Our Partners

Aims Community College
www.aims.edu
Aims Community College offers more than 130 degree and certificate programs on campuses in Greeley, Fort Lupton and Loveland, and about 4,000 day, evening, weekend and online courses annually.  Whatever the goal from starting a degree to finishing one, learning an occupation to securing one, a career boost to a career change, a hobby to a life skill, students receive personal attention from supportive, professional faculty and staff.

Arapahoe Credit Union
www.arapahoecu.org
Arapahoe Credit Union believes fostering financial literacy can build a strong foundation that will provide our members a lifetime of successful and responsible financial skills. We have developed a national award winning financial education program designed to accommodate any age group ranging from adolescence through adulthood.  Our Education Program uses various tools and resources to engage and interact with the audience. Our focus is to ensure our members have the full support to develop the financial knowledge necessary to handle real life situations.

AVID
www.avid.org
AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) is a college-readiness system designed to increase the number of students who enroll in four-year colleges. Although AVID serves all students, it focuses on the least served students in the academic middle. The formula is simple – raise expectations of students and, with the AVID support system in place, they will rise to the challenge.

College Assist
www.college-assist.com
College Assist, a national guarantee agency in the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP), is dedicated to helping students, parents and schools navigate college financing, from start to finish, quickly and easily. We offer products, services and solutions—in short, all the tools you need to complete your college financing. We are large enough to accommodate all your needs, yet small enough to give you the individual attention you deserve! College Assist is proud of its more than 30 years of service to students. We have helped more than one million students achieve their educational goals.

College In Colorado
www.collegeincolorado.org
Colorado ranks in the top five states nationwide for the greatest number of degree holders per capita, yet only one in five Colorado ninth-grade students will earn a college degree, ranking the state in the bottom quartile nationally. The State of Colorado initiated College In Colorado as a statewide effort to improve college access and change expectations about college for all Colorado students. A cornerstone of the campaign, CollegeInColorado.org, offers a one stop resource to help students and parents plan, apply and pay for college.

College In Colorado Outreach and Access Team
www.educationcents.org/collegeaccess
The College In Colorado Outreach and Access Team helps Colorado families break down the financial barriers to college. As a part of College In Colorado, their team canvases Colorado giving more than 700 financial aid, scholarship, FAFSA and financial education workshops annually. The team is funded by a Federal College Access Challenge Grant.

Free services and materials offered by the College In Colorado Outreach and Access Team:

  • FAFSA Workshops
  • Financial Education Workshops
  • General Scholarship Presentations
  • Financial Aid Presentations
  • How to Pay for College Workshops
  • Financial Literacy and Debt Management Presentations

Colorado Career and Technical Education (CTE)
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Ensuring a thriving Colorado economy by providing relevant and rigorous education that is connected, responsive and real, Colorado CTE delivers proven pathways to lifelong career success. The overall goal of CTE is to provide quality educational programs emphasizing core academic content, Postsecondary & Workforce Readiness (PWR) competencies, technical skills, and seamless transition to further education or employment and better prepare students, including special populations.

Colorado Council for Economic Education

www.ccee.net
The mission of the Colorado Council for Economic Education (CCEE) is to meet this need by promoting and improving economic literacy in Colorado’s schools. The most effective way to provide economic education to the largest number of students is to enhance the knowledge of their teachers. The Colorado Council for Economic Education accomplishes its mission by offering a wide variety of economics classes for teachers and  providing teachers with numerous economic education curriculum resources for their classroom. 

The Colorado Jump$tart Coalition
www.cojumpstart.org
The Colorado Jump$tart Coalition is a nonprofit organization with more than 30 organizations and individuals representing business, government and education throughout the state of Colorado. The coalition has joined together to improve the personal financial literacy of Colorado youth by:

  • Raising awareness of personal financial literacy.
  • Enhancing professional development of Colorado educators on financial literacy issues.
  • Coordinating and promoting communication and cooperation among coalition members.
  • Supporting personal financial education legislation.

Community Credit Counseling Services
www.community-credit.org
A local (Denver area) non-profit organization dedicated to providing financial education and credit counseling to residents of Colorado with a mission of helping individuals and families achieve economic stability and financial self-sufficiency.

