Next Gen Personal Finance is excited to offer cash prizes to personal finance educators as a way to honor their work during Financial Literacy Month and to share top resources and activities with the educator community.

Here are the details:

• Who is eligible?  Personal finance educators at high school or college level.

• What are the prizes?
  • Five (5) $100 prizes will be awarded for engaging online resources (videos, articles, interactives) that you have found on the internet and used in your classroom.
  • Two (2) $500 prizes will be awarded for original activities that teachers have created and used in the classroom.

• What do I need to include with my submission?
  • A link to the online resource OR a PDF of the activity that you have created
  • A short description of the key concepts taught by the resource/activity
  • A short answer to “What do your students like most about this resource/activity?

• Are there limits to how many resources/activities that I can submit?
  • Teachers may submit up to 5 resources and 2 activities.

• When is the deadline?
  • All submissions are due by April 24th
  • Winners will be announced on April 30th

• Who should I send my submission to:
  • Send all submissions to tim@nextgenpersonalfinance.org with the subject line “NGPF Financial Literacy Month Contest”

• How will the submissions be shared with the community of personal finance educators?
  • NGPF will post top submissions on the NGPF Blog, Twitter and our Facebook page.
  • In addition, winners will be announced in our May newsletter.

About the Author

Tim Ranzetta

Tim's saving habits started at seven when a neighbor with a broken hip gave him a dog walking job. Her recovery, which took almost a year, resulted in Tim getting to know the bank tellers quite well (and accumulating a savings account balance of over $300!). His recent entrepreneurial adventures have included driving a shredding truck, analyzing executive compensation packages for Fortune 500 companies and helping families make better college financing decisions. After volunteering in 2010 to create and teach a personal finance program at Eastside College Prep in East Palo Alto, Tim saw firsthand the impact of an engaging and activity-based curriculum, which inspired him to start a new non-profit, Next Gen Personal Finance.