Family Financial Literacy Lab
Building Financial Futures for Every Family
The Family Financial Literacy Lab is an interactive financial capability program for middle and high school students and their families — turning financial knowledge into everyday skills.
Why Financial Literacy Matters
American families lack the financial skills to manage a budget, navigate unexpected expenses, or protect themselves from fraud — making early financial education one of the highest-impact investments a community can make.
Our Programs
Financial Capability, Not Just Financial Literacy
Knowing what a budget is matters. Knowing how to adjust a budget when expenses exceed income matters even more. Setting and tracking financial goals, understanding credit, and protecting financial assets is important for all families. The Lab moves students beyond definitions.
Middle and High School Financial Capability
Designed for Grades 6–12, students work through six real-world missions covering earning, budgeting, saving, banking, responsible use of credit, and protecting their money — moving from knowledge to application.
Family Connection Activities
Structured activities that bring students and parents together to discuss goals, spending, saving, and household priorities — creating financial conversations that continue at home.
School & Community Partnerships
Flexible delivery through after-school programs, evening family events, weekend programming, and Community School initiatives — configured around the needs of each school.
Our Mission
The Bridge Between Knowing and Doing
Financial education gives young people important knowledge. The Family Financial Literacy Lab helps them use it. Students make choices, solve problems, explain tradeoffs, and apply what they learn with their families — because financial habits are shaped far beyond the classroom.
"Learn it. Practice it. Apply it. Together."
The Curriculum
Six Real-World Missions
A practical financial learning journey that takes students from foundation to application, decision-making, family connection, and mastery.
Our Family's Money Choices
Connect financial choices to values and priorities; set meaningful goals.
How Families Earn and Build Opportunities
Explore how people earn income and how skills and education shape financial choices.
Planning and Managing Family Money
Build budgets, respond to financial constraints, and make decisions when everything cannot fit.
Borrowing Carefully and Keeping Commitments
Explore how borrowing works, what it costs, and what it means to keep financial commitments.
Growing Family Financial Security
Establish savings goals, develop strategies to reach them, and build long-term financial security.
Protecting Our Family's Money
Explore banking tools while learning to recognize fraud, scams, and risky financial situations.
Flexible Implementation
After-school · Evening Events · Weekend Programming · Community Schools
Join Our Mission
Corporate and community partners help expand access to practical financial education for young people and families who may not otherwise have the opportunity to participate. Your investment builds capability that lasts a lifetime.