Welcome to FoolProof DC
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What's the Problem FoolProof Is Trying to Fix?
Those 32,000 kids in poverty in DC? They aren't taught to be critical thinkers when it comes to decisions impacting their money or their well-being.
Young people are taught to impulsively make decisions, virtually every minute of their waking day.
It's called marketing.
We all live in a world driven by marketing. But FoolProof believes kids are unfairly impacted by marketers—and kids in poverty are hurt even more by this.
FoolProof Empowers Kids to Think Critically, Not Impulsively
We provide schools and mentors a free web-driven curriculum that lets young people learn from young people.
Our messaging is realistic, but always upbeat. Like this!
Is FoolProof's Stuff Any Good?
That is the question FoolProof wants to ask all middle and high school students in DC.
Starting this September FoolProof wants to give ever middle and high school student a chance to grade us.
We want the students to tell us if our resources are valuable to them.
We want every teacher to grade us, too.
And if we past those tests, we are hoping FoolProof's middle and high school curriculums will be taught in every middle and high school in our nation's capital.
What Do Experts Think of FoolProof
Thousands of teachers nationally already use us. And most major consumer leaders endorse us.
Like Michelle Singletary:
"At a time when there is so much misinformation about personal finance and a push to make young adults debtors earlier and earlier, we need an educational program like FoolProof. That's why I strongly support FoolProof DC. Students need to be equipped to become smarter consumers and they will benefit from this program."
Michelle Singletary
Syndicated Columnist,
The Washington Post
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How You Can Help FoolProof DC Happen
Do you have volunteer time on your hands? Join the FoolProof DC Support Group!
Do you or your friends have connections to DC schools? A teacher? A school board member? A superintendent, or head of a curriculum department? Would you introduce us?
Do you have friends in local PTA groups or other community-based groups focused on the well-being of underserved kids and their families? Would you introduce us?
Do you or your friends have media contacts? Please introduce us.
Would you be interested in helping us underwrite FoolProof DC? All our resources are free. But FoolProof DC will have a yearly cost of about $50,000. We're looking for patrons and sponsors to help FoolProof with that. We are a 501(c)(3) charity.
And will you forward a link to this page to your friends? Now!
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Please tell us about your interest.
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Who's Coordinating FoolProof DC?
Dr. Lennette Coleman
President of the FoolProof Foundation and Team Leader for FoolProof DC
Mike Sheffer
FoolProof's Director of Education, is leading teacher contact
Joseph Archibald Bowers
Host of FoolProof's "Joey's Gist," is spearheading our student contact and communication
In DC
FoolProof's Working Committee includes Joan Claybrook, Bert Foer, Mary Anne Stanton, Roberta Baskin, Harold Thomas, and Edward Cohen.
Resources
Learn more about the FoolProof Foundation:
www.foolprooffoundation.org
Walter Cronkite is the reason FoolProof exists. Learn the story here:
www.cronkiteproject.org
The Kids in Poverty story, in full:
www.kidsinpoverty.org
Check out our Middle School curriculum:
www.foolproofmiddleschool.org
Check out our High School curriculum:
www.foolproofhighschool.org
Check out FoolProof's other resources for kids and their parents:
www.foolproofme.org
Learn a key reason kids currently aren't taught the skills of healthy skepticism and caution:
The financial literacy industrial complex from AXIOS.