Teach Financial Skills with FWA’s Financial Backpack Volunteers

April 13, 2023

April is Financial Literacy Month! If you have a few hours to introduce teens and young adults to financial literacy, then Financial Backpack is the right program for you. Volunteer to teach basic personal finance skills to high school and college students, using the FWA’s proprietary curriculum, which includes teaching modules on Saving, Budgeting, Managing Credit, Investing, and Paying for College.


We have had an unprecedented number of requests to present the Financial Backpack curriculum this spring, including online and in-person sessions at New York City high schools, as well as with Baruch College and the YMCA of Greater New York. We provide training resources for all of the curriculum materials.


Please register with your name, contact information and dates you are available.


Questions or concerns? Please contact Financial Backpack Co-Chairs, Lindsay Starr at [email protected], or Suzanne Matthews at [email protected].


Thanks for supporting the Financial Backpack, and we hope to hear from you!

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School Dates In-person/Remote Module Presenters Needed
High School of Fashion Industries-NYC April 18, 9:30 am - 11:00 am Remote Investing 101 2
Hillcrest High School May 8, 15 or 22 @ 8:50-9:40 and 9:45-10.30 (2 classes) Remote Investing 101 2
High School for Arts and Business April 26 or 27th (dates flexible) Remote Investing 101 2
Flushing High School Late April Remote Paying for College 2
High School of Fashion Industries, 22 W. 24th St, NYC April 26 or 27, 10-11:30 am In-person Understanding Credit 2
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis High School, 120 W. 46 St., NYC April 20, 10:40-11:30 am; April 27, 10:40-11:30 am; May 10, 10:40-11:30 am: May 24, 11:30 – 12:15 In-person Paying for College 2
Brooklyn Academy of Global Finance, 125 Stuyvesant Ave, Brooklyn May 10, 17 or 24 In-person Banking Basics 2
Baruch College, 55 Lexington Ave. Pathways to Partnership – Juniors and Seniors April 25, 12:30 – 2 pm In-person Steps to Financial Success 2 - 3
McBurney YMCA, 125 W. 14th St. After School teens Friday, May 5, 3:30 – 5 pm In-person Money and Me 2 - 3
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