Partner with NBEA: A Gateway to Meaningful Corporate Responsibility and Personal Finance Education

At the National Business Education Association (NBEA), we champion the transformative force of education. Our core mission revolves around empowering both educators and students to attain excellence in the realm of business. Today, we are thrilled to unveil an innovative initiative designed to forge partnerships between influential corporations or non-profits and NBEA. Through this collaboration, we aim to bridge the gap between organizations and the pressing educational needs of students and teachers alike.

What Do Teachers Need?

Educational research underscores the pivotal role of personal finance instruction in shaping students' ability to make responsible financial decisions throughout their lives. According to a recent report by consulting firm Tyton Partners and Next Gen Personal Finance, completing a one-semester course in personal finance can yield a lifetime benefit of roughly $100,000 per student. This underscores the profound impact of financial literacy education.

NBEA's approach to personal finance education is distinct and taken from the perspective of the teacher. While a plethora of personal finance curricula exists for teachers, what remains lacking are high-quality, targeted learning modules and activities on specific topics such as insurance, real estate, banking, payroll and more.

Teachers don't require more generalized curriculum; rather, they seek versatile learning tools that can seamlessly integrate into their existing curriculum. NBEA teachers have identified immediate needs in their classrooms, ranging from online learning modules to engaging assessments, particularly in key areas such as:

• Banking  - Concepts like commercial banking, investment banking, CDs, role of the Fed, and more. Simultaneously students can prepare for potential careers in banking recognizing your brand in the process.
  
  
• Payroll - Engaging lessons and simulations about how payroll works including deductions, taxes, and more. Every student should make sense of their first paycheck stub.
  
  
• Insurance - From renters' insurance to life insurance, students need a quality understanding of how insurance affects them.
  
  
• Real Estate - Real estate is consistently one of the biggest purchases a person will make in their lifetime, students need increased knowledge to make quality decisions about how to purchase and sell real estate real estate.

Why Partner with NBEA?

NBEA offers:

• Tailored Educational Solutions Targeted on Specific Educational Needs: NBEA works with top tier educational developers to create custom educational tools that address current business trends and educational needs with a direct connection to the middle school to post-secondary business classrooms.
  
  
• Recognition and Visibility: Your brand will be recognized as a key contributor in our campaigns, events, and educational materials, gaining positive visibility among educators and students alike.
  
  
• Connection with Educators: Through NBEA, we offer a direct channel to engage with business teachers and schools, ensuring that your contributions make a tangible difference.
  
  
• Business teachers are asking for help to develop engaging educational tools that help them teach in-depth concepts associated with financial literacy. Teachers do not have the resources to develop the educational tools they need (simulations, videos, creative learning modules, and more).  So teachers know what they need, now they need your help funding the specific tools they can use to help their students.
  
  
• NBEA is a trusted non-profit organization of more than 13,500 business teachers that has affected business education for more than a century. NBEA teachers inspire and work  with more than a million students every year.
  
  
• Enhanced Corporate Responsibility Scores: Your collaboration with us directly boosts your corporate responsibility profile. By investing in education, you're not just meeting your CSR objectives; you're shaping a brighter future.
  
  
• Direct Impact on Education: Partner with NBEA to develop cutting-edge educational tools that will be used by thousands of students and educators. These resources, funded by your generous sponsorship, will be instrumental in helping students and teachers grasp critical business concepts.
  
  
• Visible and Measurable Commitment to Education: Your support will be publicly acknowledged, showcasing your organization's commitment to educational excellence and community development.

NBEA partners with top educational instructional designers and developers to create tools teachers use in the classroom with your organizations branding prevalent. NBEA also offers scholarships for students and teacher professional development for each program has funding allows. 

Your Organization's Impact

Your organization's partnership with NBEA enables us to:

• Equip business teachers with innovative teaching tools and resources they directly use in their classroom.
• Enhance the quality of business education, preparing students for the challenges of tomorrow.
• Foster a generation of well-informed, responsible business professionals.
• Provide scholarships that engage students, teachers, and generation of business leaders.

How Much Support Does NBEA Need to Help?

It depends on the scope of resources available from the partner.  For example, a comprehensive program that provides teaching resources, scholarships, teaching aids, competitive competition with the nation's largest student organizations and more could cost over a million dollars.   While, providing a few learning modules that assist teachers and are made available to students free could be offered for far less. The best course is set a range of resources available and the frequency of the grants. Then NBEA and the partner can determine the best course and prescription for making the biggest impact.

Who Has NBEA Partnered With? A Success Story

In 2022, Discover Financial Services, Inc provided a generous five year grant to develop outstanding teaching resources for students in personal finance courses.  NBEA promotes the program and increases the impact by introducing these free materials to teachers for integration into the courses.  NBEA's partner in the development of the tools was Discovery Education whose knowledge of instructional design and unbounded creativity developed simulations, learning modules, teachers' guides, videos and more  that assist teachers in offering standards based learning opportunities in a creative and fun way, all at no cost to the school or students.

NBEA seeks to expand our partnerships into more in-depth areas of the personal finance curriculum and serve teachers with that they need and are asking for. The impact of the program has resulted in tens of thousands of students learning more about how to manage their money and other areas of personal finance.  The program home page can be found at https://nbea.org/pathway

About NBEA

• The National Business Education Association
  1908 Association Drive, Suite B
  Reston, Virginia, 20191
  EIN: 52-0886073

• Contact: Joe McClary, CAE, Executive Director, Jmcclary@nbea.org

• NBEA's purpose/mission: Empowering Educators to Achieve Excellence in Business Education
  The National Business Education Association (NBEA) is the nation's leading professional organization devoted exclusively to serving individuals and groups engaged in instruction, administration, research, and dissemination of information for and about business.   

• NBEA serves approximately 13,500 educators including paid members and guests who are middle-school, secondary and post-secondary educators that teach business and related-topics.
  

• Our teachers directly connect with more than a million students every year.

• NBEA serves educators from public and private schools.

• Grants received go toward funding the educational resources NBEA makes available to its teachers and their students.

• Results  and impact of NBEA's programs are measured by a number of quantitative and qualitative assessments.  From tracking usage of electronic program materials, to teacher focus groups that help design and improve the program, measuring impact is a the center of every project.

• Proof of 501(c)(3) status, most recent audited financial statements, and current year operating budget is available upon request.