InCharge Education Foundation Develops Web Portal for High School Personal Finance Program

June 15, 2004 - ICEF completed development of a new online resource to complement the NEFE High School Financial Planning Program (HSFPP) for the National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE). The Web portal, called the NEFE High School Campus, includes a variety of financial planning educational resources for high school students and teachers. To date, the HSFPP has provided more than 3.5 million students with basic personal finance education. The curriculum, provided as a public service, teaches students to set financial goals, use credit wisely, develop a spending plan, save and invest efficiently, make positive career choices and protect their assets against risk as they begin to build net worth.

Headquartered in Orlando, Florida, InCharge^® Institute of America, Inc. is a national non-profit organization specializing in personal finance education and credit counseling. The InCharge Institute family includes InCharge^® Education Foundation, which publishes YOUNG MONEY^® magazine and Military Money^™ magazine and offers basic financial management education to clients and the general public, and InCharge^® Debt Solutions, which provides professional credit counseling and financial education services. InCharge is a member of the Association of Independent Consumer Credit Counseling Agencies (AICCCA).