Empower Students’ Financial Literacy with Your Sponsorship

Support your local schools with PersonalFinanceLab’s financial literacy programs and equip students with real-world banking, budgeting, credit management, and investing skills. Our platform offers interactive tools, including a personal banking and budgeting game, an investing simulation and dozens of personal finance lessons tailored for K-12 and high school classes.

Sponsoring a school helps you make a lasting impact in education while aligning with your banking community service initiatives. Discover how your bank can earn CRA credit by sponsoring this financial literacy program. Full reporting of student activity included!

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Community Reinvestment Act CRA credit qualified financial literacy activities for high school students

Teachers get support bringing financial literacy concepts to life.

students taking notes in class

Students learn from their mistakes and develop smart money habits.

Monitor progress with graphs

Banks & Credit Unions have full reporting on the effectiveness of their program.

Efficacy of PersonalFinanceLab’s Financial Literacy Program

Here’s the proof that our platform does what it is supposed to do! We measured student progress using a 15-question Pre & Post Test covering Savings, Income, Credit, and Investing. Check out the impressive gains from our Fall 2024 students below.

Here’s the Proof: Pre/Post Test Results Indicate Strong Improvement in Many Personal Finance Topics

3X
Investing Score
Improvement

Students improved their investing score by 191%

2X
Credit Topic
Improvement

Students improved their credit knowledge by 118%

30%

Savings & Income Score
Improvement

51%

Credit Score
Improvement

70%

Investing Score
Improvement

Key Stats from PersonalFinanceLab’s Budget Game and Stock Game

89%

of students saved at least $1,000 in their emergency savings fund


The Budget Game is an exceptional personal finance tool that has revolutioned the way I’ve delivered my high school Personal Finance unit.
Joe Polwrek,
Monte Vista Christian (Spring 2023)
95,806

pop quizzes taken

383,224

questions answered

369,616

trades made in 2023

5,883

classes created


300,000+

student registrations


1,950

teachers


93%

of teachers who used the Stock Game reported they were high quality programs

98%

of students felt more prepared to face the challenges of adult life since using PersonalFinanceLab

$7,598

the median ending saving balance for 2023


I truly think every student would benefit from playing the game. I wish I had something like this to help me before I moved out on my own and started college.
Michael Eklund,
Kenilworth Junior High School

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Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) Compliant School Financial Literacy Sponsorship Opportunities

Banks can meet Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) goals by sponsoring financial literacy programs in schools. PersonalFinanceLab provides students with hands-on tools like banking and budgeting simulations, stock market games, and personal finance lessons. According to the OCC, these activities qualify as CRA-eligible, helping you support schools in low-to-moderate-income (LMI) areas while making a measurable impact on financial education.

Need volunteer service hours? Your team can choose from a variety of our easy-to-teach personal finance topics such as Debit vs Credit cards, Needs vs Wants, Fixed vs Variable Expenses, Buying Your First Car, and more.

Learn more about CRA-compliant sponsorship opportunities today. If you want to work with a particular school or teacher, you can sponsor the class directly. Your logo will appear for all students registered to that class; and will be visible from the student dashboard when they login and from all secondary pages on site. You can sponsor additional custom lessons for students to complete along with our 300+ State and National standards aligned learning materials.

We have CRA specialists standing by to help you.

Some examples of high school sponsorship levels:

Silver
1

Middle or High School

Bank & Credit Union CRA Silver sponsorship package
Gold
10

Middle or High Schools

Bank & Credit Union CRA Gold sponsorship package
Platinum
25

Middle or High Schools

Bank & Credit Union CRA Platinum sponsorship package

Your Bank/Credit Union Sponsorship Includes:

  • Partial corporate branding on PersonalFinanceLab website
  • Customizable and interactive personal banking, budgeting & investing games
  • Full learning library with National and State standards-aligned lessons
  • CRA volunteer service hour opportunities to interact with teacher & students
  • Full transparency reporting showing teacher & student usage
  • Dedicated account manager
  • Live teacher training webinar
  • Live chat customer support (9AM to 5PM EST)

Additional volume discounts are available for sponsoring more schools!

If you know a school that you would like to sponsor, contact us now to and we will give them immediate access.

Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) Credit FAQs

CRA Credit Requirements

The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) encourages financial institutions to meet the credit needs of their communities; specifically, they must primarily benefit the low- and moderate-income (LMI) individuals and neighborhoods.

What makes something CRA eligible?

The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) encourages banks to help low-income and moderate-income (aka, LMI) communities by making loans, investments and providing services. CRA-eligible activities revitalize neighborhoods, improve community facilities, and promoting financial literacy are all specifically listed.

What qualifies for CRA volunteer Hours?

A CRA-eligible services must have a primary purpose of community development and be related to some extent to financial services. And they need to be offered to primarily low and moderate income areas.

Ready to Get Started?

Schedule a call with one of our CRA specialists to discover
what sponsorship package fits best for your financial institution,
and your strategic CRA credit goals.

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Information Request

To talk to one of our CRA specialists of how we can match schools that want our access to our financial literacy platform to your financial institution’s CRA credit needs, please click the button below to fill out a short form and we will contact you ASAP. Please leave your phone number so we can make sure we can reach you. Let’s get the conversation started!

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