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 National Institute of Food and Agriculture (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$tart Financial Expo for Teachers |
Melinda Burke
mburke@Ag.arizona.edu
Nicole Chinadle
nchinadle@Ag.arizona.edu |
Arkansas |
Ready, Set, Graduate; Get Real – Here’s the Deal; Money on the Bookshelf and Money on the Bookshelf for Early Childhood Educators; The College Student Budget; Shifting Financial; Consumer Judging; (NEFE®) (HSFPP®); Arkansas Jump$tart Coalition; 4-H projects including Consumer Savvy and 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 |
Nancy Porter
nancy.porter@colostate.edu |
Connecticut |
Welcome to the Real World, Financial Literacy Teacher Training, Parents, Kids and Money Training Connecticut Jump $tart Coalition |
Faye Griffiths-Smith
faye.griffiths-smith@uconn.edu
|
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. NEFE High School Financial Planning Program |
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
Audrey Norman
anorman@pbcgov.org |
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
Marilyn Bischoff
mbischof@uidaho.edu |
Illinois |
NEFE, HSFPP, Welcome to the Real World |
Kathy Sweedler sweedler@illinois.edu |
Iowa |
NEFE® HSFPP® |
Mary Beth Kaufam
mbkaufma@iastate.edu |
Kansas |
NEFE® HSFPP®; Welcome to the Real World |
Carol Young
cyoung@oznet.ksu.edu |
Kentucky |
NEFE® HSFPP® |
Robert Flashman
rflasma@uky.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 |
Reading Makes Cents:: NEFE HSFPP®; 4-H Financial Champions workbooks; and eXtension.org Youth Financial Literacy: 4-H Teen Focus, Maryland Day, 4-H Volunteer Forum, a partnership with Drug Court, and community workshops across the state. |
Crystal Terhune
crytal@umd.edu
Kathy Gordon
kgordon1@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$tart Coalition (and Teacher Training Conferences); NEFE® HSFPP®, Thrive by Five, The Money Game Simulation, and 4-H Exploration Days financial management sessions. |
Erica Tobe
tobee@msu.edu |
Minnesota |
NEFE® HSFPP®; Financial Champions; Consumer Savvy: Money on the Bookshelf; Consumer Decisions Contest; Using Children’s Literature to Teach Economics; Thrive by Five; MN Jump$tart Coalition; Managing College Life: Your Money, Your Housing, Your Future; Financial Literacy: What’s New in Credit & Debt. |
Lori Hendrickson
lhend@umn.edu
Sara Croymans
croym001@umn.edu |
Mississippi |
Money Matters; Seminar for Youth and Teachers; Money on your Bookshelf; and Jumpstart Poster and Essay Contest |
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; Montana Financial Education Coalition Collaborations with Montana Credit Unions for Community Development and First Interstate BancSystem Foundation. |
Marsha Goetting
goetting@montana.edu, |
Nebraska |
NEFE® HSFPP®; Welcome to the Real World:; 4-H Financial Champions: 4-H Money Camps: Preventing The Credit Card Blues @ 22; 4-H ESI: Entrepreneurship; 4-H Shopping In Style & Attention Shoppers!; 4-H Making Cents of It. |
Leanne Manning
Lmanning1@unl.edu |
Nevada |
Money Sense for Your Children newsletter series; Money on the Bookshelf; NEFE® HSFPP®. |
Jeanne Hilton
hilton@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; Real Money; Money $mart Week Piggy Bank Pageant and Poster Contest; Teacher Training Workshops, NEFE® HSFPP® training; NJ Financial Education Idol contest; PowerPoint games. |
Barbara O’Neill
oneill@aesop.rutgers.edu |
New Mexico |
Money on the Bookshelf; NEFE® HSFPP®; 4-H Consumer Judging; New Mexico Jumpstart Coalition |
Fahzy Abdul-Rahman
Fahzy@nmsu.edu |
New York |
NEFE® HSFPP® |
Barbara M. Henza
bmh13@cornell.edu |
North Carolina |
NEFE® HSFPP® Living Independently Through Financial Education
(LIFE); Personal Finance Assessment System (PFAS): Online personal finance and competency certification system designed to reach aged 18 to 24 military personnel. |
Carolyn Bird
Carolyn_bird@ncsu.edu |
North Dakota |
NEFE® HSFPP®; North Dakota Jump$tart Coalition; 4-H Consumer Choices consumer judging; Financial Champions; Consumer Savvy: 4-H Consumer Choices Judging program; Personal Finance eXtension. |
Debb Pankow
dpankow@ndsuext.nodak.edu
Debra.Pankow@ndsu.edu
|
Ohio |
“Real Money, Real World”; NEFE® HSFPP®; Money Management 4-H projects, judging events, and after-school programs; Ohio Commission for Personal Finance Education; KnowHow2Go; “Financial Literacy Resources” presentations. |
Nancy Recker
recker.22@osu.edu
Betsy DeMatteo
dematteo.15@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®; |
Cathy Bowen
cbowen@psu.edu
Robert Thee
rthee@psu.edu |
South Carolina |
NEFE® HSFPP®; South Carolina Mini-Society Program; Financial Champions; Consumer Savvy; Junior Achievement programs; Jum$tart Coalition for Financial Literacy. |
Nancy Porter
nporter@clemson.edu |
South Dakota |
NEFE® HSFPP® ; Financial Champions; Money on the Bookshelf; Consumer Savvy; 4-H Consumer Judging Competition; Thrive by Five Pre-school Financial Literacy; FDIC Money Smart curriculum; Weaving Your Future: Personal Finance for Native Americans; Junior Achievement programs; Jump$tart Coalition for Financial Literacy Save Wisely Spend Smart (SD Series of 4 lessons with 1 or more personal coaching sessions). |
Elizabeth Gorham
elizabeth.gorham@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; Consumer Savvy.
4-H Consumer Decision Making Contest; NEFE® HSFPP®. |
Joyce Cavanagh
jacavanagh@ag.tamu.edu
Nancy Granovsky
n-granovsky@tamu.edu |
Virginia |
Camp Millionaire, NEFE® High School Financial, Program; Reality Store: Financial Champions; Survivor Management; Virginia Jump$tart; Virginia LifeSmarts; Money on the Bookshelf, eXtension (pronounced ee-exxtension). |
Celia Hayhoe
chayoe@vt.edu |
Washington |
NEFE® High School Financial Planning Program teacher training; Money 2020 Washington State University Extension website.
Don’t Buy It; Media Smarts |
Chris Koehler
koehler@wsu.edu
J. Klein
jlklein@wsu.edu |
West Virginia |
Jump$tart Coalition; NEFE® HSFPP®; Bank at School. |
Mary Ellen Conn
MaryEllen.Conn@Mail.wvu.edu |
Wisconsin |
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
Michael Collins
jmcollins@wisc.edu
Peggy Olive
peggy.olive@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 |
