Cooperative Extension is a nationwide educational network that brings research and knowledge of land-grant institutions to people in their homes, workplaces, and communities. Extension links the resources and expertise of more than 3,000 county extension offices, 105 land-grant colleges and universities (which include historically black colleges, tribal colleges, and institutions serving the U.S. territories), and the federal government through USDA’s Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (NIFA). The following are examples of efforts underway:
State |
Program Description(s) |
Contact Person |
Alabama |
LifeSmarts
Biz World;; Piggy Bank Pageant; National Endowment for Financial Education( NEFE®) High School Financial Planning Program (HSFPP®)
Reality Check
Calhoun County Saves |
Bernice Wilson
bbwilson@aces.edu
Lisa Wissert
wisselc@aces.edu
Ruth Brock
brockru@auburn.edu
Isaac Chappell
ichappel@aces.edu |
Alaska |
NEFE® HSFPP® |
Roxie Dinstel fnrrd@uaf.edu |
Arizona |
Duel in Desert; Small Steps to Health and Wealth
Jump$tart Financial Expo for Teachers |
Melinda Burke
mburke@Ag.arizona.edu
Nicole Chinadle
nchinadle@Ag.arizona.edu |
Arkansas |
Financial Champions; Kids and Cash; Money Sense for Kids; The Cash Kids; Calculating Consumer |
Laura Connerly
lconnerly@uaex.edu |
Colorado |
NEFE High School Financial Planning Program training; "Teaching Your Children Money Habits For Life" sessions; "Spend Some, Share Some, Save Some" classes for older youth; and 4-H projects: Consumer Savvy and Financial Champions |
Laurel Kubin lkubin@larimer.org |
California |
Money Talks for Teens Series
Interactive website moneytalks4teens.org, colorful teen guides, easy-to-follow leader’s guides, videos, and games all designed to appeal to teens. Materials available in English and Spanish. |
Karen Varcoe Karen.varcoe@ucr.edu |
Delaware |
Here’s what we’re doing in Delaware: NEFE® High School Financial Planning Program®: 4-H Financial Champions and Consumer Savvy project books: Consumer Champions Bowl at State Fair: Mini Society at After School site locations: Money Smarts training for educators; Training for teachers; First State Saves for Youth; Jump Start Coalition. |
Maria Pippidis Pippidis@udel.edu. |
District of Columbia |
Money Saving Wednesdays; Basic Financial Planning. |
Rodney Gill
rgill@udc.edu |
Florida |
4-H Money Camps and after-school programs; Money Wise; 4-H Financial Champions; 4-H On Your Own: Challenge for Living; NEFE® HSFPP®; Specialty Events & Competitions (Consumer Choices, Consumer Ed Demos, On Your Own: Challenge for Living Skill-a-thons & Life Smarts Competition; & Mall Madness); Young Investor Program. |
Joy Cantrell Jordan
jcj@ufl.edu
Michael Gutter msgutter@ufl.edu |
Georgia |
4-H Consumer Judging and Cotton Bowl competitions; Financial Literacy Teacher Training; Statewide Financial Literacy Initiative; Georgia Youth Saves; 4-H Demonstration Projects. |
Michael Rupured mrupured@uga.edu |
Hawaii |
Peer Education for Financial Literacy; MoneyEd. |
Wayne Nishijima
w@ctahr.hawaii.edu |
Idaho |
NEFE® HSFPP®; Kids Kredit Card; Money on the Bookshelf; So You Want to Move Out?!; Welcome to the Real World; Fun With Money Afterschool Program; and 4-H Youth Financial Literacy Camps. |
Lyle Hansen lhansen@uidaho.edu |
Indiana |
Scholarship Help for High School Seniors; Millionaire: Can You Be One?; Girl Power; NEFE® HSFPP®; Reality Store; Where Does Your Money Go? |
Elizabeth Kiss
dekiss@purdue.edu |
