American Bankers Association (ABA)
ABA provides bankers with the tools to help youngsters gain the necessary skills they need to become financially astute. Programs cover saving, budgeting, and credit, and are designed for students from kindergarten through college.
Building Your Future
The Actuarial Foundation, a nonprofit organization, offers its "Building Your Future," a financial literacy curriculum resource for high school teachers. "Building Your Future" is an Institute for Financial Literacy 2010 Curriculum of the Year Award winner.
CFPB Office on Students and Young Consumers
CFPB offers information for this constituency.
Council for Economic Education
The Council for Economic Education provides personal finance and economics education through classroom curricula and the internet. For example, its Financial Fitness for Life curriculum presents key concepts in economics and personal finance, using a variety of real life examples appropriate to particular age groups.
Financial Aid Toolkit
The Federal Student Aid (FSA) office at the U. S. Department of Education manages the Financial Aid Toolkit, a website that consolidates FSA resources into a searchable online database intended for use by organizations and individuals who interact with, support, or counsel students and families on making financial preparations for post secondary education.
Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy
This organization maintains a clearinghouse of resources that seek to promote financial literacy.
Junior Achievement (JA)
JA brings volunteers into the classroom to make economic concepts relevant for students in grades K-12. JA offers financial literacy programs at every grade level in the classroom and after school. JA partners business volunteers with local classrooms, where JA volunteers facilitate lessons in financial literacy, workforce preparation, and economics. JA trains and prepares all volunteers and provides the lesson plans and materials.
LifeSmarts
The National Consumers League sponsors LifeSmarts, a national program that enlists the support of local partners to help teens become wise consumers. The LifeSmarts game-show style competition is for students in sixth grade through high school. The program complements the curriculum used in many middle schools and high schools and can be used as a rewarding and fun activity for classes, groups, clubs, and community organizations.
Mapping Your Future
This online counseling service that teaches students about borrowing, the basics of loans, loan eligibility requirements, repayment options, and ways to avoid delinquency.
Money Math: Lessons for Life
This is a curriculum supplement launched by a diverse partnership of private companies, nonprofit organizations, and the Treasury Department for students in grades 7-9 that addresses mathematical concepts using real-world financial scenarios.
Money Smart for Young People
This is a curriculum from the FDIC that features four free, age-appropriate curriculums that are designed to promote financial understanding in young people.
National Academy Foundation (NAF)
NAF sponsors the Academy of Finance, a school-to-career curriculum operating in 40 states and 300 high schools, serving over 20,000 students. The OCC partners with schools or school districts in 28 locations across the country to support academies of finance. Banks serve as advisory board members to local affiliates and employ hundreds of students every summer through the academy's internship program.
OCC Community Developments Insights: School-Based Bank Savings Programs: Bringing Financial Education to Students
This edition of the OCC's Community Developments Insights discusses how school-based bank savings programs operate.
Resource Guide for Financial Institutions: Incorporating Financial Capability Into Youth Employment Programs (PDF)
The FLEC's fact sheet is aimed at financial institutions interested in enhancing youth financial capability by partnering with youth employment programs. It maps how and why financial institutions can engage in helping young people achieve greater financial well-being and employment success.
Resource Guide for Youth Employment Programs: Incorporating Financial Capability and Partnering With Financial Institutions (PDF)
The FLEC's fact sheet is aimed at youth employment programs interested in enhancing youth financial capability by partnering with financial institutions. It maps how and why youth employment programs can partner with financial institutions to engage in helping young people achieve greater financial well-being and employment success. This is a companion to the previous Resource Guide.
Stock Market Game
The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association Foundation sponsors the Stock Market Game, an online simulation of the global capital markets designed for students in fourth grade through high school. The game introduces student to economics, investing, and personnel finance.
Studentaid.gov
This is a website from the U.S. Department of Education and the Northwestern Mutual Foundation containing information on obtaining money for higher education, including preparing for college, types of aid, qualifying for aid, applying for aid, and managing student loans.
Teaching Your Kids About Saving and Investing: A Guide for Parents
The Alliance for Investor Education offers "Teaching Your Kids About Saving and Investing: A Guide for Parents," which promotes 10 of the best web-based resources that parents can use to teach their children how to save and invest, even in tough financial times.
Themint.org
This is a website from the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company that provides tools to help parents and educators teach children to manage money wisely and develop good financial habits.
Young Americans Center for Financial Education
This organization promotes the financial literacy of young people. The center offers real life experiences and hands-on programs to help students build life skills, work skills, and financial self-sufficiency.