The National Endowment for Financial Education® (NEFE®) offers the award-winning High School Financial Planning Program® (HSFPP), a free and flexible curriculum that has been proven to change students’ knowledge, actions and self-confidence about managing their money.
Money & Me is a hands-on experience that teaches teenagers the basics of money and how to make it work for them. The program covers budgeting, credit advantages and pitfalls, savings and checking accounts, how to save for a big purchase and investing for the future.
The brass|Student Program provides high schools with access to brass|Magazine, a personal finance publication written by young adults that delivers relevant content for classroom discussions and activities. The program also includes online resource centers for teachers and students, and the Credit Unions for College scholarship database.

LifeSmarts…the Ultimate Consumer Challenge is a game show style competition for teenagers designed to better prepare them as responsible consumers in today’s dynamic marketplace. Questions cover personal finance, consumer rights and responsibilities, health and safety, technology and the environment.

Biz Kid$ is a fun, 30-minute PBS television series for kids about making and managing money. It highlights young entrepreneurs who have turned hobbies into successful businesses, raised funds for good causes and much more.

The Kid’s Cash Kit & Caboodle includes practical, hands-on tools to teach children and their families the basics of money management using the concepts of saving, spending and sharing.

Who Are You? Identity Thieves Really Want to Know! is an educational program that utilizes marketing materials, train-the-trainer workshops and instructive sessions to help credit unions and community organizations inform their members about the dangers of identity theft.

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Kid’s Cash Kit and Caboodle


Want to Learn About Managing Money?

If you do, the Kid’s Cash Kit and Caboodle has moneyboxes and a lot of fun activities that teach you how to save, spend, and share money. These are skills that will become very important to you as you grow older and enter high school and college.

How to Get the Kit and Caboodle

Kids Cash Kit and CaboodleTo get a Kid’s Cash Kit and Caboodle, tell you mom or dad and your teachers at school about this Web site.  Also, tell you mom or dad and teachers to contact their local credit union and tell them about the Kid’s Cash Kit and Caboodle materials, and about this Web site.

Click here to learn more about What’s in the Kit and What is the Caboodle.

Using the Kid’s Cash Kit and Caboodle program is simple—everything is included in the kit.  There are sturdy moneyboxes to help you save, spend and share your money. And, there are booklets with fun activities to help you learn basic money management skills.