Kansas |
NEFE® HSFPP®; Welcome to the Real World. |
Carol Young
cyoung@oznet.ksu.edu |
Louisiana |
NEFE® HSFPP®; Free Enterprise Program; 4-H Financial Management/Consumer Decision Making program; Welcome to the Real World; Newspapers in Education; Youth Financial Educators' Summit; Money on the Bookshelf; Jump$tart Your Money Week. |
Jeanette Tucker
jtucker@agctr.lsu.edu |
Maine |
National Endowment for Financial Education( NEFE®) High School Financial Planning Program (HSFPP®). 4-H Financial Champions Money Fun-damentals, Mini Society. |
Debra Kantor dkantor@umext.maine.edu |
Maryland |
Sammy the Saver School Assemblies; Teaching Teens the ABC's of Credit Cards; Avoiding the Credit Card Push on College Campuses; NEFE® HSFPP. |
Megan O’Neil-Haight
oneil@umd.edu |
Michigan |
4-H Future Millionaire's Club Programming; 4-H Future Entrepreneurs Club Programming; 4-H Be the E (Entrepreneurship); 4-H Financial Champions; 4H Consumer Savvy; Mini-Society®; Michigan Money Smart Week; Michigan Jump$tart Coalition (and Teacher Training Conferences); NEFE® HSFPP® (and teacher training programs), Thrive by Five, The Money Game Simulation, and 4-H Exploration Days financial management sessions. |
Erica Tobe
tobee@msu.edu |
Minnesota |
NEFE® HSFPP®; Financial Champions; Consumer Savvy: Money on the Bookshelf; Consumer Decisions Contest; Using Children’s Literature to Teach Economics; Thrive by Five; MN Jump$tart Coalition; Managing College Life: Your Money, Your Housing, Your Future; Financial Literacy: What’s New in Credit
& Debt; Economic & Personal Finance Conference. |
Lori- Hendrickson lhend@umn.edu
Sara Croymans croym001@umn.edu |
Mississippi |
NEFE® HSFPP®, Welcome to the Real World; Money Matters; Seminars for Youth and Teachers; Money on the Bookshelf; ABC's of Credit Cards; Jumpstart Poster and Essay Contests; 4-H Consumer Judging Contests; partnerships with Jumpstart Coalition; NCEE; and Federal Reserve for training teachers. |
Bobbie Shaffett BShaffett@humansci.msstate.edu |
Missouri |
NEFE® HSFPP® |
Andrew Zumwalt
ZumwaltA@missouri.edu |
Montana |
Money on the Bookshelf; Financial Champions; Family Financial Literacy Project; NEFE®; HSFPP®; Teach Children to Save. |
Marsha Goetting
goetting@montana.edu, |
Nebraska |
NEFE® HSFPP®; Welcome to the Real World: Financial Champions: 4-H Money Camps: Preventing The Credit Card Blues @ 22; 4-H project ESI: Entrepreneurship; 4-H Shopping In Style & Attention Shoppers! |
Leanne Manning
Lmanning1@unl.edu |
Nevada |
Money Sense for Your Children newsletter series; Money on the Bookshelf; NEFE® HSFPP®. |
Alice Crites
critesa@unce.unr.edu |
New Hampshire |
Let’s Talk About Money; NEFE® HSFPP®. |
Suzann Knight
Suzann.knight@unh.edu |
New Jersey |
What Young Adults Need to Know About Money: Newspapers in Education; Real Money; Youth Financial Simulation; Money $mart Week; Piggy Bank Pageant; Teacher Training Workshops, NEFE® HSFPP®. Poster contest; NJ Financial Education Idol contest. |
Barbara O’Neill
oneill@aesop.rutgers.edu |
New Mexico |
NEFE® HSFPP® |
Fahzy Abdul-Rahman fahzy@nmsu.edu |
New York |
NEFE® HSFPP® |
Barbara M. Henza
bmh13@cornell.edu |
North Carolina |
Living Independently Through Financial Education (LIFE): NEFE® HSFPP® |
Carolyn Bird Carolyn_bird@ncsu.edu |
North Dakota |
NEFE® HSFPP®; North Dakota Jump$tart Coalition; 4-H Consumer Choices consumer judging; Financial Champions; Consumer Savvy: 4-H Consumer Choices Judging program; Personal Finance eXtension (pronounced ee-extension) website. |
