Financial Education Grants
The NFEC’s goal is to help organizations significantly reduce the time and expense needed to get financial literacy grants. The less time you spend on fundraising activities, the more time you can allocate toward teaching personal finance lessons that can have long-term positive impact on the lives of people you serve.
We commend you for your efforts to promote financial literacy and hope these resources will help you garner funding for your initiative.
Steps to Receiving a Financial Education Grant
The NFEC makes funding a comprehensive financial education campaign easy by providing financial education grant opportunites. We commend your efforts to share money management lessons with people in your community and are here to support your efforts.
The NFEC connects sponsors with those that seek funding and provides in-kind donations. We seek organizations that can provide the following benefits to our sponsors in consideration for educational, promotional and sponsor funded donations: media outreach, database outreach, collaboration with community influencers, online placement, event placement, and other benefits that will help us spread the message of financial literacy.
Step 1: Build a Quality Program
Sponsors, patrons, and other funding sources seek to fund programs that have demonstrated empirical evidence that the program improves financial capabilities of participants. Thus programs that measure participants’ long-term success toward forming positive financial habits have a greater chance of receiving funds.
The main driver of a successful, credible, program is having competent educators. Teachers are the single most important influence on student success; yet most educators who teach financial literacy are poorly qualified. The quality of financial education instructors directly influences both short-term student outcomes and long-term impact on their financial well-being.
Step 2: Design Opportunities for Funders
Designing an educationally effective program is important, but making that program sustainable is equally critical. When developing your financial literacy program, consider the benefits you can offer to potential funding sources. A well-funded program reaches more people and makes a longer-lasting difference in the community.
Consider key barometers are established to empirically measure your corporate objectives. These measures vary widely from organization to organization, but our experts help you determine the best methods of gathering data specific to your needs. This can include: