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Youth Financial Literacy & Wealth Building Initiative · Grades 6–8 · Chicagoland

School partnerships

Make financial learning practical, relevant, and easier to use.

Bring structured, age-appropriate money education into classrooms, advisory periods, enrichment, after-school programs, or family events—with formats shaped around your schedule and student needs.

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Middle-school students working together on a classroom budgeting activity

Built for real school settings

Choose the format that fits your students.

Classroom series

Connected lessons aligned to a grade-level schedule and selected skill priorities.

Advisory or enrichment

Short, focused experiences that strengthen decision-making and goal-setting.

After-school cohort

Deeper project work in entrepreneurship, careers, budgeting, and saving.

Family learning night

Interactive stations and take-home tools that invite healthy conversations.

What students practice

Skills that travel beyond one lesson.

  • Make a plan before spending
  • Set and track a realistic goal
  • Compare options and explain tradeoffs
  • Recognize credit and fraud risks
  • Connect careers, income, and preparation
  • Turn an idea into a simple value proposition

Planning questions we’ll ask

1

Which grades and how many students?

2

What time blocks and dates are possible?

3

Which skills matter most right now?

4

What accessibility or language needs should be planned for?

5

Who will coordinate logistics and adult supervision?

6

How should learning and partner feedback be reviewed?

A clear launch path

From first conversation to student experience.

01

Scope

Clarify audience, timing, outcomes, space, and partner responsibilities.

02

Prepare

Confirm activities, materials, adult roles, accommodations, and communication.

03

Deliver & reflect

Facilitate the experience, collect appropriate feedback, and identify next steps.

Tell us what your students need.

Program pricing, dates, and delivery details are discussed after the setting and scope are understood; no availability is implied until confirmed.

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