Free · In person · No sign-up
Scams are getting better.
So are we.
High school students teach short, plain-English classes on money, the internet, and the scams built to target older adults. We come to your library, senior center, or church. It costs nothing.
- Cost
- Free
- Format
- In person
- Sign-up
- None
What we teach
Four subjects, explained the way you would explain them to your own grandparents
Book all four or just the one your group keeps asking about. Every session is built around questions people actually have.
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Spotting scams
The calls, texts, and emails built to target older people — what each one sounds like, and the one or two details that give it away every time.
- The "grandchild in trouble" call
- Fake bank and fraud-department calls
- Tech support pop-ups
- IRS, Social Security, and Medicare impersonation
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Staying safe online
For anyone who uses a phone, tablet, or computer and would like to feel less nervous about it.
- Passwords that are strong and memorable
- Why a real bank never asks for your code
- Checking a link before you tap it
- Public wifi, updates, and why they matter
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Everyday money
The practical side of managing money on a fixed income, with nothing to sign up for at the end.
- Reading a statement and spotting a charge
- Online and mobile banking, safely
- Alerts for unusual activity
- Who to call first when something looks wrong
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Making sense of modern investing
Plain explanations of the things that get talked about constantly and explained rarely. We explain how they work. We never tell anyone what to do.
- What ETFs, index funds, and CDs actually are
- What cryptocurrency is, and why it is volatile
- What "robo-advisers" and AI tools do
- Why higher return always means higher risk
What it actually looks like
A room, some chairs, and an hour
No stage, no sales table, no clipboard at the door. Small groups work best, because people ask more questions.
We will never ask you for money or account details
Our classes are free. We do not sell anything, we do not collect donations, and we will never ask anyone who attends for a bank account number, a card number, a Social Security number, or a password.
If someone contacts you claiming to be from Future Finance for Seniors and asks for money or account details, it is not us. Please tell us at Oliver.futurefinance@gmail.com.
For host sites
A room with a screen, and about an hour. We bring the rest.
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Email us
One address, one message. Tell us where you are and roughly how many people you expect.
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We match you to a chapter
We put you in touch with the student team that covers your area.
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You pick the topics
One subject in depth, or a lighter pass across several. We build the session around your group.
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We turn up and run it
You provide a room, chairs and a screen we can plug into. We bring the laptop and the slides. There is no cost at any point.
Who this is for
Four different people end up here
You run a group or a venue
Libraries, senior centers, community centers, churches, residents' associations. Booking takes one email.
You are looking out for a parent
If you are worried about an older relative getting caught by a scam, our plain-English guide is a good place to start. Print it and leave it with them.
You are a student who wants to help
You do not need to be a finance expert. We train you, and you teach alongside other students from your area.
You want to come to a class
Sessions are free and open to anyone. Find out whether we have a chapter near you and we will point you to the next one.
Why we are called this
Money moved onto a screen.
Not everyone was given the manual.
Finance already changed
Statements, transfers, benefits, prescriptions, tax. The branch closed and the app replaced it. That shift happened quickly, and nobody sent instructions to the people it happened to.
The scams changed with it
Criminals moved onto the same screens. A fake bank text now looks exactly like a real one, a cloned voice sounds like family, and payment in crypto or gift cards is gone the moment it is sent.
So we teach forward, not backward
We are not here to tell anyone to avoid the internet or stick to cash. We are here so that the tools everyone now has to use are understood rather than feared — including the newest ones.
The people who grew up inside this stuff are teenagers. That turns out to be a genuinely useful thing to be able to give away. So the name is meant literally: we teach the finance people are actually going to be living with.
Where we are
6 chapters, each run by students who live there
- Gunter / Frisco / North Dallas TX
- Plano / Richardson / Carrollton / The Colony TX
- McKinney / Frisco TX
- Little Rock AR
- Omaha NE
- Chandler / East Valley AZ
Not on the list? Email Oliver.futurefinance@gmail.com . It is how we decide where to start next.
Students: come and teach
If you are in high school and you want to run sessions in your town, we will show you how. There is no chapter too small to start.