The purpose of this training is to get students empowered and excited about their personal finances and develop an early, healthy relationship with money. Through this program, students will learn and understand the basic principles of financial literacy.

Students will end the course with a bank account, budget, and participate in our Credit without the Karma program. We accomplish all these with our strategic financial institutions’ partners, other economic development organizations, professional consultants, and through our outreach programs, in house programs, and workshops. Teaching low-and moderate-income students the power of financial literacy is imperative and would help toward their early economic development mindset, which is crucial for entrepreneurship education. Research shows that without strategic financial literacy and entrepreneurship education for this population, economic development is impaired, marginalized and perpetuates income and economic disparity of this population. It is said that information is power. The same thing can be said about financial issues. The more knowledge you have about finances, the more financially armed you will be.