Personal Finance and Entrepreneurship Programs

Budgeting

The Budget Game simulates the experience of students living on their own while managing their bills, credit cards & finances. The game plays out over 18-months but takes about 6-hours of real time to complete.

Investing

The Investing Challenge offers students the opportunity to manage a hypothetical $100,000 portfolio by investing in stocks chosen from the American, New York and NASDAQ exchanges with live market data.

Entrepreneurship

Our Entrepreneurship Pitch Competition is a business plan challenge that jump-starts minds and encourages critical thinking. Students practice the skills necessary for creating and pitching a successful business plan.

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Impacting Our Community

25,000

Eager students have registered for our educational programs

300

Satisfied teachers trained - creating a lasting legacy in financial literacy education

Pennsylvania counties served (yes - that happens to be all of them)

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Personal Finance Lab

Personal Finance Lab's financial literacy games engage students in many activities. The program combines a Budget Game, a Stock Market Game, and embedded lessons, but there is so much more! Students learn to use a debit and credit card, manage their checking/savings/credit card accounts, transfer funds, pay bills, build an emergency fund etc. Their built-in lessons reinforce many financial literacy skills.

Dream-Learn-Pitch

Brighter Financial Futures has developed a program that exposes middle and high school students to the world of entrepreneurship and small business. We've consolidated our curriculum into 8 core lessons. The concepts covered in our program are vital to understanding the challenging world of entrepreneurship. Our curriculum culminates into a fast-paced competition. Each year, we launch a business plan challenge that jump-starts minds and encourages critical thinking.

"As a bank driven by the mission of financial empowerment, we take pride in supporting Brighter Financial Futures to equip the next generation with the essential skills they need to succeed. Investing in financial literacy and entrepreneurship today is not just a choice—it’s a necessity for building a stronger, more resilient economy tomorrow."

Jack W. Jones

President and Chief Executive Officer, First Keystone Community Bank

Opening Doors to Education