May 12^th, 2025 – Bel Air, MD — Har-co today announced a partnership with Greenlight ® Financial Technology, Inc.(“Greenlight”) to better serve families and help the next generation build healthy financial futures.

Starting today, Har-co customers will have free †access to Greenlight’s award-winning family finance app, available through the Greenlight for Credit Unions program. 91% of kids and teens believe they need financial knowledge and skills to achieve their life goals, and 94% of parents agree.* Still, only 35 states require a personal finance course for students, and teens score an average of 64% on the National Financial Literacy Test, showing a clear gap in financial education that is accessible and effective. Parents also rank personal finance as the #1 most difficult life skill to teach their children with 81% saying they wish they had more financial education tools and resources.** Greenlight offers a debit card and app that teaches kids and teens how to earn, save, give and spend wisely – all with parental supervision. Using the Greenlight app, parents can quickly send money, automate allowance payments, manage chores, set flexible spending controls, get real-time notifications of all transactions, and more. Kids get hands-on money management experience, along with access to Greenlight Level Up™, an in-app financial literacy game with a best-in-class curriculum, educational challenges, and rewards.

"In 2024, we reinforced our commitment to financial literacy for all children of Harford County through our award-winning Growing Up Har-co products." stated Alex Coulson, Chief Marketing Officer of Har-co Credit Union. "The next evolution of that lineup is this partnership with Greenlight. Through this partnership we are able to offer products that will help the parents of Harford County teach their children how to save and spend wisely."

Customers can receive a free* Greenlight subscription by registering through greenlight.com/harco and adding their Har-co account as a funding source. † Har-co members are eligible for the Greenlight SELECT plan at no cost when they connect their Har-co account as the Greenlight funding source for the entirety of the promotion. Subject to minimum balance requirements and identity verification. Upgrades will result in additional fees. Upon termination of promotion, members will be responsible for associated monthly fees. See terms for details. Offer ends 2028. Offer subject to change and partner participation. *Survey insights were collected by Greenlight through a Research scape survey fielded between March 22 and March 24, 2024,among 2,310 respondents in the U.S., split between kids and teens ages 10-19and parents of 10-19 year old's. **Survey insights were collected by Greenlight through a Research scape survey fielded between February 9-12, 2023, among 1,034U.S. respondents, all of whom were working parents of 8-18 year old's.

Members can visit greenlight.com/harco or harcocu.org/greenlight to sign up!

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About Har-co Credit Union - Har-co is a credit union serving all of Harford County. Membership is open to anyone who lives, works, worships, attends school or has immediate family living in Harford County.

Har-co was founded in 1955 originally as an educational credit union serving the needs the educators and students of Harford County Public Schools. In 2018, Har-co expanded to offer their services to the entire community of Harford County. Har-co was voted as the Best Bank/Credit Union and Best Mortgage Lender in 2022 and 2023 by Harford Magazine. 

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