Invest in Their Future

Financial literacy should begin before financial mistakes do. Your support helps InvestEd bring engaging, hands-on financial education directly into elementary school classrooms, giving students the knowledge and confidence to save, budget, invest, and make thoughtful financial decisions.

Every contribution helps provide classroom instruction, student workbooks, interactive activities, participation in The Stock Market Game, InvestWrite essay opportunities, and student awards and recognition.

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Choose Your Level of Impact

Businesses, organizations, and community members can make a larger impact by sponsoring InvestEd programming, classroom instruction, or essential student materials. Every sponsorship includes advertising in the InvestEd student workbooks that students use in class and take home to share with their families. InvestEd expects to distribute approximately 450 student workbooks during the fall semester and another 300+ during the spring semester.

School Sponsor – $5000

Helps bring InvestEd programming to an entire school community.

School Sponsors receive:

  • Recognition as an official InvestEd School Sponsor
  • A sponsor recognition banner displayed at the supported school, subject to school and district approval
  • A full-page advertisement in InvestEd student workbooks
  • Logo recognition on the InvestEd website
  • Social-media recognition
  • Recognition in applicable press releases and program announcements
  • An invitation to attend an applicable student celebration or awards event
  • A program update highlighting the students and classrooms supported

Classroom Sponsor — $1,500

Provides the complete ten-week InvestEd experience for one classroom, including instruction, student workbooks, classroom activities, investment simulations, essay participation, and student recognition.

Classroom Sponsors receive :

  • Recognition as an official InvestEd Classroom Sponsor
  • A half-page advertisement in InvestEd student workbooks
  • Logo recognition on the InvestEd website
  • Social-media recognition
  • An invitation to attend an applicable student celebration or awards event
  • A program update highlighting the students and classrooms supported

Community Partner — $500

Helps provide student workbooks, classroom supplies, program prizes, awards, and enrichment activities.

Community Partners receive :

  • Recognition as an InvestEd Community Partner
  • A quarter-page advertisement in InvestEd student workbooks
  • Social-media recognition
  • Logo recognition on the InvestEd websiteSocial-media recognition
  • A classroom or program impact update

Contact Us About Sponsorship

Support a Local School

Sponsors may request that their contribution support InvestEd programming at a specific local school.

Current and prospective InvestEd school communities include:

  • Kettering Elementary
  • Lowell Elementary
  • Naples Elementary
  • Willard Elementary
  • Rancho Vista Elementary
  • Longfellow Elementary
  • Edison Elementary
  • Mann Elementary
  • Los Cerritos Elementary
  • Alvarado Elementary

School availability depends on program scheduling, school approval, funding needs, and classroom participation. If your selected school is already fully funded or is not yet able to participate, InvestEd will contact you to discuss another school or classroom.

Don’t See Your School Listed?

You may request another elementary school in Long Beach or the surrounding community. InvestEd will contact the school to determine interest, availability, and program eligibility.

To recommend a school, please include:

  • School name
  • City
  • Principal or teacher contact, if known
  • Your relationship to the school
  • Whether you are interested in sponsoring a classroom or an entire school

Customized Partnerships

We also welcome:

  • Multi-classroom sponsorships
  • Employee matching campaigns
  • Corporate and foundation partnerships
  • In-kind donations
  • Customized community-impact partnerships

Contact Mechelle Maier at Mechelle@InvestEdFinancialLiteracy.org or (714) 293-1891 to discuss sponsorship opportunities.

Reach Students and Families Across Our Community

InvestEd expects to distribute approximately 450 student workbooks during the fall semester and another 300 during the spring semester. Each workbook is used throughout the ten-week program and taken home by the student, giving sponsors meaningful, repeated exposure to students and their families.

All advertisements must be appropriate for elementary-school audiences and are subject to InvestEd approval. Sponsors will be provided with artwork specifications and submission deadlines after their sponsorship is confirmed.

To request an invoice or discuss a school, classroom, or customized sponsorship, contact Mechelle Maier at Mechelle@InvestEdFinancialLiteracy.org or (714) 293-1891.

Prefer to Donate by Check?

Please make checks payable to InvestEd and mail them to:

InvestEd: Financial Literacy for the Future
502 Margo Ave.
Long Beach, CA
90803

Please include your name, email address, and the words “Donation,” “Community Partner,” “Classroom Sponsor,” or “School Sponsor” in the memo or accompanying note.

InvestEd is a tax-exempt nonprofit organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. No goods or services are provided in exchange for a charitable contribution unless specifically stated. EIN: 99-4907744