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Money Skills for Real Life: Gear Up College was prepared specifically
for the NCCEP, National Council for Community and Education Partnerships,
as a public service by the Denver-based National Endowment for Financial
Education® (NEFE®); Theodore (Ted) Beck, President and CEO; Brent
A. Neiser, CFP, Director of Collaborative Programs; and Mary J. Schultz,
Project Manager of Collaborative Programs.
The National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE)
is an independent nonprofit organization committed to educating
Americans about personal finance and empowering them to make
positive, sound decisions to reach their financial goals.
The National Endowment for Financial Education, NEFE, and
the NEFE logo are federally registered service marks of the
National Endowment for Financial Education. For more information
about the National Endowment for Financial Education, visit www.nefe.org.
Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate
Programs (GEAR UP) is a federal grant program that
provides six-year grants to education/community partnerships
and states to increase the number of low-income students
who are prepared to enter and succeed in postsecondary education.
Serving an entire cohort of students beginning no later than
the seventh grade, GEAR UP provides services at high-poverty
middle and high schools and college scholarships to low-income
students. For more information about GEAR UP, please view
the U.S.
Department of Education GEAR UP website.
The National Council for Community and Education
Partnerships' (NCCEP) mission is to develop and
strengthen broadbased partnerships throughout the education
continuum, from early childhood through postsecondary education.
NCCEP seeks to help improve public K–16 education by
creating education/community partnerships, linking schools
and communities, developing new research-based college access
programs, and supporting the implementation of proven educational
strategies. For more information,
please visit http://www.edpartnerships.org.
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