
Grantee:	The Michigan Division of Securities, Office of Financial and Insurance Services
Title:	"Michigan Investor Minute PSAs"
Duration:	August 1, 2006 - July 31, 2007
Amount:	$119,600
Summary:	The Division of Securities will air undertake a statewide “Investment Minute” radio public service campaign utilizing and customizing PSAs developed by the University of Oklahoma Media Outreach Project for the Oklahoma Division of Securities. The program will consist of a 39-week campaign of radio air-time, during which the “Investment Minute” series will be broadcast over 55 Michigan Radio Network (MRN) affiliates radio stations, of various genre, throughout the State. The messages are delivered as a series and each will be played 3 times during the day it is aired for the first 26 weeks. During the additional 13 weeks (the MRN 100% match) selected messages will be re-broadcast. The goal is to increase awareness of the existence of the Division of Securities in Michigan.
Minnesota
Grantee:	Association of Minnesota Public, Educational Radio Stations
Title:	"Minnesota Diversity Outreach for Investing"
Duration:	October 1, 2005 – May 31, 2007
Amount:	$209,462
Summary:	The Minnesota Diversity Outreach for Investing program will create a series of radio Investor Tips (100 total) specifically targeting Affinity Fraud and Investor Education in 5 different languages, place the Tips in the selected AMPERS radio shows, and provide easily accessible material as support for the on air programs. The main elements of the program are audio (underwriting messages, CDs), visual (brochures, flyers and pamphlets), and in person (forums, interviews, group presentations). The radio shows in which the spots are to be placed are all "in language" programming. The Minnesota Diversity Outreach for Investing program has been approved for a second year.
Mississippi
Grantee:	Mississippi Council on Economic Education
Title:	"Investor Education: Professional Development for Teachers in Mississippi"
Duration:	June 1, 2006 – May 31, 2007
Amount:	$14,350
Summary:	The program will provide 150 Mississippi high school teachers who’ve had previous financial curricula training with the Mississippi Council with a full day of training on investor education and protection. Teachers will be provided with a library of grade appropriate content and teaching materials. Representatives of the Securities Regulators office will present information about investor protection at the workshops. Teachers will have the opportunity to submit their best practices for teaching investor education in their classrooms.
Montana
Grantee:	Montana State Auditor's Office
Title:	"Research, Project Development and Strategic Planning for a Comprehensive Montana Investor Education Outreach Project"
Duration:	August 1, 2005 – December 31, 2005
Amount:	$20,000
Summary:	The program has three elements: 1) develop and complete consumer research survey to determine what messages and messengers are most effective in terms of impacting investor behavior through an education campaign; 2) develop project logo and slogan and test effectiveness; and 3) develop a written plan for implementation of Montana Investor Education Campaign. With relevant statistical research providing the foundation, Montana State Auditor's Office will develop a written plan for the implementation of a comprehensive Montana Investor Education Campaign. The components of the campaign, and the messages and messengers used in the campaign will be driven by the research data and focus group results.
Grantee:	Montana State Auditor's Office
Title:	"InvestSmart Montana—A Consumer Education Program"
Duration:	September 1, 2005 – November 30, 2005
Amount:	$80,000
Summary:	InvestSmart Montana—A Consumer Education Program is a four pronged approach to reach all Montana residents: 1) develop, launch and host interactive investor education website, 2) produce and air television public service announcements; 3) produce and distribute written InvestSmart Montana materials; and organize InvestSmart Montana seminars. The PSAs will be used to educate investors, promote the Auditor’s Office, and promote the InvestSmart Montana materials and seminars. The Montana State Auditor's Office will use paid and donated airtime for saturation in the selected media markets.
New Jersey
Grantee:	New Jersey Bureau of Securities
Title:	"New Jersey Investor Education and Protection Program"
Duration:	September 2005 – September 2006
Amount:	$138,050
Summary:	The New Jersey Bureau of Securities will undertake a multi-pronged statewide effort to reach seniors, adults and teenagers with investor education and protection messages. Outreach methods include: radio and TV public service announcements (PSAs), billboard advertising, direct mail to seniors, Consumer University for teens, and an interactive investor protection website. In addition, they will utilize and distribute printed investor education mini-guides. The outreach will also serve to increase awareness of the New Jersey Bureau of Securities and the services they provide to New Jersey investors.
New Mexico
Grantee:	New Mexico Project for Financial Literacy, Inc.
Title:	"Women in Transition"
Duration:	January 2006 – June 2006
Amount:	$30,000
Summary:	The New Mexico Project for Financial Literacy, Inc., in conjunction with the New Mexico Securities Division, will conduct 24 Saturday morning workshops in New Mexico towns and cities between January 2006 and June 2006. These workshops will provide in depth investor education and protection for Women in Transition such as women who are divorced, widowed, victims of spousal abuse, or inexperienced in managing their own financial affairs. Each two and one half hour workshop will adhere to a curriculum that is to be structured into two segments: The Basics of Investing and Frauds and Scams.
