Cooperative Federal is the leading provider of financial education in the Syracuse area - in fact, we wrote the book on it!

We are very happy to announce the publication of our financial literacy textbook for high school aged youth called, "Life Skills: Planning Your Financial Future!"

The Post Standard interviewed Thom Dellwo, Financial Education Coordinator at Cooperative Federal for their special "Choices" section. All the articles focused on what students need to know beofre the leave for college. The story was printed on April, 3rd 2007. Here is an excerpt...

Q: What are problems young people often face when it comes to finances?

Members have alerted us recently that they have received calls and emails from suspicious sounding "credit unions" asking for credit card numbers and other personal information. These "fishy" credit unions may be a phishing scam intended to collect information through email and phone calls!