Frequently Asked Questions
How can I support Future Funders and their financial literacy mission?
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Recommend products or other ideas to add to the site. Future Funders is always trying to get better and remains a work in progress. We would love for you to contribute to the site or hear your suggestions for books, toys, and games or anything else to add to our marketplace of ideas to help your experience. To send your recommendation to us directly, please use the "Contact Us" form above or click here.
What is the best way to find items on this site?
Future Funders wants to empower you and tries to make it easy for you to locate what you are looking for to teach your kids. Best practice would be to start on our homepage and select what type of product category best fits with your own financial literacy teaching. Or you can just browse the site!
How do I recommend a book, toy, game or contribute an idea I have to the site?
As we say often, we have no monopoly on knowledge on Future Funders. If you have any ideas that align with our values and want to add your knowledge base to the site please don’t hesitate to reach out. If you have any other book, toy, or game recommendations that have helped you in your money journey and you don’t see on the site please let us know so that we can add to our library. You can do both by filling out the “Contact Us” form above or click here.
What Is Financial Literacy? What Are The Five Basics of financial literacy?
We define financial literacy as having the knowledge of how to use money as a tool to live the life you want to live. Whether it is learning about saving, earning, investing, spending, budgeting, or just getting better with your emotions around money, we want to be the resource of choice for your family. We believe everyone seeks to use money differently in their lives and having a place where you can find financial knowledge specific to your needs is the best approach. To us, the five basics of financial literacy are understanding the five areas mentioned above and more importantly how to use them to fit the live you want to live.
Why Is Financial Literacy Important?
We believe financial literacy and having a financial education can alter the course of any child’s life and save them from a lot of emotional stress as they get older. While it’s a cliche saying, we believe that knowledge really is power. When it comes to our kids, we want to give them this power. To learn more about us click here.
How To Teach your Kids About Money?
As a parent, grandparent, teacher, or guardian, we believe you know best. Teaching kids anything should be done in a way that fits best with how they learn. Remember, you don’t have to be a financial whiz to have learned a thing or two about money in a lifetime. If you are note sure where to start, that’s where we come in. Check out our marketplace which right now consists of books, games, toys, guides and tools, or our school of thought. Or shoot us a note here, and we would be happy to try to help with a more customized solution.
When To Teach your Kids about money?
Earlier the better! There is actually research that shows most kids cement a lot of their money habits by age seven (crazy, right?!).
Why is personal finance not taught in schools?
Great question. We think personal finance would have been a lot more beneficial to learn than some of the subjects we were taught growing up. Schools are starting to catch on though, and now about one third of high schools in the United States require personal finance lessons prior to graduation.