Grants Promote Financial Education FINRA

The mission of the FINRA Investor Education Foundation is to provide underserved Americans with the knowledge, skills, and tools necessary for financial success throughout life. The Foundation's General Grant Program supports innovative research and educational projects that help investors better understand the markets and the basic principles of saving and investing. Currently the Foundation is especially interested in applications that focus on the following areas: creating new marketing and distribution channels for financial and investor education, helping Americans manage their finances and investments in retirement, meeting the financial and investor education needs of underserved audiences, using behavioral finance to improve saving and investing, and improving investor protection. Project Concept Forms may be submitted at any time. Detailed grant guidelines are available on the Foundation's website.

The Foundation seeks to fund projects that advance its mission through:

• Educational projects or programs. Funding is for programs that respond to an unmet investor education or protection need for a target audience.
• Research. Funding is for research that expands the body of knowledge and offers solutions in the field of investor education and protection.
• Combination of research and educational program. Funding is for initiatives that lead with a research element and follow with a high-impact investor education or investor protection project based upon the results of the research.

There is no set minimum or maximum grant amount. In considering grant requests, the merits of the proposed project are the primary focus.

For more information: http://www.finrafoundation.org/grants/general/guidelines/