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MISSION 2030
By 2030, all U.S. high schoolers will be guaranteed to take at least a one semester-long Personal Finance course before graduation.
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Our mission is ambitious: by 2030, every U.S. high school student will graduate having completed at least a one-semester course in personal finance. But this journey began humbly in 2010 at just one school, Eastside College Prep in East Palo Alto.
I’m an entrepreneur driven by a passion for education. In 2010, I volunteered to design and teach a personal finance program from the ground up at Eastside. Seeing firsthand the multigenerational impact that personal finance education could have on students and their families inspired me to reach beyond that single classroom.
In 2014, I co-founded Next Gen Personal Finance (NGPF) with the belief that all students deserve access to high-quality personal finance instruction. From day one, we made a clear commitment: every NGPF service would be offered at no cost, ensuring that financial barriers would never stand in the way of learning.
Since then, NGPF has grown into a small but mighty team of dedicated educators and advocates. Our former classroom teachers create engaging, modern curriculum that reaches over 127,000 educators nationwide. Our comprehensive professional development programs empower any educator, regardless of their background, to confidently teach personal finance. Meanwhile, through the tireless work of our advocacy affiliate, we’ve helped ensure that three out of four U.S. high school students are now guaranteed to take a personal finance course.
Together, we’re making financial education a reality for all.
Tim RanzettaCo-Founder
CURRICULUM
Our curriculum covers 11 units, including Investing, Taxes, Saving, Behavioral Economics, and Paying for College. Our turnkey courses include Trimester, Semester and Full-Year courses for both high school and middle school students. NGPF resources use hands-on, real-world applications that build student financial capability. Best of all, the curriculum is provided at no-cost. Read more about our design philosophy.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Every student deserves a confident and highly qualified personal finance teacher. Educator participation in NGPF Professional Development moves us closer to that goal. We offer PD ranging from one-hour virtual workshops to asynchronous On-Demand modules to in-depth Certification Courses.
The emphasis is on building teacher content knowledge, modeling various NGPF resources, and encouraging teacher collaboration. PD is offered through NGPF Academy, a program that rewards and recognizes the 19,000+ teachers who have participated in NGPF professional development over the years.
ADVOCACY
Our advocacy efforts have a single-minded focus on increasing access to financial education by partnering with teachers, schools, districts, and states. We develop tools to support these passionate advocates, including a Step-by-step Process for them to expand access locally, an annual State of Financial Education report, and two documentary films: The Most Important Class You Never Had, Real World Class, and The Most Important Class: Mission, Movement, & Momentum.
We recognize policy and implementation is integral to increasing access and have developed an affiliated organization, NGPF Mission 2030 Fund, to advocate for personal finance education in state legislatures across the country. You can see the progress of those efforts on our Bill Tracker and LIVE U.S. Dashboard.
PARTNERSHIPS
To ensure students benefit from the life-changing promises of personal finance course policies, successful implementation is critical. NGPF supports states and districts with a dedicated Partnerships Team that provides guidance, best practices, and tailored PD opportunities.
127,000+ teachers
530,000+ hours
80,000+ hours
2.1M
Visitors to the NGPF website last year
More than
11M
plays on NGPF Arcade games last school year
Last year, teachers invested
80k+ hours
in elevating their knowledge and confidence via NGPF PD
85%
of U.S. high school students attend a school with at least one teacher with an NGPF teacher account
84%
of U.S. high school students attend a school with at least 1 teacher with an NGPF teacher account
Demand for financial education continues to grow
More teachers than ever are investing in PD
Course content evolves with the 21st century
State and district support expands to scale student impact
GOLD STANDARD GRANT2
194 school districts
FINANCIAL EQUITY AND EMPOWERMENT (FEE) GRANT
15 large school districts3
IMPLEMENTATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GRANTS TO SUPPORT
California, Florida, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oregon and Wisconsin
TOTAL GRANT DOLLARS
$9M
RESEARCH GRANTS
G53 Initiative
Annual State of Financial Education Report
Study of State Implementations: Best Practices for Implementing Financial Education in High Schools
INNOVATIVE SERVICE DELIVERY MODELS
Mindset and Milestones
Niche Clinic
Society for Financial Education and Professional Development
MARKETPLACE PODCASTS FOR YOUNGER AUDIENCES
Million Bazillion
Financially Inclined
1 Numbers represent verified teachers with NGPF accounts.
2 The Gold Standard grant period ended on August 31, 2022. NGPF invested $1 million on grassroots advocacy through this program, which led to 164,000+ students now guaranteed to take a personal finance course prior to graduation.
3 FEE Grant program has expanded access to personal finance education in 15 of the largest and most diverse districts in the US. NGPF has committed over $5 million for districts to hire personal finance specialists. The districts that received FEE grant funding include:
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