FoolProof Academy

Financial Literacy and Consumer Life Skills Taught by Young People

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FoolProof and Troutwood create a path for every student to graduate with a working financial plan.

FoolProof is excited to have Troutwood as a strategic resource partner. Troutwood provides teachers and students the technology to learn and create a financial plan for life.

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Your kids are being influenced by marketers at younger and younger ages. FoolProof helps your children develop critical thinking skills.

Money Horror Stories

Ripped Off or Scammed?


Have you ever been ripped off or scammed...? Fell for a sales pitch that hurt you? Racked up enormous debt (without knowing it)?

Your experience can help others (and help yourself too)!

In this section, we feature real life stories from people who've been hurt financially, in any consumer transaction, and that have been willing to share their stories, so others (you, perhaps!) won't step in the same trap.

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Impulse Buying

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How many impulse buys are you making?

You'll probably make 40,000 impulse buying decisions in your lifetime.

This section shows you how to recognize the "traps" that lead you to those decisions.

The three impulse buying traps:

  1. Confusing "wants" and "needs."
  2. Falling for Advertising.
  3. Believing in Quick Fixes.

You'll save hundreds of thousands of dollars over your lifetime if you learn how to avoid the these traps.

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FoolProof's Hall of Shame gives you info on companies that claimed to love people, but ended up messing with people in some dodgy way instead.


Why Are We Telling You This?

We want to inject you with a big dose of healthy skepticism!

The most honest seller is not going to tell you what's wrong with their product or service. Their job is to sell you, whether it's good for you, or not.

Your job: To stop-and-question anyone who wants to impact your money or your well-being.

A Message from:
Sharon Bush, Stephen Byrd, Cristina Cuomo, Kelly Posner Gerstenhaber, Anne Hearst-McInerney, and Jay McInerney

The Founders of FoolProof New York

Good news: Many New York high school teachers want to teach their kids to be smarter about money.

Bad news: Companies that make money when kids make poor money decisions want to provide the lessons.

The answer: New York teachers need a financial literacy curriculum developed by teachers, not one influenced by marketers.

FoolProof New York can provide that curriculum—with your help.

FoolProof has developed a free financial literacy curriculum that teaches kids what they really need to know about money and the reality of the free enterprise system: If you are going to be smart about money, you must learn to be a skeptic.

Last year, kids across America made over 40 million page views of this curriculum.

And listen to what teachers say:

"Though I review financial-literacy programs each year, it's been a conscious choice to use FoolProof"

Sandra Deiseroth, a business teacher at Horseheads High School in New York
"This is one of the most relevant courses we teach," says John Chargois, a principal at Union Public School in Oklahoma where all 3200 kids are required to go thru FoolProof before graduating.

Already—just by teacher word-of-mouth—360 New York schools have registered for FoolProof. We need to register and service thousands.

What We Need to Succeed

It will cost us $100,000 a year to both reach all teachers in the state and update and maintain our curriculum and teacher support tools.

You can help us reach that goal by donating $2,500 to $15,000 a year for four years to the FoolProof Foundation.

Your donation also puts you on the FoolProof New York Committee. But don't worry: you don't have to attend any meetings! Your name will appear on the FoolProof New York website along with ours.

What to Do Now

Watch the video below or read up on the "Walter Cronkite Project" here.

Walter Cronkite was personally involved in the founding of FoolProof. He provided FoolProof with its mantra: "Use caution. Question sellers. Rely on Research."

Don't New York kids need to base their financial lives on that mantra?

Donate, or contact us today.

FoolProof & Walter Cronkite

"The FoolProof Foundation believes there is a fundamental flaw in the teaching of financial literacy."

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