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• Bankrate.com
  News, tips and advice to compare best credit card deals, mortgage rates, home equity loans, CDs, car loans and money market accounts.


• College Answer
  Learn about the lending process, potential lenders, borrowing responsibly, exploring loan options, and repaying your loans on time.

• Consumer Credit Counseling Services
  Free confidential credit counseling for Vermont and New Hampshire residents: online or in-person.

• EDWISE, Online Financial Planning Guide
  Student loans help place the world of higher education within everyone's reach. While they open doors to exciting careers, they also pose the challenge of financial management.  EDFUND and UCLA developed the EDWISE®  Online Financial Planning Guide in a collaborative effort to provide a useful loan management tool for students.

• Feed The Pig
  Feed the Pig ™, is a new component of the 360 Degrees of Financial Literacy effort which aims to educate Americans about how financial issues affect their lives.


• FastWeb
  The Internet's leading scholarship search service. Helps students make the decisions that shape their lives: choosing a college, paying for college, and finding jobs and internships.

• FinAid
  The custom calculators can help you figure out how much school will cost, how much you need to save and how much aid you'll need.

• Job Corps
  A no-cost education and vocational training program administered by the U.S. Department of Labor that helps young people ages 16 through 24 get a better job, make more money, and take control of their lives.

• Mapping Your Future
  A website whose vision is to be the leading public-service, collaborative provider of free information and services for schools, and for students and families as they consider college, financial aid, careers, and financial literacy options.

• Money Smart
• A financial literacy program that was developed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in conjunction with select partners. Designed for students and adults with little or no banking experience, Money Smart consists of 10 online training modules covering important financial topics such as the basics of banking, successful borrowing, and credit cards.
• National Endowment for Financial Education
  NEFE is the only private, nonprofit, national foundation wholly dedicated to improving the financial well-being of all Americans. The mission of the NEFE is to help individual Americans acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to take control of their financial destiny. NEFE’s mission is grounded in the belief that regardless of background or income level, financially informed individuals are better able to take control of their circumstances, improve their quality of life, and ensure a stable future for themselves and their families. NEFE’s activities place special emphasis on those who face financial challenges that are not being addressed by others. Among our target audiences are youth, low-income individuals and families, and people in difficult or unusual life circumstances.
• National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS)
  The U.S. Department of Education's (ED's) central database for student aid. NSLDS receives data from schools, guaranty agencies, the Direct Loan program, the Pell Grant program, and other Department of ED programs. NSLDS Student Access provides a centralized, integrated view of Title IV loans and Pell grants so that recipients of Title IV Aid can access and inquire about their Title IV loans and/or Pell grant data.
• NH Jump$tart Coalition
  Seeks to improve the personal financial literacy of young adults. NH Jump$tart evaluates the financial literacy of young adults; develops, disseminates, and encourages the use of standards for grades K-College; and promotes the teaching of personal finance.
• PSU Financial Aid Team
  Committed to assisting qualified students who are unable to meet their entire educational expenses from their own and their family's resources. Financial Aid is awarded to students based on need or through merit scholarships for their academic or performing achievements. The three basic types of aid available are scholarships and grants, loans and work opportunities.
• Red to Black
  An outreach of the Texas Tech University Personal Financial Planning program that provides financial planning education. In addition to seminars and presentations, they provide confidential individual financial counseling and planning services.