Increase your personal finances through our series of financial literacy classes provided in partnership with Utah State University Extension-Empowering Financial Wellness. All of these classes are free to attend and may require registration. Below you’ll also find new personal finance books and online financial resources available for free with your library card.
USU’s Empowering Financial Wellness has a mission to empower women, limited income households, and community educators across Utah to make informed financial decisions to serve their own life goals and improve financial wellness through (1) developing innovative resources, (2) offering timely educational opportunities, and (3) increasing awareness of personal finance best-practices.
These events are free to attend.
The Experts
Meet Kelan Combe and Vinceza Vicari-Bently are USU’s financial experts who will be teaching the below classes.
Vincenza Vicari-Bentley is an Accredited Financial Counselor and Program Coordinator for the Empowering Financial Wellness program with Utah State University-Extension, based in Salt Lake County. Vincenza is a proud military spouse, and she also earned her MBA with a focus on Marketing and Finance. Since 2015, she has been working with individuals and families providing financial counseling as well as teaching a variety of personal finance topics. She is passionate about helping others and empowering them to understand and improve their finances.
Kelan Combe is a Program Coordinator for the Empowering Financial Wellness Program, based in Salt Lake County. He has earned his BA in Family Sciences and Spanish from Brigham Young University and has been working in the financial industry helping people better manage their finances for 3 years. He is an experienced trainer and teacher in both English and Spanish and has a passion for helping others learn. He is also an avid enjoyer of Nintendo games, guitar, and the Great British Baking Show together with his wife and kids.
Upcoming Classes
January 22, 6pm: Pyramid Schemes
Join us to learn about:
- What’s an MLM?
- What’s a Pyramid Scheme?
- What’s the difference between an MLM and Pyramid Scheme?
- Warning signs to watch for.
February 19, 6pm: Maximize Income and Minimize Expenses
You have goals to achieve, and you want your budget to reflect what matters most to you in life. Establishing attainable goals and developing new spending and saving habits can help you increase and maximize your income and minimize expenses. This will allow you to put even more money towards the things that matter most to you. The tools we discuss in this webinar will help you do just that!
- Establishing goals that set you up for success.
- Adjusting your daily spending.
- Increasing your income.
Recommended Books
In Beyond Getting By, the women behind The Financial Diet teach you how to create (and pay for) a life you truly enjoy-and that you can be proud of. They show you how to push beyond what society tells you will make you happy to determine what you actually want, with specific advice and interactive exercises.
Welcome to the Life Audit, an exercise in self-reflection that helps you clear the cobwebs of noisy, external goals and distractions, and revisit or uncover the real themes and core values that drive and inspire you. Think of it as spring-cleaning for the soul.
When Vivian Tu started working on Wall Street fresh from undergrad, all she knew was that she was making more money than she had ever seen in her life. But it wasn’t until she found a mentor of her own on the trading floor that she began to understand what wealthy people knew intuitively–the secrets to beating the proverbial financial game that has, for too long, been male, pale, and stale.
by Connolly, M. T.
In The Measure of Our Age, elder justice expert and MacArthur “genius” grant recipient, M.T. Connolly investigates the systems we count on to protect us as we age. Weaving first-person accounts, her own experience, and shocking investigative reporting, she exposes a reality that has long been hidden and sometimes actively covered up. But her investigation also reveals reasons for hope within everyone’s grasp.
Online Library Resources
Consumer Reports
Consumer Reports provides ratings and reviews, recommendations, and buying advice for thousands of products including appliances, and more.
Linkedin Learning
Linkedin Learning provides an extensive library of training videos that include many personal finance courses.
Morningstar
Morningstar provides data on approximately 456,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, and more. Learn more.
Value Line
Value Line offers access to publications covering stocks, mutual funds, options, and convertible securities, as well as special situation stocks.