The Credit-Wise Cats began in 2000 with just 5 student credit ambassadors educating their peers on the University of Arizona campus. The first accomplishment was securing a small $6,000 grant to conduct a speaker series on campus. Since then, the CWC have grown to a team of 15 ambassadors. To date, the CWC have extended their educational outreach efforts to directly impact over 21,000 youth and adults in the Tucson community through thousands of workshops, increasing audience members’ knowledge of personal finance by more than 43%! Over its 10-year tenure, the Credit-Wise Cats program has developed “Credit-Wise” teams on other University campuses and provided case study competition opportunities to over 100 Students In Free Enterprise teams around the country. [Read More]
