Deadline: 1-Sep-21
Applications are now open for the Texas Financial Education Endowment Grant Program to support statewide financial capability and consumer credit building activities and programs.
Priorities
TFEE funds are awarded to organizations that implement the following priorities:
- School and youth based financial education
- Kindergarten through 12th grade financial education programs that implement statewide TEKS requirements, including train the trainer programs
- Educational materials seamlessly integrate personal finance principles into existing curricula
- Comprehensive professional development programs in personal financial education for kindergarten through 12th grade teachers and administrators
- Incentive programs for youth or college savings
- Provide information and incentives to match savings for low-and moderate-income families to save for their children’s education
- Children or youth savings program
- Kindergarten through 12th grade financial education programs that implement statewide TEKS requirements, including train the trainer programs
- Adult financial education and capability
- Increase credit scores, personal savings and reduce debt of low-income, payday, and auto title customers
- Savings programs and incentives
- Innovative strategies for long-term financial empowerment, including parenting for financial capability
- Encourage liquid asset building
- Financial Coaching
- Program emphasizes changes in financial behaviors over time, based on an ongoing relationship between the coach and the client. Key elements include:
- a focus on long-term outcomes
- an ongoing, systematic, client-driven, collaborative process for assisting clients to change behaviors
- support to practice new behaviors and financial well being
- building skills and teaching content based on the client’s unique needs and goals
- empower clients to become financially independent and secure
- Program emphasizes changes in financial behaviors over time, based on an ongoing relationship between the coach and the client. Key elements include:
Funding Information
The funds will be used to support programs this grant cycle with awards ranging from $5,000 to $40,000.
Eligibility Criteria
Non-profit organizations, governmental organizations, schools, and for-profit entities are eligible to apply for grant funding. Funding is not open to financial service providers and entities regulated by the Finance Commission.
For more information, visit https://www.tfee.texas.gov/grant_application