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Pockets Change, Non-Profit

Using hip-hop pedagogy to teach financial education to students, educators, and communities! 🎤🤝

Pockets Change is a hybrid organization (s-corp and non-profit 501c3) working with K-12 districts, colleges, and other community organizations across the country. 📚 Our mission is to build intergenerational financial resilience with students, families, and educators. We believe financial education is about much more than numbers, it’s a means for self-care and social justice. It all happens through Hip Hop pedagogy, which focuses on understanding self-identity in relation to the whole. Together we are working to address systemic issues of educational equity and the racial wealth divide.

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✏️ Do You Believe that Money Changes People? | #MAKINGCENTS

Save the calmest for last...isn't that what they say, Reader? The #makecents series is nearly finished and hopefully we have provided all of you with the proper resources to ace this back-to-school season! Before we end the series, we have one more money personality to share – The Money Monk! Money Monks live by the zen "Money Changes People" mantra! Other money monks you may be familiar with include: Max Mayfield from "Stranger Things" 🚲👾🧇 View the MP Guide! Mr. Johnson from "Abbott...

7 months ago • 1 min read

💭 IMAGINE THIS: Either you're a parent spending money on your kids or a teacher spending money on your classroom. The school year is starting soon and as you wind down from the summer, you realize something – you don't have any school supplies whatsoever! If you find yourself in this situation and you're able to thrive in the chaos, you just may have the Contemplator money personality! Other Contemplators that live by the "I'll Take Care of it Tomorrow" motto include: Eleven from "Stranger...

7 months ago • 1 min read

Time is ticking to #MAKECENTS of the back-to-school season! ⏰ Tick–Tock–Tick–Tock! The ticking sound of the clock is the least of worries for Paper Cha$ers who live by the "More Money, NO Problems" mantra! If you took our money personality test and ended up with the Paper Cha$er personality, you're money habits are most like: Toph Beifong from "Avatar: The Last Airbender" 🟢🪨🌍 View the MP Guide! Ava Coleman from "Abbott Elementary" 📚🍎✏️ View the MP Guide! "More Money, NO Problems" Paper...

7 months ago • 1 min read

If you hear the phrase "More Money..." and finish with "More Problems," you most likely have The Complicator money personality! Unfamiliar with money personalities? Take the test to learn what your own money personality is ⬇️ AM I A COMPLICATOR? To #makecents of The Complicators during this back-to-school series, it’s important to understand the kind of spender Complicators are. For familiarity’s sake, you’re money personality is similar to: Janine from "Abbott Elementary" 📚🍎✏️ View the MP...

7 months ago • 1 min read

If you had an unlimited budget for this back-to-school season, what would you buy? Everything? Nothing? Whether a teacher with a classroom budget or a parent with a list of expenses for each child, your response is vital to determining the kind of spender you are! This back-to-school season, we encourage you to #makecents of this time of year by learning more about your money personality! WHAT'S A MONEY PERSONALITY? Your money personality (MP) is the result of all your spending, buying, and...

8 months ago • 1 min read

KEEP VOTING FOR OUR STUDENTS! Support K0RE and Magical Rock Band to be America's Next Top Hitmaker! Learn more about the Hip-Hop FinFe$t Vol. 3 winner and how to support her in the competition! VOTE K0RE 🌟 Learn more about the Hip-Hop FinFe$t Vol. 3 finalist and how to support them in the competition! VOTE MRB 🌟 🚨 ROUND 2 VOTING ENDS THURSDAY, JULY 18, at 7 PM (PDT) 🚨 "AN INSPIRING 2-DAY EVENT" – Pockets Change at the 18th annual Texas Bankers Financial Literacy Summit Image Provided by Libby...

9 months ago • 1 min read