For Organizations
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Sign Up Savers
Your organization can help individuals to save by providing them with the opportunity to sign up as a Saver on your own website using the America Saves pledge form or on our website. When someone pledges to save, they make a basic saving plan, and research shows that people with a plan save more successfully. America Saves will be able to track how many individuals pledge to save on your website and report that information back to you.
Direct people to AmericaSaves.org/pledge or contact America Saves to get a pledge form for your website.
If you would like to include the America Saves pledge form on your website, please contact us at save@americasaves.org with:
- Your organization name
- The website you would like to install the form on
- Any local America Saves campaign you are working with
NOTE: The pledge form should live on a page dedicated to the form.
The data we can share with you: Number of people who pledged, zip code, referral source, savings goal, and amount pledged (total and median). You can use this data to describe the savers who pledged through your form, (for example, how many dollars your website visitors pledged to save during America Saves Week).
What we do with the data: We do not share personal information with anyone. If those pledging to save opt-in, we will send them emails and texts. We also use aggregate saver goals and amounts pledged to show the impact of the campaign. (America Saves does not track savings accounts.)
Get Involved
Hold a Competition
The University of Illinois Saves campaign developed, in partnership with America Saves, an internet-based communication and engagement strategy to reach faculty and students by setting up a competition among the university’s three campuses. The pilot program encouraged and motivated students, faculty, and staff to set a personal savings commitment and make a simple plan to achieve it by signing up as a University of Illinois Saver. The campus with the most Savers won the competition. The pilot demonstrated significant results in participation and sustainability. While the materials focus on students, this model can be replicated across many different organizations and audiences.
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Hold a Workshop or Webinar
TARGET AUDIENCE: INDIVIDUALS
Let America Saves be the action component of your financial education efforts. Use our presentations to encourage members, customers, and employees to save effectively. Presentations review why to save, what to save for, and strategies for saving. And they call on individuals to take financial action by pledging to be a Saver with America Saves. When someone pledges to save, they make a basic saving plan, and people with a plan save more successfully.
TARGET AUDIENCE: ORGANIZATIONS
WORKSHOPS
Multiply your outreach to individuals by promoting America Saves to colleagues within your organization, company, agency, or sector.
- How Employers Can Participate in America Saves Week
- How Financial Institutions Can Participate in America Saves Week
WEBINARS
If you are interested in holding a webinar for a network with significant regional or nationwide reach, America Saves can work with you to develop a customized presentation. Please email us to request a webinar.
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Organize a Local Campaign
If you are interested in organizing a community campaign, we are eager to help. America Saves supports affiliated campaigns with a significant amount of resources, materials, and technical assistance, including a support structure for both campaigns and individual savers.
Reach out to America Saves, we are always ready to discuss your plans, answer any questions, and work with you to help develop your campaign.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Our Partners
America Saves' work to improve saving behavior is generously supported by a number of partners.
06.17.2019 By Los Angeles Saves
Los Angeles Saves Partner Spotlight
Los Angeles Saves launched its fifth campaign year in 2019. The campaign was initiated in 2015 by the FDIC Los Angeles Alliance for Economic Inclusion (AEI), which is composed of financial institutions, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies that recognized the importance of saving in its economic inclusion endeavors.
11.19.2019
Summit Follow Up
The America Saves Summit: Attacking the Savings Crisis took place on Wednesday, November 6, 2019 with engaged leaders representing a diverse group of industries, organizations and government agencies.
05.23.2019 By Lindsay Ferguson
Private and Public Sector Leaders Collaborate On America and Military Saves Week 2020
More than two dozen organizations (listed below) with a shared interest in helping Americans save money worked together to design and implement America Saves Week 2020.
01.30.2019 By Faye Griffiths-Smith, UConn Extension|Connecticut Saves
Connecticut Saves Partner Spotlight
Connecticut Saves provides educational programs that benefit savers on a variety of topics, including financial literacy for young people and adults. Through America Saves, Connecticut Saves is able to further enhance its commitment to promoting the importance of saving.
03.24.2022 By Amelia Simons
Arizona Saves Partner Spotlight
Arizona Saves is coordinated by the University of Arizona Cooperative Extension and the Take Charge America Institute, who work in partnership to bring financial education to Arizona communities.
Current Programs
America Saves
TAKE THE AMERICA SAVES PLEDGE
Make a commitment to yourself and create a simple savings plan that actually works! Take the America Saves Pledge and we’ll send you short emails, text reminders, resources, and tools to keep you on track toward your savings goal Become a part of an entire community of Savers. Get started now!
