$200,000 grant awarded to help preschoolers, their families

The YMCA of Metro Atlanta announced Thursday that it has been awarded a two-year, $200,000 grant from the PNC Foundation to teach area preschoolers lessons in spending, sharing and saving and to equip parents to reinforce these lessons at home. PNC provided the funding in support of Grow Up Great, its bilingual program in early childhood education. With the grant, the YMCA will offer children’s activities, games and parent education workshops at four participating Ys. The instruction will be based on the lessons included in “For Me, for You, for Later: First Steps to Spending, Sharing and SavingTM,” a multi-media, bilingual, financial education activity kit that Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit organization behind Sesame StreetTM, created for PNC as part of a continuing partnership in early education.