Providing financial education for urban youth through peer mentorship and customized curricula.

Website

: http://moneythink.org

The Idea

Moneythink breaks the cycle of poverty by providing peer-mentorship and customized, pop-culture curriculum to high school students in urban areas. We train talented college students to mentor urban youth in financial life skills and entrepreneurship, then connect youth to professional opportunities.

The Specifics

Moneythink started in 2009 as a small club at the University of Chicago. With less than $15,000, Moneythink has scaled to 17 urban campus communities nationwide and has become a national student movement striking at the intersection of the two greatest domestic crises of our time: a failing economy and a failing education system.

In 2012, as its founder graduates from college, Moneythink will be setting up offices in Chicago to grow the student network. In August 2012, we’ll be hosting our first-annual National Leadership Institute for chapter leaders to bring the movement together for the first time ever. We need this grant to print already-very-discounted conference materials for attendees (curricula, workbooks, ops-guides). Thx GOOD!!!

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