ROSEVILLE, Minn.–SPIRE Credit Union’s InSPIREation Foundation (IF) recently awarded a total of $21,400 to three organizations that provide financial literacy education, and tools to achieve financial freedom.
The organizations include:
- The FoolProof Foundation, which is s an educational technology non-profit industry leader in providing free, accessible, online financial literacy that is unique from others. Their mission is to empower consumers with independent resources to make the right financial decisions for life. The InSPIREation Foundation funding will allow them to expand their programming in Minnesota.
- Kids At Risk Action (KARA, which is a non-profit action tank that supports the people, policies, and programs that improve the lives of at-risk youth. The IF funding will support KARA’s FinLit program; financial literacy designed for at-risk and underserved youth. FinLit is designed for people impacted by childhood trauma, poverty, systemic neglect, and abuse.
- Rosemount High School's, whose business education department will use the IF funding to incorporate financial literacy games from Breakout EDU into their Personal Money Management courses. Their goal is to financially educate students to be informed financial decision-makers.
"We are so proud of the work our grant recipients do to strengthen our communities," said Bob Groven, InSPIREation Foundation chair. "We are excited to support these projects."