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.

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2010 Financial Education Summer Training Recap

On July 20, 2010 a Financial Education Summer Training Program was broadcast from Cornell University to 19 satellite locations. Below are links in a variety of different formats to the presentation materials. 

Morning Session: National Endowment for Financial Education® (NEFE®) High School Financial Training Program® (HSFPP)

NEFE HSFPP Presentation Part 1 (ppt of Diane & Barb's presentation)

NEFE HSFPP Presentation Part 2 (ppt of Sue and Donna's presentation)

Afternoon Session: Hot Financial Topics

Investing Have the Rules Changed? (.pdf of Dave's presentation)

David Anderson, Executive Vice President, Working in Support of Education (w!se)

w!se Financial Literacy Certification Program (program info and registration form)

FoolProof: How the New Credit Card Act is Everything But that Safety Net! (recorded presentation)

Mike Sheffer, FoolProof Director of Education and teacher at Corning East High School

FoolProof Teacher (website link)

Lessons Learned from Debtors in the Courtroom of the Honorable Judge John Ninfo

Hon. John C. Ninfo III, Rochester New York Bankruptcy Court

CARE (Credit Abuse Resistance Education) Program (website link)

IRS Helps You and Your Students Understand Taxes (ppt)

Barbara A. J. Dawkins, Senior Relationship Tax Consultant, Internal Revenue Service

Understanding Taxes (website link)

Special thanks to the following credit unions that served as local sponsors along with our Cornell Cooperative Extension hosts (unless otherwise noted) at these satellite locations:

Alternatives FCU (Finger Lakes) at Tompkins County Cooperative Extension 

AmeriCU Credit Union (Utica-Rome) at Oneida County Cooperative Extension

Capital Communications FCU (Capital) at Rensselaer County Cooperative Extension

Corning Credit Union (Finger Lakes) at Steuben County Cooperative Extension    

Empower FCU (Central) at Cayuga-Onondaga BOCES

Family First FCU (Rochester) at Monroe County Cooperative Extension

First New York FCU (Capital) at Albany County Cooperative Extension

Greater Chautauqua FCU at Chautauqua County Cooperative Extension

Horizons FCU (Southern Tier) at Broome County Cooperative Extension

Lancaster-Depew FCU (Buffalo) at Erie County Cooperative Extension 

Melrose CU (New York) at New York County Cooperative Extension

Nassau Educators FCU (Long Island) at Nassau BOCES

Niagara County's FCU (Niagara) at Niagara County Cooperative Extension

Northern FCU (Central) at Jefferson County Cooperative Extension 

Palisades Federal Credit Union (Westchester-Rockland) at Rockland County Cooperative Extension

Teachers FCU (Long Island) at Suffolk County Cooperative Extension & a second Suffolk    County office bldg. 

Ticonderoga FCU (Adirondack) at Essex County Cooperative Extension

UFirst FCU (Adirondack) at Clinton County Cooperative Extension    

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