Impact
We are all about making a positive impact on students' lives through financial education. Check out the information below to see how we've done the past few fiscal years.
SMMC Outreach Chart
This chart illustrates the number of students contacted via digital campaigns, Money Mentors referrals, and live webinars from fiscal years 2020 to 2024.
The number of contacts we've made through digital campaigns or activities, Money Mentors referrals, or live webinars over the last several fiscal years has varied. For reference, our fiscal years start July 1 and run through June 30 of the following calendar year.
Fiscal Year Outreach Data
SMMC outreach by type for fiscal years 2020–2024
| Fiscal Year |
Digital Campaign or Activity |
Money Mentors Referrals |
Webinar Attendance |
| 2020 |
3,287 |
1 |
186 |
| 2021 |
4,452 |
61 |
743 |
| 2022 |
4,336 |
37 |
620 |
| 2023 |
2,424 |
32 |
526 |
| 2024 |
2,600 |
37 |
494 |
E-newsletter Engagement
We send bi-weekly e-newsletters to students, employees, and parents who subscribe. The chart below shows the number of e-newsletters sent to individuals across our three subscription groups throughout FY2024, which runs from July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024.
E-newsletters Sent in FY2024
Graph showing the number of e-newsletters sent to students, parents, and employees from July 2023 through June 2024.
Current Subscriber Counts (as of November 2024)
- Students: 28,258
- Parents: 1,052
- Employees: 243
Financial Literacy Digital Badges Program
We've been facilitating the University of Illinois Financial Literacy Digital Badges Program since fall 2014. Quizzes completed during fiscal year 2024 were distributed across the Badges courses as follows:
Badges Quizzes Completed in FY2024
Graph displaying the number of quizzes completed for each Digital Badges course in FY2024: Borrow, Earn, Protect, Save, and Spend.
- Borrow Badge: 521
- Earn Badge: 109
- Protect Badge: 53
- Save Badge: 55
- Spend Badge: 58
*The Borrow Badge course does not include quizzes for our semiannual financial literacy campaigns: Understand Your Refund and Know What You Owe. Because the Borrow course includes campaign-based, targeted educational interventions, this increases enrollment and exposure to all of the other quizzes in the course. This is why there are so many more completed quizzes for the Borrow course compared to others in the Financial Literacy Digital Badges Program.
Campaign Quiz Completions
Chart showing completed quizzes for the Understand Your Refund and Know What You Owe campaigns in fiscal year 2024.
- Understand Your Refund: 1,663
- Know What You Owe: 206
These results include unique individual responses for campaigns run in the fall and spring semesters.