GenFKD Rolls Out Its Latest Financial Literacy Curriculum

By Danielle Wirsansky on September 23, 2016

With the 2016-2017 school year just beginning, GenFKD, or “Generation Financial Knowledge Development,” is rolling out their latest curriculum and digital platform designed to help students meet the needs of a 21st century economy and raise awareness of the current gap between employment and education, according to a recent press release.

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“We offer students more tools to succeed, while advocating for changing a higher education system that is clearly behind the times,” said co-founder and newly appointed Executive Director, Justin Dent, in the press release. “I grew up in a community where people believed in the power of education,” Dent said.

“There were too many people like me who fell through the cracks finding academic and career opportunities, and its mission to change that dynamic through educational reform … From cost-of-living calculators to on-campus speakers who are winners of ABC’s ‘Shark Tank’ contestants, we try to bring the role of business, entrepreneurship, economic and tax policy and true career preparation to the forefront, not the plot of Hollywood movies.”

GenFKD, founded in 2014, has representatives at 26 campuses nationally who run financial literacy education programs, develop a formal curriculum for in-class or on-campus instruction, and address entrepreneurship, self-employment, economic policy and pocketbook economics.

Visit GenFKD.org or contact david@genfkd.org for more information or interview requests with GenFKD’s leadership or any of the student fellows on the 26 campuses nationwide.

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