Take the America saves pledge
Make a pledge to yourself and create a simple savings plan that works. Complete the Pledge and America Saves will send you short email and text reminders, resources and tips to keep you on track towards your savings goal. Become part of an entire community of savers. Get started now!
creative ways to fund your savings
Those with a savings plan are twice as likely to save successfully. Taking the America Saves Pledge is a pledge to yourself to start a savings journey and America Saves is here to encourage you along the way. Take the first step toward creating a better financial future. Make a plan, set a goal, and pledge to yourself to start saving, today.
Congrats on completing the pledge!
Veteran Saves
Veteran Saves is a program designed to help veterans and their families build financial stability and security. Coordinated by the non-profit Consumer Federation of America (CFA), Veteran Saves utilizes research-based principles of behavioral economics and social marketing to promote savings behavior and motivate action.
Veteran Saves encourages the entire veteran community to take the Veteran Saves pledge and for organizations to promote savings year-round. Through education, resources, and support, Veteran Saves aims to help veterans and their families improve their financial well-being and achieve their long-term financial goals.
Veteran Saves also works with government agencies, defense credit unions, military banks, and other non-profit organizations to promote savings and debt reduction.
Take the Veteran Saves Pledge
Make a pledge to yourself and create a simple savings plan that works. Complete the Pledge and Veteran Saves will send you short email and text reminders, resources, and tips to keep you on track toward your savings goal. Become part of an entire community of savers. Get started now! Please use a CIVILIAN email address.
Creative ways to fund your savings
Those with a savings plan are twice as likely to save successfully. Taking the Veteran Saves Pledge is a pledge to yourself to start a savings journey and Veteran Saves is here to encourage you along the way. Take the first step toward creating a better financial future. Make a plan, set a goal, and pledge to yourself to start saving, today.
Congrats on completing the pledge!
We are so glad you have started your savings journey and Veteran Saves will be right beside you the whole way! You will soon receive an email from the America Saves team to help encourage you. Find helpful links below to continue researching topics on saving.
A FINANCIALLY CONFIDENT WORKFORCE IS AN ENGAGED WORKFORCE
In a time when workplace culture and organizational values are crucial to the engagement of employees, having a financial wellness program is a monumental step toward ensuring your workers feel well-supported and equipped with tools, resources, and solutions to lessen financial stressors.
We created the America Saves At Work network as an ultimate resource for building workplace savings programs that meet the needs of employees. We do this through:
- Intersectional Access | In this network you’ll find representation from many sectors, including employers, human resources, benefit providers, financial advisor professionals, and policy makers who want to raise the awareness and effectiveness of workplace savings programs.
- Ready to Use Resources | The America Saves Team, in collaboration with network members develop year-round and ready-to-implement financial wellness resources, content, and communications. Employers can incorporate these resources into existing programs, or use them as a starting point for building their workplace saving program.
- Customized Programming | Want a webinar, workshop, or training for your employees? The America Saves Team will work with you to develop a customized financial wellness event with practical strategies that increase financial confidence.
- Technical Assistance and Support | Not sure what step to take to build or expand your workplace saving program? Or maybe you want to be connected with benefit providers or financial professionals that meet a specific need your employees requested. Set up a call with the America Saves At Work team and we’ll provide you with direct support, introductions, and ideas.
- Provider Spotlight Opportunities | If you are a benefits provider or financial professional, you’ll have various opportunities to get in front of employers who are looking for your services
- Networking and Collaboration | Attend webinars and networking events, and collaborate in projects and research that give insight into strategies, trends, and tactics that increase financial stability through workplace savings programs
America Saves
TAKE THE AMERICA SAVES PLEDGE
Make a commitment to yourself and create a simple savings plan that actually works! Take the America Saves Pledge and we’ll send you short emails, text reminders, resources, and tools to keep you on track toward your savings goal Become a part of an entire community of Savers. Get started now!
Take the America saves pledge
Make a pledge to yourself and create a simple savings plan that works. Complete the Pledge and America Saves will send you short email and text reminders, resources and tips to keep you on track towards your savings goal. Become part of an entire community of savers. Get started now!
creative ways to fund your savings
Those with a savings plan are twice as likely to save successfully. Taking the America Saves Pledge is a pledge to yourself to start a savings journey and America Saves is here to encourage you along the way. Take the first step toward creating a better financial future. Make a plan, set a goal, and pledge to yourself to start saving, today.
Congrats on completing the pledge!
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