The Council for Economic Education
www.councilforeconed.org
The Council for Economic Education offers comprehensive, best-in-class K-12 economic and personal finance education programs, including the basics of entrepreneurship, consisting of teaching resources across the curriculum, professional development for teachers, and nationally-normed assessment instruments. Each year, the Council's programs reach more than 150,000 K-12 teachers and over 15 million students in the United States and in more than 30 other countries. These programs are delivered through a diversified system: directly from the Council, through a network of affiliated state Councils and university-based Centers for Economic Education, and through other partner organizations.

Denver Community Credit Union
www.denvercommunity.coop
Denver Community Credit Union's mission is to make a difference in people’s lives by providing financial opportunity. Denver Community Credit Union is a not-for-profit financial cooperative serving Denver since 1934. Anyone that lives, works, worships, volunteers, or attends school in the City & County of Denver can be a member. Membership is also open to the families of members and businesses in the City & County of Denver.

Diversified Animated Technologies Associates, Inc. (DATA, Inc.)

www.datausa.com
DATA specializes in Web application software and digital visual media: Website development and design with full e-commerce applications, 3D-computer modeling and animation, and multimedia design and development (CD and DVD). We build databases and Content Management Systems, enterprise level Web application software, on-line training programs and offer complete video/audio production and streaming.

Denver Scholarship Foundation
www.denverscholarship.org
The Denver Scholarship Foundation, a 501(c)(3)Public Charity, inspires and empowers Denver Public School students to achieve their post-secondary goals by providing the tools, knowledge and financial resources essential for success.

Financial Planning Association of Colorado
www.cofpa.org
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) of Colorado is a statewide, non-profit, professional association of Certified Financial Planners™ licensees and individuals who champion the financial planning process, which operates under the charter of the Financial Planning Association.  It is the membership organization for the financial planning community. Members include individuals and companies who have contributed to building the financial planning profession and all those who champion the financial planning process. Financial Planning Association members are dedicated to supporting the financial planning process in order to help people achieve their goals and dreams. The FPA believes that everyone needs objective advice to make smart financial decisions and that, when seeking the advice of a financial planner, the planner should be a Certified Financial Planner™ licensee.

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Denver Branch
www.kc.frb.org
The Federal Reserve System was created in 1913 following an era marked by financial panics and economic depressions. Its principal goal then was economic stability. This goal is still important today, along with current objectives such as stable prices, high employment, and economic growth. The mission of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City is to contribute to the development of monetary policy and foster the stability, integrity, and efficiency of the financial and payments systems so as to promote optimal economic performance.  In addition to working toward these aims through its conduct of monetary policy, the Federal Reserve is a bank for banks, a bank for the U.S. government, and a supervisor and regulator of banks.  The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City offers educational resources on its site at www.federalreserveeducation.org/FRED.

Insurance Information Institute
www.iii.org
The mission of the Insurance Information Institute (I.I.I.) is to improve public understanding of insurance -- what it does and how it works. For more than 40 years, the I.I.I. has provided definitive insurance information.  Today, the I.I.I. is recognized by the media, governments, regulatory organizations, universities and the public as a primary source of information, analysis and referral concerning insurance.

University of Colorado Boulder
www.colorado.edu
As the flagship university of the state of Colorado, CU-Boulder is a dynamic community of scholars and learners situated on one of the most spectacular college campuses in the country. As one of 34 U.S. public institutions belonging to the prestigious Association of American Universities (AAU) — and the only member in the Rocky Mountain region — we have a proud tradition of academic excellence, with four Nobel laureates and more than 50 members of prestigious academic academies. Today, with our sights set on becoming the standard for the great comprehensive public research universities of the new century, we strive to serve the people of Colorado and to engage with the world through excellence in our teaching, research, creative work, and service.

University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
www.uccs.edu
The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs provides unsurpassed, student-centered teaching and learning and outstanding research and creative work that serve our community, state, and nation, and result in our recognition as the premier comprehensive, regional research university in the United States. We empower students to realize their academic goals, develop their career options and provide access to information regarding campus resources.

Weld Schools Credit Union
www.weldschoolscu.com
Weld Schools Credit Union is a full-service, not-for-profit financial cooperative owned by its members.  In operation since 1936, WSCU offers a complete range of financial services to its members including auto loans and checking accounts. WSCU focuses on maintaining a "people helping people" philosophy and membership is open to all Colorado residents.