While women play an increasingly important role in making money, many have a knowledge gap when it comes to finances and building wealth.  This can become a real problem, particularly if divorce, job loss, or other major life events happen.  And sooner or later, some of these things do happen. 

Delivered in crisp daily doses, Daily Worth provides genuine and intelligent financial advice.  It strikes me as a nice balance of content and reinforcement.  By that, I mean its one thing to make a New Year’s resolution, and quite another thing to stick to it all year.  For most of us, building up our net worth is a life long process. 

Looking at Daily Worth brought a few questions to mind.  Is a woman’s perspective on finance that different from a man’s?   I wondered how differences in math education affect financial intelligence.  I also wondered if community participation like this has an impact on actually changing behavior.  The best that I could think to do was to send trial copies to a bunch of women that I know and ask them for their comments and feedback on Daily Worth.

I’ll interested in following this along as it develops. 

The Blue Curtain College Fund Foundation raises money to help young people that are interested in sound technology get structured training and put on a college degree path.  The money that is raised is used to help pay for education and guidance counseling.

Please help!  We are looking for 100 people to donate $20 each before year end.

Most of us have an image in our minds of the ideal career path that includes going away to college, getting a degree in four years, then having a successful career and making lots of money.  Perhaps you then go on to graduate school, get an advanced degree and have an even better career and make even more money. Either way, it is all pretty much sorted out by your mid-twenties and you get on with it.

It didn’t work out that way for me, and I suspect that it doesn’t work out that way for most people, but we still keep the image in our minds of the "right path".  I’m not sure that every seventeen year old is ready for college straight out of high school. Many of the kids that are ready for college cannot afford to go off and live on the campus of their dreams.  It is also true that things happen and young adults have family responsibilities that force them to make trade-offs between earning a living today and investing in their long term future.  I suspect that there may be a strong correlation between the percentage of kids that are able to complete college in four years and the stability of their home environment.  If anyone has been involved in studies showing percentages of college graduates with two parents at home, I would love to see it. 

As a society, we have tremendous untapped potential that we can leverage if we can help provide the tools for these people to finish their educations.  Information technology can provide us with an efficient way to support a learners that need to adapt their curriculum and pace to accommodate the need to balance job, family, and education.  They also demand more and benefit more from their education by being able to put it to more immediate use.