MILITARY BANKING SUMMIT 2025
Helping You Meet Your Financial Education Mission
Meeting your mission of providing top-notch financial education has never been easier or more critical.
In collaboration with AMBA, we’re pleased to offer the Armed Forces Financial Guide, a comprehensive look at finances throughout the military lifecycle.
Now available in a condensed, more cost-effective version, the Armed Forces Guide can be customized for your bank or organization.
Call us at 917-375-6640 or email mwright@lightbulbpress.com
GUIDES TAILORED FOR THE MILITARY LifeCYcle
With Lightbulb guides, your educational outreach can be seamlessly integrated into military programs and community activities. A successful program can help ensure that your bank or organization is front and center when service members, veterans, and their families are making key financial decisions about loans, account services, and retirement and education savings.
All of our guides for the military are available in print and digital formats. They are also available in Spanish-language versions.
Armed Forces Financial Guide is a comprehensive resource that provides guidance on money management and financial planning through each stage of the military lifecycle, from enlistment and promotion to separation or retirement. It provides essential information on military benefits, personal finance and retirement planning, transitioning from active duty to civilian life, and veterans programs.
Veterans Guide: Understanding Your Benefits details the special benefits, programs, and resources provided to veterans and their families by the VA. This information can sometimes be complicated, and is often spread out across several sources.
This guide provides all of the key facts, with multiple contacts and suggested resources for helping veterans access the benefits they are entitled to.
Veterans Home Buying Guide explains how Veterans can take advantage of several special benefits when buying a home, but only if they know what the benefits are and how to access them.
This guide provides all of this information and more, delving into the basics of looking for a home, qualifying for and choosing a mortgage, and home finances once the purchase is complete.
Blended Retirement System: Guide to Military Retirement explains the Department of Defense’s retirement system, which combines a pension with a tax-deferred Thrift Savings Plan. The book provides key information on the plan, and includes helpful background information on how to save and invest to create a secure financial future in retirement.
A Salute to Smart Investing explains the keys to financial success, whether you’re just getting started or a more experienced investor. It provides an overview of savings, using credit wisely, basic investing strategies, common types and warning signs of fraud.
SPANISH-LANGUAGE EDITIONS
Spanish language editions of our military guides can also be customized for your credit union.
HOW LIGHTBULB CAN HELP
We are offering special discounted pricing for AMBA members.
Lightbulb guides, booklets and content are several different formats to align with your own financial preparedness programs and to best reach service members at different stages of their military careers.
OTHER LIGHtBULB PUBLICATIONS
AMBA Member Discounts will also apply to other Lightbulb publications, which you can view here.