Grantee:	Focus Foundation
Title:	"Affinity Fraud: Preying on Those Who Pray"
Duration:	November 1, 2006 – October 31, 2007
Amount:	$30,000
Summary:	The proposed program will develop and conduct affinity fraud awareness seminars at various ethnic, religious, and civic organizations. The presentations will provide in-depth investment fraud protection and basic investor education on the mechanics of affinity fraud and protective steps that can be taken by investors. The program has received the endorsement of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe and the New Mexico Conference of Methodist Churches.
Oklahoma
Grantee:	Oklahoma Corporation for Investor Education
Title:	"InvestEd™—Students Tracking and Researching the Stock Market"
Duration:	July 2005 – January 2006
Amount:	$110,000
Summary:	The Oklahoma Corporation for Investor Education (OCIE) will deliver an innovative, online investment education program called the InvestEd™—Students Tracking and Researching the Stock Market. The InvestEd™—Students Tracking and Researching the Stock Market will draw upon several core academic subjects while teaching the importance of long-term investing by requiring students to research stocks, gain an understanding of why the market behaves as it does, track long-term portfolio performance and prepare a final, written report describing this process, what they have learned and the final outcome. Specifically designed investor training for teachers will be provided through one week InvestEd™ Summer Teacher’s Institutes and through eight additional one-day workshops throughout the school year. This training will equip them with the knowledge they need to incorporate the InvestEd™—Students Tracking and Researching the Stock Market in their classrooms.
Pennsylvania
Grantee:	Pennsylvania Jump$tart Coalition
Title:	"Investor Education PA"
Duration:	November 2004 – December 2005
Amount:	$187,860
Summary:	First, three "Money Counts" conferences will be held in the spring of 2005 at universities throughout the Commonwealth. Each will be offered as day-long seminars for teachers and other youth educators and will feature a variety of investor education sessions. Sessions will cover such topics as investing basics, avoiding scams, identity theft, and the importance of teaching young people about these topics. Second, the Commission and its partners will conduct a "Money Still Counts" follow-up program for teachers that attended the April 2004 Money Counts workshop in Pittsburgh, PA. Third, the "Consumer University Program" will provide investor presentations for teens. The program will teach teens the time value of money, showing them how the money they mindlessly spend today can be invested to translate into tomorrow’s dollars, and emphasize that time value opportunity is greatest in one’s youth.
South Carolina
Grantee:	Office of the South Carolina Attorney General
Title:	"Check It Out Before Investing"
Duration:	March 1, 2007 - February 29, 2008
Amount:	$80,000
Summary:	The "Check It Out Before Investing" program will develop several radio and television PSAs encouraging South Carolina residents to verify brokers and securities prior to investing. The PSAs will direct viewers and listeners to the South Carolina Attorney General’s website and toll free number for more information. The PSAs will be distributed through a partnership with the South Carolina Broadcasters Association (SCBA) and their Non-Commercial Sustaining Announcement program (NCSA). Through the NCSA, SCBA member and non-member stations will be encouraged to give the PSAs prominent placement and strong repetition.
South Dakota
Grantee:	South Dakota Division of Securities
Title:	"How to Create Financial Independence by Understanding Five Principles of Investing"
Duration:	July 1, 2005 – April 30, 2007
Amount:	$56,000
Summary:	This grant program is in year two of an essay contest for South Dakota high school seniors focusing on 5 components: the value of diversification; investment products and risk; understanding interest; how to choose a broker and an investment advisor; and asking students to discuss their financial plan to obtain $1,000,000 or more by age 65. Every senior will be allowed to write an essay and choose a Sponsor-Teacher.
Texas
Grantee:	Texas State Securities Board
Title:	"Investigate Before You Invest!"
Duration:	May 1, 2006 – April 30, 2007
Amount:	$236,593
Summary:	Investigate Before You Invest! is a multifaceted campaign designed to educate Texans about the basics of investing in securities and detection and prevention of fraud. The program will take place throughout 2006 and include: 1) public school investor education pilot project that will customize existing curriculums to impact Texas high school teachers and students; 2) production and dissemination of radio and television PSAs to run in March, April and May; 3) a series of investor education events; 4) development of new turnkey website www.investoreducation.state.tx.us; 5) enhancement of the office's trade show booth exhibit and participation in exhibits across the State; 6) development of displays to be used at senior centers; and 7) translation of existing Securities Board materials into Spanish.
