Sharon Lechter

AMES, Iowa — Members of the President’s Advisory Council on Financial Literacy will host “Financial Literacy in the Heartland” — a special listening forum with invited statewide leaders in financial literacy — on Tuesday, Nov. 11, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Hotel Fort Des Moines.
The 16-member President’s Advisory Council on Financial Literacy [...]

On Thursday, October 30, Sharon appeared on ABC 15’s Sonoran Living to speak about turning fear to focus in this tough economic time. Below is the post from ABC 15 reporter Jennifer Harrington.
You can’t turn on the television these days without hearing about the economy. The stock market is fluctuating more each day with the [...]

Scores of young girls in 10 different cities across the nation took the first step towards tackling their financial futures under the direction of millionaire women CEOs and entrepreneurs. The second annual “On the Way to Pay Day” event hosted by Sam’s Club and sponsored by the Women Presidents’ Organization and YOUTHpreneur, brought Girl Scout [...]

Entrepreneurs who think of their business as their job have the wrong mindset and risk burnout, President’s Council member Sharon Lechter told a group of Afghan women entrepreneurs Oct. 16 at Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Ariz.
“Many of us think of our business as our job,” Lechter told the women, who came to [...]

The YOUTHpreneur team joined up with the Boys & Girls Club once again to teach teens how to be financially prepared for the future in an event the first weekend of October. The annual Boys & Girls Club Keystone Conference brought scores of local high schoolers together in a series of three workshops to learn [...]

On Tuesday, September 2, Sharon participated in a Financial Services Roundtable during the Republican National Convention as a representative of the President’s Advisory Council on Financial Literacy. This is one of several events Sharon is participating in on behalf of the advisory council while in Minneapolis.
In the picture to the left, Sharon speaks with Kathy [...]

On Tuesday, July 15, the dozen children of the Boys & Girls Club of Metropolitan Phoenix enrolled in the first YOUTHpreneur class went out to check up on the status of their gumball machines. Each of the machines at the four Fry’s store locations had varying amounts of gumballs missing. Depending on the store traffic [...]

PHOENIX (July 2, 2008) – On Tuesday, a dozen kids of the Boys & Girls Club of Metropolitan Phoenix took the first steps to becoming entrepreneurs when they placed their very own gumball machine at four local Fry’s Stores.
The kids, enrolled in the YOUTHpreneur program will monitor their machines over several weeks and see how [...]

On Tuesday, June 24, 10 children from the Phoenix Metropolitan Boys & Girls club began the journey to becoming entrepreneurs. YOUTHpreneur classes began for the kids and will continue for another five weeks. Eventually, 90 other kids will be phased in to the program over the course of the next month.
The 100 children chosen for [...]

WASHINGTON, DC–(MARKET WIRE)–May 28, 2008 — At the inaugural meeting of the U.S. President’s Advisory Council on Financial Literacy, Committee on the Under-Served, now chaired by HOPE founder John Hope Bryant, a decision was made to call on experts and advisors to gather useful information which will ultimately lead to hoped for “best practices” around [...]