A Message from:
Sharon Bush, Stephen Byrd, Cristina Cuomo, Kelly Posner Gerstenhaber, Anne Hearst-McInerney, and Jay McInerney
The Founders of FoolProof New York
Good news: Many New York high school teachers want to teach their kids to be smarter about money.
Bad news: Companies that make money when kids make poor money decisions want to provide the lessons.
The answer: New York teachers need a financial literacy curriculum developed by teachers, not one influenced by marketers.
FoolProof New York can provide that curriculum—with your help.
FoolProof has developed a free financial literacy curriculum that teaches kids what they really need to know about money and the reality of the free enterprise system: If you are going to be smart about money, you must learn to be a skeptic.
Last year, kids across America made over 40 million page views of this curriculum.
And listen to what teachers say:
"Though I review financial-literacy programs each year, it's been a conscious choice to use FoolProof"
Sandra Deiseroth, a business teacher at Horseheads High School in New York
"This is one of the most relevant courses we teach," says John Chargois, a principal at Union Public School in Oklahoma where all 3200 kids are required to go thru FoolProof before graduating.
Already—just by teacher word-of-mouth—360 New York schools have registered for FoolProof. We need to register and service thousands.
What We Need to Succeed
It will cost us $100,000 a year to both reach all teachers in the state and update and maintain our curriculum and teacher support tools.
You can help us reach that goal by donating $2,500 to $15,000 a year for four years to the FoolProof Foundation.
Your donation also puts you on the FoolProof New York Committee. But don't worry: you don't have to attend any meetings! Your name will appear on the FoolProof New York website along with ours.
What to Do Now
Watch the video below or read up on the "Walter Cronkite Project" here.
Walter Cronkite was personally involved in the founding of FoolProof. He provided FoolProof with its mantra: "Use caution. Question sellers. Rely on Research."
Don't New York kids need to base their financial lives on that mantra?
Donate, or contact us today.