EKOMINI™ is available through a variety of different channels and organizations that will contribute to the financial future of the next generation.
1. FOR FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS: A YOUTH SAVINGS PROGRAM FOR FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
Today, many financial institutions have designed savings programs with their young customers. They set them up with a savings account, most often supervised by the parents and provide them with basic information.
EKOMINI™ enriches the experience for these young customers. EKOMINI™ is a turn-key youth savings and financial literacy initiative personalized to a participating financial institution’s brand.
The message of saving, spending, sharing and investing is carried by the participating financial institution. It also gives them the opportunity to promote the causes they support.
EKOMINI™ offers significant benefits for participating financial institutions.
- Creates a new marketing opportunity
- Start of lifetime relationships with young customers
- Strong customer connectivity
- Increases branch traffic
- Builds parent loyalty
- Increases customer share of wallet
- Promotes the causes they support
- Improves financial automation
- Potential new source of income
EKOMINI™ can also be branded for a financial institution with its own custom-designed moneybox and web content specific to its brand.
For more information on how EKOMINI™ can accelerate your youth savings program, click here.
2. FOR RETAILERS : A UNIQUE EDUCATIONAL TOY DESIGNED TO MEET CONSUMER NEEDS
Forward looking retailers will see in this unique, web-enabled toy as an exceptional retail opportunity.
Parents are more and more concerned about the education of their children and are constantly looking for new and exciting ways to engage their children. In fact, market research clearly demonstrated that parents will buy EKOMINI™ and consider it a very useful tool to teach their entire family to save.
EKOMINI™ is a captivating toy for kids aged 6 to 12 that will teach them the basics of money. It is also a cool educational aid for parents to spend time with their kids.
EKOMINI™ becomes an exciting gift idea for grand-parents as well as godparents, uncles and ants. It’s the gift they will naturally pick up.
For more information on how to make EKOMINI™ available in your store, download the EKOMINI™ sales sheet or contact sales@ekomini.com.
3. FOR FOUNDATIONS : LEARNING TO SHARE
EKOMINI™ becomes a window for child-focused causes.
Saving money and sharing money are at the heart of EKOMINI™ principles of financial education. Children are invited to choose a cause and support it.
EKOMINI™ also creates a showcase for established cause-based organizations and foundations so they may explain through a corporate video or information why their cause is important.
As children learn the meaning of money they also discover how important it is to share and donate to causes they believe in.
EKOMINI™ educates kids on various causes and lets them choose or propose a cause they believe in.
Teaching them to evaluate which causes are worthy, and to balance giving with saving and spending is more valuable than simply telling them that they should be generous without providing any guidance.
EKOMINI™ will showcase and promote your cause on its web site. Each accepted foundation will have the space on the EKOMINI™ web site to explain its cause, why it is important to support it, make video webcasts available as well as offer links to its own website.
EKOMINI™ can even integrate within its web platform, content specific to a participating cause.
For more information on how we can promote your cause,click here.
4. FOR LICENSING : EKOMINI™ CAN ADD VALUE TO YOUR BRAND
Progressive marketers will recognize the value that EKOMINI™ can add to their brand.
The EKOMINI™ technology and interactive platform can be personalized to add value to the products you offer to your customers. That might include the custom development of a unique piggy bank or money box to your product configuration or even a new product as an extension to your brand portfolio.
The flexible manufacturing platform that EKOMINI™ has adopted allows us to design and produce different styles of piggy banks to meet the specific requirements of retailers, charitable organizations or financial institutions. The customized product configuration also allows for personalization of the online content.
To find out how EKOMINI™ can bring value to your organization, please contact sales@ekomini.com.
5. NEW PRODUCTS
Build-Your-Own
Available Spring 2010
Kids can also build their very own EKOMINI™ moneybox. They can use their creative skills or one of the Build-Your-Own templates that will be available on the EKOMINI™ web site.
The Build-Your-Own version of EKOMINI™ will includes the EKOMINI™ coin reader, USB cable and unlimited access to Ekominiville, the fun, interactive web platform.
Internet access and batteries are not included.
6. SCHOOLS
Opportunity for teachers
The recession, the consumer society, money, our children’s education.
How do we respond to the concerns parents have of talking about money with their children? How do we teach children to set goals and achieve them in a practical manner? What tools do you have as a teacher to assist you in these tasks?
Ekomini is a tool that helps children aged 6 to 12 better understand the concept and value of money—skills that will last them a lifetime. Ekomini teaches the basics of saving money and includes guidelines for earning and saving, setting goals, learning to share and donating and investing.
Ekomini is a modern-day piggy bank that connects to the Internet. Through interactive games and story-telling, Ekomini combines lessons in mathematics discovery, environmental awareness, savings and economics.
Ekomini is different from other games and educational software because it’s a real life experience for children: the results are not virtual but real! A child does not save money on a notebook or on a board game, but in real life. It doesn’t provide for virtual goods, but real items. Girls and boys do not win imaginary bicycles through a game, but real bikes on which they can go ride with their friends.
Ekomini is a great program for all: It teaches children how to save, spend, give or invest with real tools in real situations. Children become aware that money is a tool and truly understand its value; they learn the price of the products they want and how to plan in order to purchase them. They learn what they have to do in order to get them and how long it will take to do it. They set their goals and reach them. Ekomini makes them aware of the needs of others and awakens them to compassion for the less fortunate. Finally, they discover how to invest in the short, medium and long term depending on the goals they set.
In short: Ekomini is designed for all children from kindergarten to the end of primary education.
Simultaneously, an effective interactive tool is made available to parents in order to monitor the in-game activities of their children, identify progress issues and inform them of ways to solve them.
Overview
Goal: To develop children's awareness to the value of money, while providing learning tools for:
- Finding income sources (earn money);
- Saving money;
- Being honest and knowing how to make the distinction between a proper and improper source of income;
- Being aware to recycling and to the environment;
- Calculating and managing assets;
- Budgeting;
- Acknowledging and correcting errors;
- Being sensitive to the needs of others (being compassionate and giving);
- Fulfilling a wish in purchasing that for which they saved their money.
AN INVITATION TO TEACHERS (PRIMARY LEVEL)
Ekomini cordially invites you to participate in its financial literacy program. Every month, one participating primary-level class will receive an Ekomini moneybox for each of its students (maximum 30 units). The winning class will be selected at random from all participating entry ballots.
We wish to test the first phase of the program with schoolchildren in various parts of Canada to better understand the needs of our children and plan the continuation of our activities.
If you are interested, please complete the above form.
This offer is completely free—we assume all equipment costs (the moneybox and the USB cable that each student in your class will be able to bring home), the subscription fees to Ekominiville and the Ekomini software on the Web.
We look forward to working with you on this important initiative for our children's financial future.
The Ekomini Team
