Economic Empowerment

Dollars
& $ense

A national financial literacy program of 100 Black Men of America, delivered locally in partnership with the University of Indianapolis.

Audience
High school students
Cadence
15-week program · Saturday mornings
Partner
In partnership with the University of Indianapolis
Dollars & $ense

01

Foundations

Budgeting, saving, credit, debt—the basics that schools rarely teach well and families don't always have the bandwidth to cover.

02

Investing

Students study stocks, bonds, ETFs, and portfolio construction—then defend their picks in a final project.

03

Practice

Through the Wells Fargo Junior Investment game, students manage a $100,000 hypothetical portfolio under real market conditions.

About the program

The work, up close.

Dollars & $ense is The 100's flagship financial literacy program—a 15-week curriculum delivered Saturday mornings in partnership with the University of Indianapolis.

Students don't just learn the vocabulary of money. They learn to make decisions with it, defend them, lose on them, and come back the next week sharper.

Many graduates of the program open their first investment accounts before they finish high school. Some go on to teach what they learned to younger siblings, cousins, and peers. That is the long game Dollars & $ense is playing.

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