Utah
Grantee:	Utah Division of Securities
Title:	"Consumer Education Summits"
Duration:	April 2005 – April 2006
Amount:	$30,000
Summary:	The Utah Division of Securities, in conjunction with the Utah Division of Consumer Protection, Utah Attorney General, and AARP Utah, will conduct a series of Consumer Education Summits to educate seniors and younger citizens about the issues of securities fraud and investment education, identity theft, charitable solicitations, and mail/telephone solicitations. The Utah Division of Securities will hold 20-30 events by April 2006 including several on Native American reservations within the state. The summits will range in size from 10 people (in rural Utah) to 200 people (in Salt Lake City).
Virginia
Grantee:	Virginia Division of Securities
Title:	"Investors' Town Hall Meeting"
Duration:	February 2006 – December 2006
Amount:	$39,425
Summary:	The Virginia Division of Securities will put on an Investors' Town Hall Meeting for 500 people in Northern Virginia in Fall 2006. The Investors’ Town Hall Meeting will begin with a general session including a brief introduction by the Securities Administrator followed by a keynote speaker. Two series of breakout sessions will follow, each lasting one hour. Each series of breakouts will offer three or four sessions focusing on a variety of investor education and protection topics.
Washington
Grantee:	Foundation for Private Enterprise Education
Title:	"Investor Education, Washington State"
Duration:	September 2005 – December 2006
Amount:	$140,000
Summary:	Investor Education, Washington State has two components - Investor Education Day for teens and Consumer University for adults and seniors. Business Week will formally develop one full program day of its existing Washington Business Week program into "Investor Education Day" by creating, developing, and including investor education curricula and activities, as well as the coordination and delivery of assemblies for students. The Consumer University Program will provide investor education presentations for adults and senior citizen beginning and current investors at libraries, professional associations and consumer fairs across Washington State.
Grantee:	Bellevue Community College Foundation
Title:	"Community College Investor Education"
Duration:	October 1, 2006 – March 31, 2008
Amount:	$150,000
Summary:	This grant program will develop an investor education and protection program to be taught in community colleges. The program will: compile and adapt the best of investor education curriculum available so that it can be effectively delivered in Washington state community colleges; create a state-wide panel of instructors who will evaluate, review, implement and advocate for the inclusion of this curriculum in community colleges across the state; create a program for training community college instructors; create and publish all materials to learn and teach this curriculum; publicize the training opportunities and the curriculum material; initiate a pilot program to train 20 community college instructors and evaluate the results; train 20 community college educators to teach this curriculum to 1000 students in the first year and an additional 1000 students in the second year; and provide a web-based repository of the curriculum and other resources.
West Virginia
Grantee:	West Virginia Jump$tart Coalition for Financial Literacy
Title:	(investor education and protection components of) "Finance University"
Duration:	January 1, 2006 - July 30, 2006
Amount:	$25,228
Summary:	Finance University is a multi-day training session for 60 WV teachers. The program includes lectures and workshops on financial literacy and investor education topics designed to give them the tools they need to teach the subjects in their classrooms. Investor education topics include: Diversity in Investing, US Treasuries, Avoiding Investment Scams, Investment Management, Mutual Funds, and Investing for College. The West Virginia Jump$tart Coalition will also host the Investor Education @ your library seminar at the event for participating teachers.
Wisconsin
Grantee:	Wisconsin Council on Economic Education
Title:	"Stock Market Simulation"
Duration:	August 2005 – May 2006
Amount:	$20,000
Summary:	The Wisconsin Council on Economic Education will deliver the Stock Market Simulation to K-12 students and teachers in Wisconsin. Through the Stock Market Simulation, student teams invest imaginary money and manage their investments to increase their portfolio value. They compete for small cash awards, and, a possible trip to New York City. Prior to using the Simulation, teachers are required to participate in a teacher-training workshop, where they learn how to use the Simulation, how to use the accompanying curriculum materials, and how to understand the securities markets.
Grantee:	Asset Builders of America, Inc.
Title:	"Communities Learning to Invest and Mobilize for Business (CLIMB)"
Duration:	January 1, 2006 – December 31, 2006
Amount:	$55,000
Summary:	CLIMB will bring investor education to low and moderate income people in Milwaukee, WI through investment clubs, curriculum, in person trainings and a robust investor website. CLIMB will partner with trusted community organizations to enroll low- and moderate-income individuals in investment clubs and provide hands-on investment training through the stock selection and portfolio management process. CLIMB members will acquire solid research, reasoning and investment decision-making skills. Such individuals will be more able to protect themselves from securities fraud, while at the same time contributing to the rational workings of the stock market. The lessons that CLIMB participants learn will be portable: club members can continue the investment and wealth-building process using the education they received as a CLIMB club member even outside the CLIMB environment.