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Financial Wellness Network’s Smart Money MI Kids Read</b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> 2023</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> book is a brand-new book – designed specifically for this program! Free copies of
<u>Owl and Otter, and the Big Yard Sale!</u> are available now for <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfo269kPk_RPJnIfXy50nYyXCzM_iI0Rp5qZrb0WIMYFTAw8Q/viewform">
public libraries to order</a> and use in April 2023 programming.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">As you may know, we've formalized our Michigan Financial Wellness Network for year-round collaboration and meet via zoom each month. (<a href="http://www.mifinancialwellness.org/partners.html">Please join
us</a>!) Partners are providing ongoing non-solicitous financial literacy programming through our MI Financial Wellness initiative. These efforts will culminate with intensified programming April 1-30, 2023! And, we've been hard at work over the summer and
autumn, planning for our beloved Smart Money MI Kids Read program! <br>
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By <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfo269kPk_RPJnIfXy50nYyXCzM_iI0Rp5qZrb0WIMYFTAw8Q/viewform">
completing this request</a> for free copies, you agree to provide money-themed children's programming during Michigan Smart Money Month, April 1-30, 2023, utilizing
<u>Owl and Otter, and the Big Yard Sale</u> for Michigan's Smart Money MI Kids Read, supplemented by your own fun, age-appropriate programming. Librarians are so creative! We hope most libraries will do in-person story time events, online story times, and /
or Grab & Go programs for our young readers, using our NEW, ORIGINAL book, <u>Owl and Otter, and the Big Yard Sale</u>, combined with our coloring sheets, finger puppet plays, songs, rhymes, crafts, and more!
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Kelly Masters<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="mailto:mifinancialwellness@gmail.com">mifinancialwellness@gmail.com</a><br>
<a href="http://www.mifinancialwellness.org/">http://www.mifinancialwellness.org/</a>
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