More than a course. Learning built for real decisions, real stakes, real life.

Through our Financial Resilience App, the Financial Resilience Badge, and community workshops, people of all ages build the skills and confidence to make real financial choices — in real situations, with real stakes.

Explore Financial Education
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Our Approach

Real financial change is built through habit and context. Our approach pairs a solid curriculum with interactive tools that put ideas into practice in the moments of daily life — that's how lasting habits form, and how learning stays relevant to each person.

Learning by Doing

People build skills and confidence by applying concepts in real time. Our tools include goal-setting, app-based nudges, and practical exercises that guide real action and reinforce lasting habits.

Interactive and Inclusive

Whether online or in person, our content is multilingual, visual, and designed for a range of literacy levels and lived experiences.

Motivating and Engaging

We offer incentives, progress tracking, and practical takeaways that keep learners engaged, from students to parents to older adults.

Integrated with Daily Life

Financial education happens through workshops, app journeys, and in-community experiences guided by our trusted community ambassadors and partners.

Learning That Lasts

A dynamic, mobile-first learning experience built for real financial decisions.

How the app works

The Financial Resilience App combines a solid curriculum, AI-powered tools, and content in multiple formats — a customized learning experience built to grow real-world financial skills.

Built for engagement

  • Short, story-format videos
  • Interactive quizzes
  • Visual concept cards
  • Real-time prompts
  • Personalized learning paths based on your responses

"Is It Worth My Time?"

An interactive calculator that helps users simulate real financial decisions and understand everyday trade-offs.

Guided, applied, and built for lasting financial resilience.

It's one of several decision-making tools designed to support real-life financial choices.

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What People Gain

Our app helps people build lifelong financial capability through practical, real-world skills, including:

The Financial Resilience Initiative

The Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) and Savings Collaborative have launched the Financial Resilience Initiative — a national effort to strengthen how financial resilience is built across Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), from pre-collegiate preparation through college and into early alumni years.

The Initiative centers on students' real financial journeys — recognizing that progress during and after college is deeply shaped by family context and community systems. By extending support beyond the campus, the Initiative strengthens household stability and builds pathways to long-term economic security and generational wealth.

Our Money Matters report provides the foundation — turning insight into tangible programs, tools, and action. Through TMCF, the Initiative reaches a network of 55 HBCUs and over 300,000 students.

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Who We Reach and How We Deliver

We work with schools, universities, job training programs, child support services, and workforce initiatives to integrate financial learning into people's everyday lives.

Universities and Colleges

We integrate the Financial Resilience App across the student journey — from college entry through graduation and into early career.

Community-Based Organizations

We partner with trusted community institutions to deliver multilingual, accessible workshops — in Spanish, English, or bilingually, in person or via Zoom. The Financial Resilience App is multilingual and mobile-friendly, so people can keep learning between sessions.

Aging Services Networks

We tailor delivery for older adults, integrating our tools into programs that support financial resilience later in life.

High Schools

We combine behavioral tools and the Financial Resilience App to help teens face their first financial decisions with confidence and care.

Want to bring Financial Education to your organization or community?

We'd love to talk.

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