Debb Pankow
dpankow@ndsuext.nodak.edu |
Ohio |
“Real Money, Real World” simulation based curriculum; NEFE® HSFPPr®; Money Management 4-H projects, judging events, and after-school programs; Ohio Commission for Personal Finance Education; Ohio Jump$tart; Coalition; KnowHow2Go (Economic Access initiative for low-income youth to go to college); “Financial Literacy Resources” presentations. |
Nancy Hudson
Hudson.2@cfaes.osu.edu |
Oregon |
NEFE® HSFPP® |
Debra Driscoll
Debra.driscoll@oregonstate.edu |
Pennsylvania |
Financial Champions; Kids and Kash; Reading Makes Cents: A 4-H After School Financial Literacy Curriculum Pilot; NEFE® HSFPP®; |
Marilyn M. Furry
mfurry@psu.edu |
South Carolina |
NEFE® HSFPP®; South Carolina Mini-Society Program; Financial Champions; Consumer Savvy |
Nancy Porter
nporter@clemson.edu |
South Dakota |
NEFE® HSFPP® (High School Financial Planning Program); Financial Champions; Money on the Bookshelf; Real World 101; Consumer Savvy; 4-H Consumer Judging Competition; Thrive by Five Pre-school Financial Literacy; Savvy Saving, Sharing, Spending; FDIC Money Smart curriculum; Weaving Your Future: Personal Finance for Native Americans; Junior Achievement programs; Jump$tart Coalition for Financial Literacy. |
Liz Gorham
gorham.liz@ces.sdstate.edu |
Tennessee |
NEFE® HSFPP; 4-H Consumer Decision Making program, 4-H Consumer Economics project, LifeSmarts, LifeSkills, Tennessee Saves, On My Own simulation, Reality Check, Money Crunch, Ready to Work, Thrive by Five, Financial Fitness for Life, 4-H Millionaires Club, Money on the Bookshelf, Spend, Save & Share Banks, Tennessee Saves Week piggy bank pageants, Tennessee Saves Legislative Day, TN Jump$tart Coalition, Jump$tart Teachers Conference. |
Ann Berry aaberry@utk.edu |
Texas |
Financial Champions; Consumer Critter Crew; 4-H Consumer Life Skills.
4-H Consumer Decision Making Contest; NEFE® HSFPP®. |
Joyce Cavanagh
jacavanagh@ag.tamu.edu
Nancy Granovsky
n-granovsky@tamu.edu |
Vermont |
NEFE® HSFPP®; Vermont Jump$tart Coalition; Personal Finance eXtension (pronounced ee-extension) website. |
Judy Branch Judy.Branch@uvm.edu |
Virginia |
Camp Millionaire, NEFE® High School Financial, Program, What Young Adults Need to Know About Money; Reality Store: Financial Champions; Survivor Management; Virginia Jump$tart; Virginia LifeSmarts; Money on the Bookshelf, eXtension (pronounced ee-exxtension). |
Celia Hayhoe
chayoe@vt.edu |
Washington |
NEFE® High School Financial Planning Program teacher training; Money 2020 Washington State University Extension website.
Don’t Buy It; Media Smarts |
Chris Koehler Koeler@wsu.edu J. Klein jlklein@wsu.edu |
West Virginia |
Jump$tart Coalition; NEFE® HSFPP®; Bank at School. |
Mary Ellen Conn
MaryEllen.Conn@Mail.wvu.edu |
Wisconsin |
Reality-type programs & workshops, FDIC Money Smart, CUNA Thrive by Five, University of Nevada Extension Money on the Bookshelf, 4-H Financial Champions, 4-H Consumer Saavy, University of Idaho Extension Dollar Decisions, NEFE® HSFPP®, University of Nebraska Extension Prevent Credit Card Blues at 22. |
Ruth N. Schriefer
Ruth.schriefer@ces.uwex.edu |
Wyoming |
NEFE® HSFPP®; Wyoming Saves; Wyoming Jump$tart Coalition; ABCs of Credit Card Finance; eXtension.org; Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?; Breaking Even with your 4-H Project; FDIC Money Smart curriculum; Leaving a Lasting Legacy. |
Cole C. Ehmke
cehmke@uwyo.edu |
